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Mythical Organisms - MT1 - Part 1 Flashcards

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What 3 things are in the cryptozoo catagorie?

A
  1. Sphinx
  2. Manticore
  3. Basilisk
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Sphinx (4)

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  • Body of a lion
  • Wings
  • Head of a women (Greek)
  • Head of a king (Egyption)
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How does the sphinx kill you?

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Asks a riddle and if you get them wrong you were eaten

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Manticore (3)

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  • Body of a lion
  • Face of a person
  • Maneater
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Basilisk

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The king of snakes

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How does the basilisk kill you?

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By glancing at it

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How does the manticore kill you?

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Can shoot arrows from their stinging tail

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What 3 things are in the cryptogarden catagory?

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  1. Mandrake
  2. Apple of sodom
  3. Zieba tree
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What does the mandrake resemble?

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The root resembles a human figure

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How does a mandrake kill you?

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The skreik it emits

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How did one use to remove mandrakes from the ground?

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Use to dig around the bottom and tie a rope with a dog on it and then run away to have the dog pull it up and the screamed killed the dog but the person was fine

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Apple of sodom

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Grows at the site of the former towns of sodom and gomorrah, which god destroyed in his righteous wrath over lustful behaviour

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What happens when an apple is picked from the tree of sodom?

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It turns into ash and smoke in the hand

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Zieba tree

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A tree full of bare-breasted mystics and philosophers

  • tree of life
  • people lived in the tree
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When were unicorns first mentioned? And by who?

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  • c. 398BC

- By Ctesias

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Unicorn (2)

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  • Larger than a horse

- had a half horn on the head

17
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What was believed that the horn could do?

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Believed that crushed up unicorn horn was an antidote for poison

18
Q

How did unicorns get into the old testament?

A

Were trying to translate it and got stuck on the word re’em

- knew it was an animal but got mistranslated

19
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What does re’em mean?

A

Wild ox

20
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Monoceros (5)

A
  • Stags head
  • Elephants feet
  • Boars tail
  • Horses body
  • Horn in the middle of the head
21
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What was a unicorn in Arabic mythology?

A

It killed elephants by skewing them

- after killing 3-4, it got tired and exhausted and fell to the roc (which was a bird)

22
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What was the unicorn in Jewish mythology?

A

It was too big to fit on Noah’s arc, so it survived by treading water and resting its horn on the ark

23
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What was the unicorn in Christian mythology?

A

Could only by pacified by virgins

- the virgin lured them out and then would catch them using a very large net

24
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Alicorn

A

Medicinal unicorn horn

25
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What happened when the alicorn touched the food?

A

It became poisonous

26
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What did they start replacing unicorn horn with?

A

Narwal horn

- but it was actually a tooth

27
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What is the Upas tree also known as?

A

The Javan Tree of Death

28
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Where is the Upas tree grown?

A

In Java

- Indonesia

29
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What did the Upas tree produce?

A

Toxic fruit

30
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Who first mentioned the Upas tree?

A

Friar Oderich

- 1330

31
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What did John Mandeville claim?

A

That the Upas tree made the deadliest poison in the world

32
Q

What would people try and collect from the tree?

A

Sap

33
Q

What did Dr. Englebert Kampfer say about the tree?

A

Local people used to get criminals to collect the sap because the tree was deadly to approach
- if the criminals lived, they were set free as a reward

34
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What did Rumphius say about the tree?

A

Poisonous gas emanates from the tree

  • could only approach the tree if all your skin was covered by fabric
  • no other plants grew near the tree
  • dead birds littered the ground underneath it
35
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What did Anarticle say about the tree?

A

The danger zone had a radius of 12-14miles

  • criminals assigned to collect the sap were equipped with leather caps, protective glasses and leather glovers
  • a priest living near would bless their efforts
  • 700 criminals went in, 70 came out
  • bodies littered the ground underneath it

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