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Legendary Creatures
Dragons, fae & monsters
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Legendary creatures play important roles in many ancient texts. Sometimes they are symbols of the hermetic processes of alchemy; in other cases they crop up in antique accounts of natural history. No doubt, these beings haunt our dreams and nightmares to this day. These are some of the books on dragons, were-wolves, unicorns, mermaids, giants and other elusive creatures at this site.
Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to LifeIvan T. Sanderson, 1961 — The Bigfoot researchers' Bible, by the writer who coined the term cryptozoology.The Book of Were-WolvesSabine Baring-Gould, 1865 — All killer, some filler.The Unicorn: A Mythological InvestigationRobert Brown, 1881 — Explore the deep mythological significance of the unicorn.Mythical MonstersCharles Gould, 1886 — Dragons, Sea-serpents, Unicorns: fact or fiction?The Seven Tablets of CreationL.W. King, 1902 — The Babylonian creation saga, including the battle between Marduk and Tiamat, a very angry goddess taking the form of a dragon.Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in ArtJohn Vinycomb, 1909 — Lore of the fantastic beasts of English Heraldry.The Celtic Dragon MythJ. F. Campbell, 1911 — The ur-myth of the struggle with the dragon, told in fine Celtic form with giants, mermaids and sidhe. (English and Gaelic)The Evolution of the DragonGrafton Elliot Smith, 1919 — The dragon: a neolithic symbol of the goddess, mutating into the prototype of the devil.Dragons and Dragon LoreErnest Ingersoll, 1928Lore of the UnicornOdell Shepard, 1930 — What is the reality of the myth of the unicorn?
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