Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 133
seems to be the oldest shapeassigned to him, he developed into a dragon, that isa serpent with wings, having sometimes the head ofa lion, sometimes of a man, and at others that of acrocodile.123 We must, in speaking of the devil, always remember 121 On this see Evil Eye, p. 185. 122 Matt. xvi. 24.… … the distinction between the dragon and the moreclassic griffin, whose body was that of a winged lion, with a head usually like an eagle, butwith many modifications. Fig. 45 is thehead of a griffin from the Forum ofTrajan, in Rome, with a head of a lion,but horns of a goat, and hence of trulyclassic…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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