Comments | kiria_dk: In which I need a hand killing off mythical beasties

kiria_dk

In which I need a hand killing off mythical beasties

Apr 28, 2011 21:32

3-2-1-Panic! Ok, so it's not that bad, but still. I've been wracking my brain for more than a month on the subject of "Mythical Beast(s)" and finally, on Monday, sparked off an idea I can run with: The Gashlycrumb Bestiary. I had been dead set on doing something awesome with alliterative verse, but my brain wasn't cooperating, so rhymed couplets it ( Read more... )

whining, writing, sca, i'm a dork, poetry

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kiria_dk April 29 2011, 05:10:38 UTC

*grin* Thanks. I'm having far too much fun with it. I decided to drown the Salamander. In a fountain. ^___^

tafelspitz April 29 2011, 05:14:27 UTC

Do you have 'B' already covered? If not then surely you need to include the Bonaccon. A bovine creature described by Pliny the Elder who when pursued, lets loose a fiery fart that blasts and scorches the earth and all behind it. Its defeat could be encompassed by the stealthy insertion of a cork.

dybbuk67 April 29 2011, 05:35:23 UTC

L is for Lamia. Though I need to remember how lamia died.

K (or c, if you spell as badly as I do) ppfuf April 29 2011, 05:49:07 UTC

Cerastes, a very flexible snake with horns (see http://bestiary.ca/manuscripts/manugallery2007.htm# for medeival picture or http://myths-made-real.blogspot.com/2010/12/creature-feature-cerastes.html for modern pictures ( ... )