Men with two faces, three legs, and seven arms (or other such combinations) — Mythoi

Motif

Men with two faces, three legs, and seven arms (or other such combinations).

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Monstrous persons. · view the constellation · filed as F526.5

Filed across the traditions

Hindu Keith 41f.

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 Beast-like anchorite. Walks on all fours; covered with hair like beast; has horns like beast. (Cf. F521.1.) Cecrops. Body compounded of man and serpent

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