Unraveling the Medieval Bestiary: Mythical Creatures and Moral Tales

1. ? Mythological creatures… Do you know any? What animals do they put together?

3. bestiary In medieval times, a book with stories and illustrations which depicted real and mythical animals or plants to illustrate a (usually Christian) moral. The stories were initially derived from the Greek Physiologus, a collection of 48 such stories, written around the 2nd century. Much of later and contemporary folklore about animals derives from the bestiary, such as the myth of the phoenix burning itself to be born again.