Mr. Halo, I must admit you are the best at finding pictures! I love pictures of beasts from the "way-back-whens". Thank you for sharing!

DrStrangelove...you took the words right out of my mouth. Good job mr_halo

yeah those pics are really cool mr. halo.

i found a cool pic of this weird dragon type thing called a basilisk. ive heard of them before, but i dont think ive ever seen one before.

Is it just me or do most of the olden day monsters have human like faces?...


Yet again Mr. Halo you have found great pics

Someone hasn't seen or read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

oo yeah! thats where ive heard of them! i have read the book and seen the movie too. i just couldnt remember where ive heard them tho. thanks for reminding me!

Good pics man

excellent idea. the olde sea monsters thread did so good, this just seems a natural follow-up. im gathering pics, to be mass-posted in a bit.

i shall look forward to seeing the pictures, atleast it will save me finding some more

more pictures people...please

a Catoblepas, which I started a topic on, that has yet to get any replies.



Gryphons. The last one is a photograph of a statuette.

sh**, is there any image extension that will work on this board?

ive got, like, a million damn pictures here and i cant post any except those. oh well, i guess its linking time.....

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...GES/harpies.gif
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...MAGES/Harpy.gif
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...AGES/Harpy2.gif
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...AGES/Harpy3.gif
Harpies all.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...AGES/kobold.gif
a Kobald, or Cob.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...MAGES/Laima.gif
Lamia. i hate her. shes so ugly.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...GES/mantico.gif
a Manticore. I included that one in the Catoblepas topic.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...GES/mantico.gif
a Unicorn with a nymph.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...ES/Unicorn2.gif
a Unicorn, the traditional, almost goat-like type we all know and love.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...MAGES/Tengu.gif
a Tengu, a rather uninteresting Ainu monster.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...AGES/Siren2.gif
a siren.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/IMAGES/Roc.jpg
a Roc.


There you go, Mr. Halo. I’m going to give you a run for the money in this thread.

http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/basilisk.jpg
a Basilisk.
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/old_griffin.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Griffin02.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/griffin_7.htm
http://monsters.monstrous.com/griffin_2.htm
Gryphons. The second one is quite disturbing. The last one is a statuette.
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/unicorn2.gif
a typical heraldic unicorn.
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Unicorn19.jpg
a ‘scientific’ drawing of a unicorn by Pliny the Elder.
http://monsters.monstrous.com/unicorn_4.htm
all sorts of different monsters, unicorns included. Yves Charpry.

And, if I can persuade folks to ignore the nudity…..
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Unicorn08.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Unicorn12.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Unicorn07.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Unicorn02.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Unicorn06.jpg

oo, my turn! My favorite, a werewolf!

OMG!!! Mr. Haloe thanks so much for sharing these pics. I luv monsters from medevil times. Ill try to post some!!

Time to get Medieval on your @$$.

Great pics! Thanks. Ilike the Babylon dragon and the basilisks.

Nice pics but kinda shows our ancestors had over-active imaginations

yeah there are so many pictures out there, that are just to big to post, mostly the best ones are just big to post

great links and pictures man_in_mudboots, there was so many unicorn pictures out there that i was going to post, but you've done it, hurray

well, ill tell you what, by asking folks to ignore the nudity, i suggest that theres blatant nudity to begin with. and, of course, pictures of naked people lure folks in far better than pictures of medieval monsters.

My old Politics leactures loved Greek Mythology as a child, but wasn't allowed to keep books in the house because his father beleived he was just looking at the topless she-monsters

maybe someone should start a nude monsters topic, for research and scientific reasons of course....

I dun think dragons exist. I just think they were just flying dinosaurs from long time ago that was still existing in the medival times. Just that all of them extincted. Im not a very good speller!

The Guys who Drew these must have been Either Drunk , High or Tripping, all three maybe

I wonder who was the first to dream up the Face of Satan with Horns and Goatee etc.

Cool Pics ,

Reminds me of a time about 10 years Ago When i Needed A lightbulb for my Budgie Cage. Back then We called Budgies Chizwazzers.

man in mudboots, do you have a link to the Catoblepas topic that you started? I am interested in finding out more about them, but am too lazy to look myself.

It's from a book called "De historia et veritate unicornis" by Magnalucius, a gnostic monk from the XVI? century. It had awesome drawings

Great pics you all . I wonder if there is any truth behind the myths.....

I dunno. There are so many things out there that we don't know that there is a posibility that they exist. Or at least I hope so

oh, yeah, a nude monsters topic, for research and scientific reasons and stuff. that ought to go over well. i fear that whoever starts it will be unable to avoid being branded a 'pervert'.

nice picture, M. Jpalz.

sure, Jasu. --linker--

People draw things that scare them. I think these people were scared of the UNKNOWN.

the unknown is the ultimate sorce of all fear. even animals are afraid of the unknown.

here are some more. gosh, why did we let this topic die down?

http://monsters.monstrous.com/duplicate1/m...al_monsters.jpg
various creatures
http://pantheon.org/areas/gallery/mytholog...ic/behemoth.jpg
behemoth and leviathan - damn good pic!
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/Basilisk.gif
basilisk
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/dragons.gif
dragon (duh)
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/Hydra.gif
hydra

http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/Wyvern.gif
a wyvern ~ awesome pic!!!!!
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/harpy.gif
harpy (contains nudity)
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/mantygre.gif
mantygre
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/leucuronta.gif
lucrotta
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/manticora.gif
heraldric manticore
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/lamia.gif
lamia (agian, nudity)

http://pantheon.org/areas/gallery/folklore...ore/griffin.gif
gryphon
http://pantheon.org/areas/gallery/folklore...eroic/hydra.gif
hydra
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...ES/Basilisk.gif
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Basilik13.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/basilisk.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Basilik01.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Basilik20.jpg
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Basilik11.jpg
basilisks all.

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...MAGES/Kilin.gif
ki-lin, japanese unicorn ( )
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...MAGES/Kirin.gif
ki-rin, another type of japanese unicorn
http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...GES/fen-hua.gif
feng-huang
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Roc.jpg
roc
http://monsters.monstrous.com/Pictures/Monsters14.jpg
japanese pheonix
http://www.santharia.com/bestiary/beasts_pics/phoenix2.jpg
okay, so its not a medieval picture, but its just so neat i had to post it. its another pheonix, by the way.

ooooh an old topic of mine, back from the dead....

great pictures man in mudboots

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monste...AGES/Amphis.gif
amphisbæna
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/chimera.gif
belerophon, pegasas, and the chimera.
http://pantheon.org/areas/gallery/mytholog...eek/chimera.gif
chimera
http://pantheon.org/areas/gallery/folklore...lore/kelpie.jpg
kelpie.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/bonnacon.gif
a bonnacon.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/camelopard.gif
a cameleopard.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/gulon.gif
a gulon! gulons are neat!
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/ibex.gif
a heraldric ibex. It has a rigid spine, and cannot look behind itself.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/lambtree.gif
Barmotez

http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/musimon.gif
Musimon
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/su.gif
su (theres another one of your human-faced monsters!)
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/Unicorn.gif
unicorn
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/kirin.jpg
another ki-rin
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/eale.gif
a yale, which is very interesting.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/Centaur.gif
average, run-of-the-mill centaur.

http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/sphinxgrk.gif
sphinx.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/woodwose.gif
a woodwose, which gave tolkien his idea for the ents.
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/phoenix.gif
a pheonix
thats all for now. *whew*

sweet......i like all of the pics

Whew, Man in Mud Boots sure racked up on this topic.

Awesome!

man in mudboots you put me to shame with all your great pictures....

keep posting them if you find anymore

ive got some more here. these are mostly ghouls and demons and graveyard critters.
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/macabre.gif
black death - NEAT!
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery1/macbr01.jpg
The fight of the City of Satan (Babylon) against the City of God (Syon) - BIG!
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery1/macbr10.jpg
Demon carrying off a child promised to the Devil.
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery1/macbr06.jpg
Angels defending the Citadel of Heaven against the hordes of the Devil.
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery1/macbr13.jpg
A harpy.
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery1/macbr19.jpg
a pig-like demon.
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery1/macbr18.jpg
a very strange female demon.
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery1/macbr20.jpg
a decidedly anti-papist depiction of the Pope as a demon.

--DIG THIS BEAT!!!!!!!--its a museum of medieval wood engravings. very interesting, i got alot of my pics from it.

notice a couple things in that picture. outside the ring is a desert, and inside is a pasture. you say 'duh'. but, inside the ring the sun is up, while outside the moon is out. the bridge over the stream and into the ring is of stone and earth. and, last, the traveler is drawing a swirl pattern in the dirt. the swirl also appears at the very bottom left-hand corner. could that swirl be a spell of sorts?

thanks for even more great picture man in mudboots...

you are keeping this topic going, thank you

http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/images/Wyvern.gif
a wyvern. very neat pic.