6/16/2023 0 Comments Medieval engineers animals![]() The legend of the Manticore originated in Persia and, like many monsters, reached medieval Europe via Pliny the Elder’s 1st century Naturalis Historia, which tended to be quite willing to accept such creatures.įlavius Philostratus, writing after Pliny, said: The first English language mention of the Hircocervus comes from a manuscript of 1398. ![]() Both Aristotle and Plato discuss the Hircocervus in their philosophy, although to Aristotle’s mind the creature is clearly fictional. The Hircocervus was supposed to be half deer and half goat and had been speculated about since antiquity. The point of folklore was more to illustrate issues of moral and social importance rather than to accurately depict the natural world. Whether or not people believed in all of these creatures is difficult to say, since it was not really the point to believe or disbelieve (although many would have been convinced of the existence of these creatures). The folklore of medieval Europe was a mixture of legends from various sources, such as ancient regional stories mixed with Judeo-Christian religious tales and myths from the Roman Empire and the Near East.
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