Bird-beasts – miscellaneous — Mythoi

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Bird-beasts – miscellaneous.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Bird-beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B49

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Aeneid, Book 8
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 1
Australian AboriginalAustralian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales, 27The Borah of Byamee
Literary CrystallizationThe Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake), The [First] Book of Urizen

Within the index

Filed under Bird-beasts.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Bird with crocodile head Flying ape Flying fox

Filed beside it

Bird-horse Griffin. Half lion, half eagle Winged bull Bird-bear Air-going elephant Vasa Mortis. Bird with four heads, middle like a whale, feathers and feet of a griffin Winged camel Flying crustacean. (Cf. B62, B94.)