A newt
Scorpion impaling a man's hand
A hyena robbing a grave
A spider
A pelican reviving its young with her blood
Lions breathing life into their young who are born dead
A dolphin
An elephant carrying Indian soldiers
Sirens
Beavers were hunted for their testicles. They'd castrate themselves so the hunters would spare their lives.
A camel looking dandy
A woodwose or wild man
A lamia, child eater
>>4884214Incorrect.
Kino thread, keep going anon
I know a Satan when I see one.
>>4884207why the specific detail on it having a gaping pussy??
Why do most of these look like the fucker drawing them had never seen even a cat?
>>4884267Take that back
On the left is the lanzani, who attacks all beasts. On the right a human and lion cower in fear of its unending hatred.
The porcupine. When threatened it can shoot quills at an attacker.
>>4884267at some point in history the pope said that cats were evil and that they should get rid of them, millions of cats were killed including the ones in monasteries who remained cat free from hundreds of years.as a karma fact, a couple of years after the pope said cats were satans the black plague happened and millions of people died, including the pope.
>>4884221Wtf bigfoot came into contact with humans in the Middle Ages confirmed?
>>4884294>as a karma fact, a couple of years after the pope said cats were satans the black plague happened and millions of people died, including the pope.I like cats but that is pop sci
The European hamster>>4884294I think that one is slightly mythological. Most of the pope's statement was about satanic anal kissing cults animating statues through gayness, and the plague came a century later. It's not even that crazy by pope standards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
Sailors mistaking a whale for an island. It basked in the sun so long it's grown flowers on its back.
A sea-hare. Its poison can be nullified by drinking water mixed with water frog ash.
Hedgehogs climbing a tree to knock down fruit. They'll roll along the ground, sticking fruit on their spines to carry home.
A griffon capturing a horse. It is found either in India, Ethiopia or the Hyperborean mountains.
The caladrius lives in the home of a king. It has the ability to tell if someone will die of illness.
>>4884274Not sure why but this made me laugh
Crocodiles always cry after eating a man, though their tears are insincere.
The asp knows to block its ears when someone tries to enchant it. The man on the left wears a Jewish hat and is hitting it with a stick rather than a sword, suggesting he's a magician attempting to use magic on it.>>4884337He's become accustomed to his own malice
Though the smallest of all birds, bees are very human. They follow laws, elect the noblest as king and go to war with each other. Lawbreakers will sting themselves to death so the king needn't enforce the law.
Owls are dirty and lazy birds that fear the light. Other birds will harass them during the day to betray their location.
Ostriches are camel-footed birds that can digest even iron. They immediately forget their eggs and allow the sun to hatch it for them.
The vulture can live a century and has the ability to predict how many men will die in battle. Supposedly all female, they're impregnated through their mouths by the winds.
Bats are winged quadrupeds and the only birds to give live birth.
Octopi are notable for being talented deceivers. Here you see a man tricked into an embrace.
Sea-pigs come from the idea that every land animal had a fish counterpart. They snuffle along the sea floor searching for food, which is coincidentally how sea cows eat.
Hippopotamus means river horse so they were depicted as horse like with fish tails. At night they leave the river to graze.
>>4884269me on the left
Pearl oysters absorb sun, moon and starlight by opening and closing to produce a pearl. Agate gems are attracted to pearls so you can drop one in the water and follow it to the oyster.
>>4884205great thread
A plain chameleon. They cant turn red or white though.
Satyrs are club-wielding ape men and are like a more monstrous version of the wild-man. They're said to be native to Ethiopia.
Ant-lions are the offspring of lions and ants. Because lions can only eat meat and ants eat grain it inevitably starves to death.
>>4884316That article is really interesting. Where can I read about the gay statue animation?
Sea turtles are a kind of armoured fish. Its bite is stronger than any other animal's and naturally grows knight-like protection.>>4884401I cant find a translated version of the decree buthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_in_Ramahttps://www.snopes.com/news/2023/11/08/cats-mass-killings-plague/>“Afterwards they sit down to a meal and when they have arisen from it, from a certain statue, which is usual in a sect of this kind, a black cat about the size of an average dog, descends backwards, with its tail erect. First the novice, then the master, then each one of the order who are worthy and perfect, kiss the cat on its hindquarters”So Gregory IX was talking about a Luciferian cult that apparently animated a cat statue in a ritual and kissed its bum in Germany. There was also a peasant revolt over taxes there so it may have been an excuse to have a crusade against that.
>>4884211What
The female ape always gives birth to twins, one of which she loves and the other she hates. When she carries her young, she holds the one she loves in her arms, but the one she hates must cling to her back. When the ape is pursued by a hunter, she tires from running while carrying her two children; when she is in danger of being caught, she drops the child she loves in order to escape, but the one she hates continues to cling to her back and is saved.Apes love to imitate what they see humans doing, and this can be used to catch them. A hunter sits where apes can see him, and takes off his shoes and puts them on again. He then takes them off and leaves them under a tree as he hides nearby in the forest. When an ape puts on the shoes the hunter runs out and catches the ape, which cannot climb with the tree shoes on. Another method used by hunters is to pretend to smear sticky lime on their eyes; when the apes imitate this they are blinded and easily caught.There are five types of apes. The first is called cericopithicus and has a tail. The second, with rough hair, is called sphinx, and is docile, not wild. The third is cynocephalus, with a head like a dog and a long tail. The fourth, the satyr (satyrus, described separately here), is lively and has a pleasant face. The fifth, called callitrix, has a long beard on its pointed face, and has a wide tail.Apes are happy at the new moon but grow sad as it wanes. At the equinox they urinate seven times. Apes are said to be ugly, dirty beasts with flat and wrinkled noses; their rear parts are particularly horrible.
>>4884448Pelicans are assholes and the chicks peck their mom. The mom inevitably gets mad pecks them to death. After 3 days she gives them her blood out of griefs and revives them.
I think it's neat how Ethiopia, India and Hyperborea are where all the weird creatures are. Someone probably saw an elephant tusk for the first time and was certain griffins were out there too.
>>4884448Storks and pelicans like to live near people on rooftops and chimneys. When they have a nest they go fishing and throw up the predigested fish for their children to eat. In the good old days people thought they picked at their own breast and fed their offspring with their own blood, as a sacrifice, similar to Jesus shedding his blood to save mankind from original sin. Ever since, pelicaans and storks have been a symbol of selfless love.Having a stork or pelican nest on your rooftop was a sign of good fortune and living proof that you live a morally good life. Even today people who expect children or celebrate newborns put an image of a stork somewhere in front of their house, expressing their desire to raise their children in that very spirit.
This thread is gold.
>>4884347I love the rich colors and gold in medieval art, that one is really well preserved.
>>4884266Because hienas are hermaphrodites.
>>4884223would
The antelope is so wild that hunters cannot catch it, except in one instance: When the antelope is thirsty it goes to the Euphrates River to drink, but as it plays in the thickets of hercine trees there, its horns get caught in the branches and it cannot free itself. The hunter, hearing its cries, comes and kills it.Its horns are like saws, and with them it can cut down trees.
>>4884210This one is unforgivable.
>>4884221Just a Scot.
>>4884218Almost has a pokemon head.
>>4884576Looks a little bit like quivern, but the fat is on the back.
>>4884316>>4884401>>4884427That is derived from the trope of the 'osculum infame', the shameful or concealed kiss a Witch made with the Devil.Where she'd kiss him on the asshole, the rear mouth, as part of making a pact. Others times only reference is made to the buttocks in general, perhaps as a means of propriety. The Devil often was said to take animal forms, including that of a cat.
>>4884215Looks like something a furry would make.
>>4884590lovely snout would kiss (makeout)
>>4884351Literally me
>>4884328Whimsical.
>>4884269
Walrus
>>4884460"The Cum-Beast". Who put a portrait of OP's mom in here? Mythical creatures only......hue.hue.hue.
>>4884559"Axe hunting".....there's something you don't see everyday.
>>4884269>Cat tools.
>>4884484>FF6 first boss fight
>Medieval animals>Nobody has posted a single rabbit yet
>>4884973
>>4885148underrated post desu
>>4884469>>4884448It was an old folktale. Louisiana had (has?) it as their state flag
>>4884276Guess they took the name literally
>>4884381What fuck ass description do you have to give a monk of a chameleon for him to interpret that it was a horse
>>4884266Seriously. Of all animals to draw that on...
>>4885951>>4884347I've always found it interesting how consistent this body shape for "serpents" in medieval illustrations is, despite being wholly fictitious and always inaccurate.
>>4884973That's remarkably accurate considering how alien walruses look.
>>4887174That's one angry lad.
>>4884366>the idea that every land animal had a fish counterpartPretty accurate, except I don't think there's anything one would consider a sea kangaroo.
>>4884973interesting how the style is similar to some coastal american/canadian indian art styles, but i can't imagine medieval europeans interacted with them at that time
>>4884215The old WoW wind serpents kinda look like those.
There's LOTS of depictions of cats doing this.
owo what's this?
>>4887939Well, that's something they do
>>4884212>me ttl giving thumbs up
yolo
>>4888273also this
>>4887261Mudskipper?
>>4884214I can see how this one came to life:>I came back from fighting in the east, you won't imagine what I found!>It was like a large, grey horse>So big it could carry a tower in it's back>It had tusks like a boar>And it's nose made sounds like a blowing horn
>>4884274that's a bear
>>4884435what in the absolute fuck is going on here?
>>4884359that's... pretty accurate. They do have two-toed feet, they eat anything, and they more or less don't sit on their eggs. Even the image is quite close.
>>4886991Good harvest this year.
>>4888386That doesn't seem very stable
>>4884576deviantart eevee head
>>4884274A legend of a bear from a place where they were all dead? Or was the artist just very unimaginative?
>>4884350All true
>>4888650This is also a lanzani. Species of bear exist throughout Asia. Eurasian brown bears are basically grizzlies and they're from Russia, so maybe stories reached the monks. The description of bears might've been applied to lanzanis.
this is a great thread
>>4884351What a face.
>>4884360Sounds like someone heard a myth about the Valkyries.
>>4884210I swear it's like aliens drew this.
>>4884210Where did the extra leg go?
>>4887261>except I don't think there's anything one would consider a sea kangaroo.lobsters jumping to escape Brazilian fishing law
>>4887261they hadn't invented kangaroos yet
>>4884210Why is the fly so cute
>>4888599Are you insulting that elephant's balance
why would medieval people write deep complex fanfiction about animal behaviors without any palpable fact? were they retarded?
>>4889820trust the science
>>4884206look at this smug fuck
>>4885148lel
>>4889820until the enlightenment that was basically the main “scientific method” you have your more modern scholars like Aristotle who actually observed what he wrote about, but most of it was just sort of “my cousin had a dream about this and his grandmother told him it was a message from God”.
>>4889820Boredom.
>>4884365And the guy on the right just sits there filming it for his Snapchat
>>4884484>>4885949>>4885950>>4885951>>4886992What the fuck was their problem with rabbits and snails
>>4891499Two of the most annoying things that constantly raid your garden. Pretty much the top animals a monk would see often and seethe about
>>4884212i wanna know the origin of this
>>4889820A few of them seem to be religious parables. Monks probably passed them on in the absence of actual information.
>>4891583Meant for >>4891578 too
>>4884369It seems that them having fuckhueg teeth was conveyed at least.
>>4884381I am very curious of the history of chameleons in literature for where this concept came from.
>>4891531>>4891499Snails also ate the books.
>>4884206Looks more stingray like.
Animals were so much cooler in the middle ages. What happened?
>>4884214>>4888386I guess this is why sometimes in chess rooks are depicted as elephants instead of castles.
>>4892020Not really.Elephants had a lot of mysticism during the medieval period because they were traded and sold like barbary lions across europe and legends regarding their feats of strength and size naturally lent itself into iconography of them supporting entire castles on their backs. As a result it was said the only animal capable of slaying dragons other than a saint was that of a mighty elephant, and symbols such as pic rel was used in coat of arms to symbolise this:>whats that, you have a dragon in your heraldry? HA! Mine has an elephant who shits all over your 4 leg wyvern! It is so strong it carries a castle on it's back you pleb!And so on and so forth.
>>4892024>pic didnt attatchFuck
>>4891990cum happened
>>4892024I would stab a mf just to watch an elephant fight and kill a dragon, thats cool as fuck.
>>4884322i imagine that's the monk or priest who drew it misinterpreting sailors describing barnacles on whales second hand.
>>4884267Because you have no idea how hard it is to describe an animal you've never seen or have only seen once briefly without pictures. Then you have to draw from that description. These were scribes working off of extremely brief descriptions usually pulled from other sources that were also making stuff up or working off other rough descriptions. These illuminations are around 2"x 2" in size. Nat geo and animal planet have spoiled you. there was some meme or game or something where people were told to draw an animal based solely off verbal descriptions and everything ends up as cat variation.
>>4884340How do you determine the insincerities of an animal's tears?
Did europeans really not know how to draw things until Da Vinci came along?
>>4884276People still believe this one. I ran into a woman at a zoo who was afraid to get near the porcupine enclosure lest it shoot its quills through the bars at her.>>4884362Frankly this is mostly accurate. The description, that is.
>>4884210...but spiders are everywherehow the fuck do they not know how to draw a spider??
>>4892824>Did europeans really not know how to draw things until Da Vinci came along?Yes. Da vinci was subpar when compared to most other renaissance artists at the time. His claim to fame was being a polymath and having projects that mirrored more modern concepts and technology. Also he was likely a gay pedophile, but people do not like talking about that.
>>4884351>if only you knew how bad things really are
>>4892824Were people from other continents better at drawing at the time?
>>4884210That fly getting its bussy ate
>>4889820>were they retarded?We still are.
>>4884214PRÖÖÖÖH :=====D
>>4893311No, the bad medieval art is due to the fact that random monks and medieval bureaucrats had access to what only skilled craftsmen in other societies had and doodled in the margins of their books or on blank pages. This shit is the equivalent of that S thing all school kids drew pre internet and funny names in computer code, just memes. The romans would probably be similar if they used paper for day to day work but instead used reusable wax surfaced tablets
>>4892824Manuscripts are just a really mixed bag. I guess partly because of what >>4893830 says, the guys writing them were not necessarily good at drawing. Some monk was tasked to copy something, and he may or may not have been good at drawing and may or may not have seen a lion before. If you look at the most high-effort ones, like the ones done for the prayer books of kings, you'll find much higher quality works, even around 1000 AD.I think the internet is also generally much more likely to share and spread derpy-looking owls than well done paintings of biblical figures.
>>4893918Also, while digging around scans of medieval manuscripts, I found that the late 14th century Wenceslas Bible features random kingfishers scattered over the pages, because they were King Wenceslas' favorite animal. Look at this dapper little guy.
>>4893927That guy looks so sick, like he's ready to go on some epic world-saving adventure.
>>4893279>Also he was likely a gay pedophileHe wasa just an italiana mama mia spaghetti pasta
>>4884206If you can afford a copy of the gilded reproduction of that book, do snag. I got it on loan from the library once and it was one of the most beautiful volumes I've seen. Pricey goddamn book it was though.
>>4893200>>4889489people were and still are both incredibly stupid and unforgivably lazy
>>4894246>people were and still are both incredibly stupid and unforgivably lazyCool story, zoy.
>>4894246I wouldn't even draw a spider like that when I was fucking five years old.
>>4894301I would. I'm not very good at drawing.
>>4884214That is clearly an Imperator class titan.
>>4894701Is this photoshopped? It looks anatomically correct.
I had fun opening the images before reading the description to see if I could figure out what they were. Kino thread OP
>>4894883https://www.imago-images.com/st/0095502645
>>4884274Honey badger or wolverine?
>>4887001Probably not the accounters fault, most monks didn't go outside of their monastery for their entire lives.
>>4888386>>I came back from fighting in the east, you won't imagine what I found!>>It was like a large, grey horseElephants were already well known by the middle ages.
There has to be a context we just don't have for why they did this.Maybe it's kinda like boomer newspaper comics. The ones where the joke is displayed with the images, but is then explained in a random corner somewhere by the illustrator. Only with these, they didn't do the explanation part, it was just understood at the time.As brilliant as many of the ancient people actually were, they had a very annoying habit of leaving things unexplained because people just knew it as common knowledge at the time. There's fighting manuscripts that literally refer to this ideation, purposefully not explaining things because it's such common knowledge.
>>4896483I think educating animals could lead to disastrous consequences.
>>4884333I just realised that my griffon is circumcised...>>4884351>the nest has fallen
I really like those monks' style.I wish I could do cool little artworks like this in my college note books, but I have zero drawing skills.
>>4889820many drawings were created by volcel chuddy monks obsessed with bible-lore, living in isolation lacking any art-education and had to guess wtf an animal looked- and behaved like that he had never seen before. probably copying other shitty copies made by other monksalso humans love anthropomorphism where we assign human qualities to animals and objects, like creating fables/fairytales
le queck
>>4891499the japanese also like to draw rabbitssumowrestling, 1100's
>>4899378rabbits and frogs archery
>>4899380bathing
>>4891499This one is for (you).
>>4899398Something amusing about a creature known for its speed riding a creature known for its slowness.
>>4892821Get a medieval bestiary and look up the animal, and it will tell you.
unfathomably based thread
>>4899590>>4899594>>4899596>>4899597>>4899599>>4899603>>4899609>>4899612Do tanukis have especially big balls or something?
>>4899675Not really
>>4899675No, which is really weird.Like there's plenty of other well-hung animals, but they picked some random cute one instead and made an animated movie where they glide around with their scrote skin.
>>4899599okay this is definitely somebody's fetish
>>4899675so I googled and these paintings are mostly from mid 1800'sstill don't really get it, but its apparently an old japanese meme, something about smiths hammering goldsheets between durable tanuki-skins that would stretch. a colloquial way to refer to testicles in japanese is gold balls (compare crown jewels in US)
>>4899597This one is my favorite because they drew the tanuki in a semi-realistic way. The others look more like weird dog people but this one looks more like a real one, which contrasts greatly with the giant testicles
>>4892024>Elephants had a lot of mysticism during the medieval period because they were traded and sold like barbary lions across europe and legends regarding their feats of strength and size naturally lent itself into iconography of them supporting entire castles on their backs. As a result it was said the only animal capable of slaying dragons other than a saint was that of a mighty elephantI hate how you phrased this, I hope it's not you and you simply copy pasted the paragraph
>>4899378That's not sumo anon, that rabbit is serving
>>4899373FACTUS
>>4899720So furries with gross cartoony fetishes have always existed
>>4899675They’re super common to find for an island nation, surprisingly stretchy without tearing, and about the right size for work like >>4899732 mentioned. Most other people just used cattle gut membrane or other organ membranes for gold beating instead and I have no idea how they compare to tanuki balls. Just guessing, but ball skin definitely seems like it’d be less hassle to preserve since it isn’t covered in shit and mucus with a bunch of fat to remove too.
>>4884223She can eat my childs if you catch my drift
>>4888275ah yes the sea priest, the weirdest cryptid because it didnt make sense in its own age lol
>>4891499the snails where a racist stereotype against some country i cant remember right now :P
>>4899928literally me
>>4888434the nun tries to make exchange with the cat to get the penis. "flesh for flesh".
>>4899603>scrotatsu
>>4884365the guy on the right kinda looks like he's filming his buddy with a smartphone
>>4884366
>>4887174you know how sharks fins peek out when they're near the surface for this creature two hands peek out and when you're on a boat you're supposed to give them double high-five for good luck
>>4893279>Also he was likely a gay pedophile,At that time, who wasn't
>>4896892Griffins are traditionally female, hence no "pizzle" as it's called in medieval art
bumo
>>4893918That one is fucking awesome. Holy Spiritbomb.
>>4899716>mfw my earthquake spam was halted by some furry's fat fucking ballsack
>>4899599>It's a livin'
>>4905776>nobleman, swerve
>>4903624So this is why there was a dark age...
>>4899720Here's my favorite.
hmm I wonder what he meant by that
>>4905816I can't tell if he's overjoyed by the tanuki scrote or distraught over his bench being engulfed.
>>4905834I believe it's a mixture of delight and surprise.
>>4889820
>>4884217I always like how they draw the robes all droopy like.
>>4884347>You will not beguile me with your jewish sorcery human
>>4888437authors just like to fuck with people, they either completely make up BS or say something mostly true so you cant tell which is which for the lols.
>>4884223that's a very unstable position
>>4884362Aren't there bats in Europe as reference point? I mean it's not super wrong but it's still wrong.
>>4907955Yeah but how often do you see them? They flutter around erratically at night so you only get a brief sense of what they are. Unless you find a dead one, which is probably rare, you'd never get a good look.
>>4884362Imagine if they drew a fruit bat with it's gigantic (proportionally) nuts.
>>4907955>>4907973in several european languages bats are refered to as flying mice. the swedish 'fladdermus' or german 'fledermaus' meaning 'fluttermouse', french 'chauve-souris' 'bald-mouse' etc.the artist probably based the proportions on mice, and worked from there by adding on wings etc
>>4903631>Griffins are traditionally femaleChecks out
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>>4884217And then what? What did they do with the nuts?
>>4896892>the nest has fallenfucking kek, underappreciated
>>4884351owls were negatively associated with jews in medieval timeskek the chuddy monk actually drew a large hooked nose and beady eyes on a droopy face
>a whale is a very great fish about one hundred or three hundred foot long, and the body is a vast magnitude; yet the orca, which is smaller in quantity, but more nimble in assault, and cruel to come on, is his deadly enemy.
>>4884217Well no, not really.>>4909011They remove some glands in the ass that helped flavor stuff.
>>4909159I'm impressed they actually drew the horsecock
>>4909159good ol pal wheels the living failure, looks like the one on the right
