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Updated: May 21, 2025
From the point of view of symbolism this menagerie is not particularly interesting since these monsters the wyvern, the manicoris, the leoncerote, the tharanda and sea-monk all mean the same thing, and all embody the Spirit of Evil." He took out his watch. "Come," said he, "I have still time enough before dinner to go through the list of real animals." And he turned over his notes on birds.
The leoncerote, offspring of the male hyena and the lioness, having the body of an ass, the legs of a deer, the breast of a wild beast, a camel's head, and armed with terrible fangs; the tharanda, which, according to Hugh of Saint Victor, has the shape of the ox, the profile of the stag, the fur of the bear, and which changes colour like the cameleon; finally, the sea-monk, the most puzzling of all, since Vincent of Beauvais describes it as having its body covered with scales, and it is furnished, in lieu of arms, with fins all over claws, besides having a monk's shaven head ending in the snout of a carp.
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