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Manticore - all you want to knowcategory: Anything | August 6 | @920 |
The manticore is a legendary creature, a kind of chimera often with horns, gray eyes, three rows of iron teeth, and a loud, trumpet/pipe roar, the body of a (sometimes red-furred) lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion, which may shoot out venomous spines or hairs to incapacitate prey.
Occasionally, a manticore will possess wings of some description. Size reports range from lion-sized up to horse-sized.
The manticore was of Persian origin, where its name was "the Eater of People" (from early Middle Persian martya "human, mortal being" and xwar- "to eat" ). The English term "manticore" was borrowed from Latin mantichora, itself...
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