Hidden & Mythical Organisms. Flashcards
What is a cryptozoo?
Study of hidden animals.
——- has the body of a lion & head of woman (Greek mythology) as head of a king (egyptenan u
Sphinx. The sphinx of girl asked passer by riddles I if you can’t answer. you get killed
What is a manticore?
A body of lion a face of a person and can shoot arrows. From tail & eats man.
What is a basilisk?
King of snakes and one glance at it can kill people.
…….. Roots reasonable a human figure and emit a shriek on pulling out & kills anyone Nero here it
Mandrake.
This grans at site of former town of soddom which was destroyed by God. When picked up this fruit trans into smoke aches.
Apple of soddom.
Who 1st mentioned the unicorn?
Estescas, Greek historian from Persia in lining India.
Who apart from estesias talk about - the rhino?,
①translations of the -Old Testament.
② Pliny
③Arab mythology
4 Jewish mythology
⑤ Christian but to pacify Unicom you need to be a virgin & possess a
Large net.
⑥ Marco Polo came across it while passing throughindia -the great Indian rhino.
… Kept the unregene alive & was medicinal as well as an antidote to poison
Alicorn.
The Javan tree of death in valled………
The upas. tree
Who first described the upas free?
Friar oderich
Who wrote the book called amoenitates exotica u
Dr. Englebert kampfer
Loves of the plant was written be………
Erasmus Darwin.
Name a play after upas tree
The law of Java/ The poison tree.(1820)
Who was leschnault?
French naturalist who set out to find the truth behind the tree. Collected a poisonous latex from tree containing a molecule known as antiarin which poisons heart
