File:Martigora engraving.jpg
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DescriptionMartigora engraving.jpg | "The Manticore, or Martigora was described by Pliny and Aristotle as a creature with the face and ears of a human, with grey eyes and a red body; a tail with a sting like that of a scorpion, and being the size of a lion, and with a lion’s paws, a triple row of teeth and an appetite for human flesh." |
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Source | Jonstonus, Joannes (1678) A description of the nature of four-footed beasts: with their figures engraven in brass |
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