Myths about Animals and Mythical Beings

For thousands of years of cultural history, humanity has created many myths about the surrounding world and the living beings that inhabit it, friendly and hostile, imaginary and quite real, unique and the most ordinary. And it continues to do so to this day, populating fantasy worlds with unusual creatures and creating legends about mysterious cryptids.

This fantastic bestiary will introduce you to amazing hybrids, chimeras, magical animals, birds, and reptiles from world mythology – from nagas to dragons, from the ancient Egyptian dog-headed Anubis to the sinister Black Shuck from the British Isles, from the dreadful Sphinx in the myth of Oedipus to the ordinary house cat, which, by the unanimous opinion of different peoples, is not as simple as it seems at first glance.