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* The peryton is a [[Ascended to Carnivorism|man-eating]] half-bird, half-deer creature from Atlantis that casts a human shadow. For this reason it was believed that it was [[The Shadow Knows|a human soul trapped inside a monstrous body]].
* In a deliberate subversion, 16th-century Italian author Ludovico Ariosto created the ''hippogriff''—a beast that is part griffin and part horse—for his epic ''Orlando Furioso'' as a joke on a line from the Roman poet Virgil which used "when griffins are mated with horses" as a synonym for "impossible" or "never". Although it never was truly "mythological" it is considered so today.
** Hippogriffs have appeared in ''[[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]]'', ''[[Dungeons
** One of Dream's three guards in ''[[The Sandman]]'' is described as a hippogriff but is drawn as a Pegasus-type winged horse.
** Card game ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' also has a hippogriff - a hippo with small fangs and two small wings.
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* The [[Ars Goetia]] portrays many of the demons bound by Ham and Solomon as manifesting in this way. Examples are Zagan and Haagenti (gryphon-winged bulls...although how you're supposed to tell those are gryphon wings and not eagle wings [[Fridge Logic|is anyone's guess]]), Marchosias (she-wolf with a snake's tail and gryphon wings), and Ipos (lion with a goose's feet and head and a hare's tail).
* In German, there's the common term of the ''Eierlegende Wollmilchsau'' or ''egg laying wool-milk-sow'', the holy grail of farmers and by extension any manufacturing business. One animal (or product) that produces absolutely everything and adresses anything the customer might wish for. Some people [http://whichboxmedia.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/coolstory3/eierlegende_wollmilchsau.jpg made pictures of it].
* The worst of all? The Tarasque. It had the head of a lion, the body of a bull, the shell of a tortoise covered in spikes, six bear legs, and the tail of a serpent with a fish's fin. Doesn't much look like its [[Dungeons
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Look at an old ''[[Dungeons
** A few more examples: some were specifically stated to be the result of wizard experiments, some had no origin given.
*** Chimera (1/3 red dragon, 1/3 lion and 1/3 giant goat... yeah, you heard me)
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* Speaks with Monsters answers the question "what do griffons (half-eagle, half-lion) eat?" with pescazelles, half-trout, half-gazelle.
* [[Erfworld]] has the Unipegataurs, which are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Winged centaurs with tiny horns on their foreheads]].
* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', which is explicitly set in a world based on ''[[Dungeons
** In a later strip, Roy questions the existence of a [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|brontosaurus]], and is told that if gryphons can exist, why not an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus?
* ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'' has spider crabs which (unlike [[Real Life]] spider crabs) are giant spiders with crab claws. There's also a brief appearance by deer that have small trees in place of antlers.
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