Beast-like anchorite. Walks on all fours; covered with hair like beast; has horns like beast. (Cf. F521.1.)

Motif

Beast-like anchorite. Walks on all fours; covered with hair like beast; has horns like beast. (Cf. F521.1.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Monstrous persons. · view the constellation · filed as F526.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Williams 17ff., 25.

Within the index

Filed under Person with compound body.

Filed beside it

Typhon. Human down to thighs; coil of vipers below. Dragon heads from his hands. Bigger than mountains Scylla. Breast and face of woman. From flanks has six heads and twelve feet of dogs Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings Men with two faces, three legs, and seven arms (or other such combinations)Cecrops. Body compounded of man and serpent

Travels with

Man covered with hair like animal

wander