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The ABCs of ABC – D
D is for… Drac Half dragon, half goblin, all shapeshifting mischief-maker, the Drac lives in the waterways of France. It has a tendency to abduct human girls to serve as wet nurses in its underwater...
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Ruggiero Delivering Angelica by Arnold Böcklin (1873). Just look at that orc! It’s got to be the prettiest fine art dragon ever painted. I love how it seems unfazed by the knight trotting up, and even...
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Good evening then, reader friend… till tomorrow J. J. Grandville, La Vie Privée des Animaux
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The ABCs of ABC – E
E is for… Emela-ntouka The Emela-ntouka is a big one-horned creature with a heavy crocodilian tail. It is also a surviving ceratopsian dinosaur because there’s no way sub-Saharan people could come up...
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The ABCs of ABC – F
F is for… Feiyi One variety of Feiyi-snake catalogued in the Shan Hai Jing has six legs and four wings, and is an omen of drought. Maybe it’s a grasshopper or locust? After all, those show up in warm...
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The ball was then interrupted by a great vocal and instrumental concert. J. J. Grandville – La Vie Privee des Animaux
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“She danced a saltarello”. [The pun is that saltarello, a dance, sounds like the French sauterelle, “grasshopper”, and both come from the same root meaning “to jump”] Grandville, Scènes de la vie...
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I hope to prove one day that, in the hands of an intelligent magpie, a quill pen has no less value than in the claws of a wolf or the paws of a fox. J. J. Grandville, La vie privée des animaux.
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Further proof that Canada geese are vicious monsters waiting to murder us in our sleep. From the abstract: “… we suspect that this [nest-defense] aggresssion combined with the Brant’s inability to...
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The ABCs of ABC – G
G is for… Guirivilu The Guirivilu hails from Mapuche folklore of Chile and Argentina. An aquatic vulpine creature, it has a long prehensile tail tipped with a vicious hook. It is – of course – a threat...
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The ABCs of ABC – H
H is for… Haüt The Haüt is a grotesque South American monster described by Thevet. It is the size of a large African monkey, with a childlike face. Its paws have long claws shaped like fishbones and...
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The ABCs of ABC – I
I is for… Ieltxu Ieltxu is a Basque spirit that appears as a human, a pig, or a bird shooting flames from its mouth. It is mischievous rather than evil, but that distinction is moot after you’ve spent...
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The ABCs of ABC – J
J is for… Jarjacha The Jarjacha is a long-necked, four-legged nocturnal animal with glowing eyes. It only eats incestuous people. Its mocking call – jar-jar-jar-jar-jar – echoing in the mountains of...
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The ABCs of ABC – K
K is for… Karnabo The bastard offspring of a sorcerer and a ghoul, the Karnabo lives in Regniowez in the Ardennes. It has an elephant’s trunk (capable of a chilling whistle) and lethal basilisk eyes....
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The ABCs of ABC – L
L is for… Lomie Found in the forests of Bohemia, the ill-defined Lomie has a bladder full of boiling hot water under its neck. It blasts and scalds assailants before making its escape.
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The ABCs of ABC – M
M is for… Markupo The Markupo is a Philippine serpent with a red crest, a thorny tongue, a forked tail, and a pleasant singing voice. It exhales a poison of extraordinary deadliness – if the poison is...
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