Mythical animals, in which people believed for centuries

For centuries people believed in strange creatures like inhabit the planet. The animals varied from country to country: in Europe, was infested with dragons, Wyverns and unicorns, Greece gave us the Minotaur, pan and other demigods. In addition, there is a whole galaxy of minor fictional (and maybe real) creatures, where for centuries our ancestors believed.

Hairy trout

The myth of the fur-bearing trout came to the first American settlers who just discovered the coldest place of the new country. Home they sent strange letters filled with descriptions of unusual animals and fish. Trout there are, like, so cold that she has to grow fur.

Unicorn

The Roman historian Pliny the Elder described the unicorn in his "Natural history." Pliny said that the unicorn radical and brutal animal, and if no one manages to capture him alive.

Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary

Lamb, sprouting like a flower from the earth? There is. The history of this extremely strange animal can be traced from 436 BC.. wrote About it in one of the prominent commentators of the Talmud, Rabbi Yochanan.

Asconty

Appears in many Christian texts and some medieval bestiaries. That said, if a massive sea monster so huge that sailors mistake it for an island. Asconty waiting, and then pulls down the whole team.

Gloucester snakes

The sea serpent was spotted in the Harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The first evidence is dated 1638 year, and often snakes appeared in 1819 — he saw hundreds of people.

Jackalope

The legend of sizelove (presumably a cross between a jackrabbit and antelope, Jackalope) began with a resident of Wyoming Douglas Herrick. He allegedly found one unusual rabbit is dead and hung my head on the wall of his shop. However, a similar myth existed before. In Persian geographical dictionary of the mention of the same animal already dated the 17th century.

Monkey de Lua

Giant APE allegedly encountered by the Swiss Explorer Francois de Lua in 1920 near the tarra river in Colombia. Photo of the beast was published in the 1929 edition of the Illustrated London News — despite the fact that the vast majority of experts called it a hoax.

Dragons

Dragon story is a haunting humanity for many centuries. Chinese medic lei Xiao wrote that from the bones of a beast it is possible to prepare the universal remedy for many diseases. Pliny the Elder spoke like a dragon capable of killing an elephant's tail, a well-known naturalist of the 17th century, Kircher, and all have described the detailed habits of dragons in his work Mundus Subterraneus.

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