Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 138
oor ass in Fig. 50 may be taken to be her originalin the myth. THE DRAGON A CROCODILE 121 Many fanciful pictures, like Hones,8 of St. Dunstanand the devil, gave him a barbed tail like that of thefabulous dragon, a creature that was supposed to sendfire out of its mouth with poisonous vapours;… … Fig. 49. Fig. 50. of the crocodile, as in a picture of the temptation byLucas van Leyden,9 where the devil is representedas a monk with the dragons foot peeping out beneathhis gown, and the point of his cowl drawn out into asort of tail like a serpent with its head at the end.This latter fancy is a…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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