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[demonagerie]

Mâcon - BM - ms. 0001, detail of f. 019. St. Augustine, La Cité de Dieu. Paris, c.1480.

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Details from:
 The Adoration of the Lord, from the Saint-Sever Apocalypse, 1028/72

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The Adoration of the Lord, from the Saint-Sever Apocalypse, 1028/72

[medieval]

Three cats: sleeping, reaching into a bird cage, and lifting a mouse off a nest of eggs.

13th. c. MS. Bodl. 764 

[cavetocanvas]

Carlo Crivelli, St. George and the Dragon, 1490

[medieval]

Jean Thenaud, Introduction to the Cabala, dedicated to King François I.

Bibliothèque de Genève Ms. fr. 167 (crop)

[sibyllaarum]

From Claude Paradin’s Devises heroïques, 1557.

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Page 25 From William Cheselden's Osteographia 1733

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Praying Goblin    Katsushika Hokusai    1835-40

[cavetocanvas]

Paul Delvaux, The Focus Tombs, 1957

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"This is an animal called the YENA, which is accustomed to live in the sepulchers of the dead and to devour their bodies. Its nature is that at one moment it is masculine and at another moment feminine, and hence it is a dirty brute."

From The Book of Beasts 12th Century

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"The PARD is a parti-coloured species, very swift and strongly inclined to bloodshed. It leaps to the kill with a bound."

From The Book of Beasts 12th Century

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"This is called a CROCODRYLLUS from its crocus or saffron colour. It breeds in the River Nile: an animal with four feet, amphibious, generally about thirty feet long, armed with horrible teeth and claws."

From The Book of Beasts 12th Century

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The Creation of the Elements     Flemish Book of Hours       1450

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Dragons      from Johannes Ionstonus's Historiae Natura       1755

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A Hypocrite Kneels Before a Satanic Beast as it Tramples a Saint

French Manuscript         13th Century

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Dragon    from Scenes from the Romances of Alexander     1445