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Bestiarium Historica
A blog about the weird and interesting things found in old bestiaries and reference books
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bestiariumhistorica · 9 months
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This poem, written by pilot Hubert Griffith and published in a 1942 issue of The RAF Journal in Malta, is one of the earliest known written records of the modern mythology of the Gremlin.
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bestiariumhistorica · 9 months
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Irish King Fergus MacLeide locked in battle with the Sheenach.
From: 'The Frenzied Prince, Heroic Stories of Ancient Ireland', Colum & Pogány, 1943.
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bestiariumhistorica · 9 months
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The entry for ELEPHANT from The Bestiary, a 1960 anthology of translated medieval works, compiled by T.H. White
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