Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology (1900)
Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · London : J. Murray · leaf 149
igs. 58, 59. The little bronze figure heresketched has a history which we have recorded else-where.135 It was, however, designed avowedly, andplaced where it was, upon the outer angle of a palace,as a devil to keep off the devil, and has been knownfor centuries as il diavolino. This figure, though… … 35 Evil Eyey p. 232. THE ROARING LION *33 and inconspicuous. In this thoroughly composite figure we cannot fail to see a representation of both the scriptural and the classical conceptions—the lions head and mane of that old serpent the dragon, and the horns and body of the goat-man Pan. His tail…
Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
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