In Search of the Hippophugi December 10, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Recently reading a good deal of medieval beast lore and came across this curious creature. As always there is that half-formed suspicion that this must be something real, if only we could pare back the description to its absolute essentials: In the same regions of the river Briso [in Ethiopia, there is much debate?] there […]
Crypto Fairy Hippo Cow in Scotland and Ireland?! November 6, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Modern, Prehistoric
Fairy cows are occasional adjuncts to fairy legends and in the Gaelic world, particularly in the Irish west and the Scottish highlands there is the fairy water cow, a creature that comes from out of the water to land to graze. A little legend illustrating this from Limerick in Ireland, more specifically Lough Guir (aka […]
