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Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places |
Satyr
| Description | Half
man, Half goat. Bearded, sometimes with horns or goat's ears.
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| Features |
Prone to drinking, partying and lusting after women. In Greek mythology, the
god of the woods, Pan, is a satyr.
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| Might Actually be | Orangutan |
| Described by | Pliny-
"Among
the mountainous districts of the eastern parts of India, in what is called
the country of Catharcludi, we find the Satyr, an animal of extraordinary
swiftness. They go sometimes on four feet, and sometimes walk erect;
they have, also, the features of a human being."
Isidore of Seville- "The Satyrs are manikins with upturned noses; they have horns on their foreheads, and are goat-footed, such as the one St. Anthony saw in the desert. And he, being questioned, is said to have answered the servant of God, saying, "I am mortal, one of the inhabitants of the waste, whom the heathen, misled by error, worship as the Fauns and Satyrs.""
Picture of a goat-boy
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