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Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places |
Yale
| Description | The
size of a horse or a hippopotamus, with the tail of an elephant, and a black color. The
horns are about 2 feet long.
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| Features | Can
move its horns at will, to face different directions.
Used in English heraldry, particularly by the Beaufort
family.
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| Also called | A
Jall or
Eale, or the French version is Centicore.
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| Described By: | Pliny-
"The size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant's tail, of a black
or tawny color with the jaws of a boar and movable horns more than a cubit
long (17-22 inches) which in a fight are erected
alternatively, and presented to the attack or sloped backward in turn as
policy suggests."
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