half-stag

Updated: June 16, 2025

Here he is holding up his arms and cursing in the sea; and here are the two curses: the wrecked ship and the burning of Pendragon Tower." Pendragon shook his head with a kind of venerable amusement. "And how many other things might it not be?" he said. "Don't you know that that sort of half-man, like a half-lion or half-stag, is quite common in heraldry?

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton - The Wisdom of Father Brown