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Manticore
The manticore (Early Middle Persian ''Martyaxwar'') is a Persian legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), sometimes bat-like wings, and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it may shoot venomous spines to either paralyze or kill its victims. It devours its prey whole and leaves no clothes, bones, or possessions of the prey behind. It should be distinguished from the lampago, a "man tiger"〔Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.499, blazon of arms of "Radford of Radford": ''Sable, three lampagoes (man tygers, with lion's bodyes and men's faces) passant in pale coward argent''"〕 and the satyral.〔Dennys 1975, p. 114.〕
==Origin==
The Manticore myth was of Persian origin, where its name was "man-eater" (from early Middle Persian مارتیا ''martya'' "man" (as in human) and خوار ''xwar-'' "to eat"). The English term "manticore" was borrowed from Latin ''mantichora'', itself derived from the Greek rendering of the Persian name, , ''martichora''. It passed into European folklore first through a remark by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court of King Artaxerxes II in the fourth century BC, in his book Indica ("India"), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history but has survived only in fragments, or references by those other writers. The Romanised Greek Pausanias, in his ''Description of Greece'', recalled strange animals he had seen at Rome and commented,
Pliny the Elder did not share Pausanias' skepticism. He followed Aristotle's natural history by including the ''martichoras'' – mistranscribed as ''manticorus'' in his copy of Aristotle – among his descriptions of animals in ''Naturalis Historia'', c. 77 AD.
Later, in ''The Life of Apollonius of Tyana'' Greek writer Flavius Philostratus (c. 170–247) wrote:
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