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Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places |
Ipotane
| Description | People
with horse's feet.
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| Features | Fast
runners.
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| Related to | Centaurs?
Hippopotamus? Sea-Horse?
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| Described By: | Mandeville-
"And in another isle be folk that have horses' feet. And they be
strong and mighty, and swift runners; for they take wild
beasts with running, and eat them."
Mandeville- "In that country be many hippotaynes that dwell some-time in the water and sometime on the land. And they be half man and half horse, as I have said before. And they eat men when they may take them."
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