MYTHICAL BEASTS ----I
Classical - Part 1 1. Salamander: Although this species of Urodela (amphibians with a lizard-like appearance) is certainly real, the classical civilizations believed they had occult properties. For instance, although Pliny the elder was smart enough to distinguish the Salamander from actual lizards (in a taxonomical sense), he also held a belief that they could extinguish fire with their bodies. The Talmud (a Jewish Rabbinic text) states that smearing yourself in the blood of a salamander will make you immune from fire, and some believed that the creature was so poisonous that just by climbing around a tree it would poison its fruit so badly that anyone who ate even a single bite would perish immediately. 2. Faun: Half human and half goat, the Faun of classical mythology is often related to the wood-god Pan. Sometime...
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