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Keywords: Martigora engraving.jpg The Manticore or Martigora was described by Pliny and Aristotle as a creature with the face and ears of a human with grey eyes and a red body; a tail with a sting like that of a scorpion and being the size of a lion and with a lion ™s paws a triple row of teeth and an appetite for human flesh of the nature of four-footed beasts Historiæ Naturalis de Quadrupetibus PD-old-100 |