Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Mythical Monsters
    Mythical Monsters
    Mythical Monsters
    Ebook545 pages7 hours

    Mythical Monsters

    By Charles Gould

    3/5

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 1969
    Mythical Monsters

    Read more from Charles Gould

    Related to Mythical Monsters

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Star Of The Mon

      Aug 13, 2020

      Star Of The Mon
      1 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Sep 9, 2021

      With regard to Nick Guitard’s letter pooh-poohing the possible existence of tiny aliens [FT405:71], I would like to make the following observations. David Bowie, may he rock on, once said that the Internet is like an alien being has landed and that w

      17 min read

    • Article

      Unmasking Mythical Monsters

      May 13, 2021

      Unmasking Mythical Monsters
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Compendium Of Cryptids

      Mar 21, 2024

      A Compendium Of Cryptids
      11 min read

    • Article

      The ROOTS OF fantasy

      Jan 6, 2022

      The ROOTS OF fantasy
      6 min read

    • Article

      Lives Of The Great Occultists

      Sep 10, 2020

      Personally, I blame that Aleister Crowley. If my memory serves me well (which, these days, it seldom does), Hunt Emerson and I more or less drifted into creating ‘Lives of the Great Occultists’ after I told him a couple of my favourite yarns about th

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Mar 24, 2022

      CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 1200, WHITSTABLE CT1 9RH, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS The very interesting report on ‘Man Of Russia’ and his outlandish claims about giant trees [FT415:9] got me thinking

      14 min read

    • Article

      Here There Be Dragons

      May 19, 2022

      Here There Be Dragons
      6 min read

    • Article

      On The Dark Side

      Jul 14, 2022

      Mark Norman & Tracey Norman The History Press 2021 Hb, 174pp, £14.99, ISBN 9780750998017 There is certainly darkness a-plenty within the world of folklore; what Chthonic treasures will be found in Dark Folklore? Its five chapters offer a bewitching a

      4 min read

    • Article

      Origin Stories

      Aug 6, 2023

      Vampires spring a few tropes to mind: a thirst for human blood, pointy fangs, Robert Pattinson. But variations on bloodsucking ghouls who have an aversion to sunlight have appeared in legends across the planet for thousands of years. The Mesopotamian

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Origins Of The Fairies

      Jan 25, 2024

      The Origins Of The Fairies
      3 min read

    • Article

      Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science: How the Unlikely and Unexplainable, Strange and Terrifying, Spawned the Age of Science.: How the unlikely and unexplainable, strange and terrifying, spawned the age of science.

      Aug 1, 2013

      Finding regularity in nature is the bread and butter of science. We know that reptiles lay eggs, while mammals bear live young; the Earth revolves around the sun every 365.25 days; electrons glom onto protons like bears onto honey. But what if some o

      11 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of Sacred Places

      Feb 8, 2023

      In Search Of Sacred Places
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Oct 7, 2021

      Nigel Watson reported on the suggestion that the ancient aliens thesis was inherently racist because it refused to acknowledge the ability of people of colour to construct impressive edifices [FT409:32]. Now, while I don’t deny that some aficionados

      9 min read

    • Article

      Hunting Monsters

      Dec 28, 2021

      Many people have heard of the grotesque Grendel, his mother and the dragon with whom the hero Beowulf contends in the great Old English epic poem. But the imaginative world of the Anglo-Saxons was populated by many more such creatures. Tim Flight’s n

      1 min read

    • Article

      After Death We Go…?

      Nov 5, 2020

      A History of the Afterlife Bart D Ehrman Oneworld 2020 Hb, 352pp, £20, ISBN 9781786077202 Many Christians believe that their doctrines sprang fully-formed from the Jewish origins of Christianity. But if this were so, many beliefs would be very differ

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Ridings’ return

      May 3, 2023

      The Ridings’ return
      8 min read

    • Article

      Unfreezing The Ice Age

      Oct 29, 2021

      Unfreezing The Ice Age
      14 min read

    • Article

      Harnessing Ancient Sensitivity

      Dec 1, 2022

      Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness Charles Foster Profile Books 2022 Pb, 400pp, £10.99, ISBN 9781788167185 Charles Foster’s first best-seller – Being a Beast (2016), widely praised as a “strange masterpiece” – had a premise that was hard to

      11 min read

    • Article

      Our Neanderthal Complex: What if our ancient relatives did “human” better?

      May 14, 2015

      In August 1856, limestone quarry workers blasting out the entrance to the Feldhofer grotto in the Neander Valley of west-central Germany found a set of skeletal remains. Assuming the skull scraps, arm bones, ribs, and pelvis were from an ancient cave

      7 min read

    • Article

      Why We’re Drawn Into Darkness

      Oct 10, 2019

      Robert Macfarlane grew up obsessed twith climbing mountains and nearly died on several occasions as he scaled some of the world’s high peaks. He found a safer way to indulge his alpine passions, writing about the mystique of mountains. As someone dra

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Whale Who Will Come Soon

      Sep 8, 2021

      The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the Cat Balou. The birds flash around us; like knife-thrower tricks at a circus. Diving through the water,

      8 min read

    • Article

      Vampiric Explorations

      Dec 3, 2020

      Theresa Bane McFarland 2019 Pb, 207pp, £32.95, ISBN 9781476681771 A New History Nick Groom Yale University Press 2020 Pb, 320pp, £9.99, ISBN 9780300254839 Vampires must constitute the mythological success story of the past couple of centuries, rising

      3 min read

    Reviews for Mythical Monsters

    3/5

    1 rating1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Book begins with the idea that tales of mythical monsters must have a basis in truth, because those non-english heathens can't possibly have more imagination than an englishman.The book goes downhill from there.

    Book preview

    Mythical Monsters - Charles Gould

    E1^book_preview_excerpt.html}rǒ̘m\ׅL4 H@# 42.2R(W̦@fed#%Gd&m}E2#<=p6>{=Yv!.})sWezvlN6|CUdmxN2*Y/O:U}h+E.!s;T^Q>duE2 ~Px[L?Flnw= ,oB5t<*<>v=7]{w<5ͺ*M}<e{ͫoMv*9;޾&{wWW?eޜ..oN]3S Ӄm뷮CZ6a'_/Ngr}YԗBVwXyv]Ŧp0u=l|~{Ն: ղo| crwܲ?zy#ԕdmgs=mZ?<|O>gua"8>9z\J>O_7/~o=K ?9;~:{}󛗋bp|u酰JdwW㯯NOo~ǗGٛ՛\~9]˳ ?9./7gNO7o~yw|s.8m˫˿߿?7oN/Qvr%xT(su}s|rz]Oo}7gB:|y~,yu/_,*k|{CQ}w~ys2lǗ/2[Jvlc]񌈕jl㺬(uZ$²*N| q5VFn oܔ(IJ:Uz̋#Vb(.ny[fUl][z1'_]Rߕܷ*[#eo? zmC=祫DEM#wv{,}p64kYk_ z#Zv~!fj!O.̣{3\z/_*D~YCRqy(Mmh}WfU;wK:4.nǍG0@!0Őd $MoT}.u{:sE䯹BBVa;W Tp!𣎅OO6}'4FѮ\"ۄ,[ZzKjiq"!S,3P ڽ*NoZ=yO(ڷD m16ha, nXʼhF?!{b6{9t 4rJV_@a"Lx^L84QB1XF@gTԢE#[Pk:JWHsU veakĎ dUGE)<rw¿e6Qu%2| Qݑ)ܠq >(SFHzo1%Z)R %/ YdpX>D Q=E wP8ӥ2>o>ys9<=l7+Tb4ea[6stW_V7NXcoa>'[OڵzMS/߿Ś _p(j-\?HC2>om`>ȕif2m{=horCm3ESBu{PÆ}$= -Db9SYj;xao!Q2%٫y\z*Z|OK<5 U#xQ2xGz [U:]4Plda8LyEYaCϰBcݸܕr9h2I \Jr V0ߘ[pr^AX@dNDA{6;?3E{#~l SGvWAz9kYSA_gtH;`~c!L%G w@zBkBnCi&>,[0iDU K%/Z;(zJV$eMP=*jD= u (:V%;Z2h,ӁyX ppv:s xqKSMGSŃCVPB -Ka#]fW*v^w DTRD* G 1ʌ򖡞+)+ʏEv9 bK$Ԝ\ܒs'*}bwn_vUms$ֺJbu[E }6O1)rU0/{9"j7Ю k62jvBAQ}_S W'׶F-7 !VIA^rԀ\* lŨV<;ܜڈi0M.bCu!C(Ŵ g<{sfu\"ɁI҂;an0le Gy>Pҕ-&DǦ-%(ʈX(||5~UP 3XeՋ@5SIcԅ$7w+B>U#73 UaY#zE:bx!yx988=jm|#nJT$|x 'tR׮%_"1χ .Or`AN[kG_ uB{B@q ޅ:w=e`2J,ks=R \ ,4 j#~vMTךTe`b:0 6g\FEyN~?A3eպz `rH ~gUoǚHSd(1P#%.B˖Nj#Y_uendiBG$D;`Bqy<] 4RtREm9=*^zbsC[@NK{VQ 2g77AhhM$kqoGfFrKͻ0"Y&K@)F੪:ֳu-jcЀʊM(lh:Mk̨, S߰dkYՖ r}竕wEcm3=b1A Р% r,*w|0EwFJeyXMa?#p3he/ln[1 eC#|+ܸ^EFkdku*,йNkQ]ke`DlZ%6PJFW0'*2%է#XΊuhG:j)II[LXJWsH?"m0w3m<1:hh+]V duWR2ald.򎩣di<#"iY8*];"oD\ro|"(_Z5fG-FLz')NعVTm%KaԖi2k~h,5uÒl_ɟo-E4C>{:ٱIs!Sh&MNM%#.|"8d:S4/, &}W*`eAM, Q.坜'}K)ؒ0 `  !Oݎf9(-[/YL8GB!e:u;B<*DrSvr u?t fijMj?z;h bAM/ṁMNԘ" Qo$*GBg@RXfjM"-ZҐw#e|cPle@R`' 34x$*R/o)fXUgoƂM bD$7Gs' {Cɜזjm&7}Lۋ&A6V) k"1E%aEKRR$5$F_6@6  1qpT B~@+M9ȧwފ= Z{U1,"D;9CIvxf cKV(u1 +0\[h#,ne\>L'\)-)\^\M5 o,QɅ UXlસ 4܄v]?{M$bDQt՟A$J}Q,A&a#3E~{A^I#`N~M4f!_4+8-9֎I|ݺdx\!W% ' us=,~:aU cb!] *qB1#AAUV!rMmEiZ؆8M]?m­2A'b0wBgh_ll$Ҏd;nAN*+d[f_U"܅#~Mi HayujGgLuiFf!u4ie걻Z_"(dU_ (CS9Kio?!* ܋ՏQ`q(*MFe))n ȸN``^1U>?W I5 {^SuАۡC{i-3!?:qJ }#=m <ȥMc5iЬ6_JdQkb~HxDi}Dײ.+Жۨ8¡;4iN1oFXDȔA_4wI@/w@ Ӕ'`+(ձĺ+ O@j #ҍ(V Ǘ~+z$wstq5zoޱJP\uo{(O!xЕI mUSN%Y?NpɼOLm2dHFh,\n@΅Ey`8T# w/Ǻ4s@џ ,QvBKW5QX|j; L&`#1ZaέfQGs m:,CQh*d ucR:BfyP ߧL|r$tZ',NbW#46p  'b/B[ʦtdum{&%W8ɾ:ΨpS-<Dz ?Q%yoU"6Q*V m~XY|BQjݺڏ`^gE4x[mwb.=Rp2l3[R(#p.e]c%+t\X┚,NdKޟ>d Qgi:44lr.mDYk?Pa-Kůpߑ}AkSL됝"x~]  [%xܣ\e3^25A+Y ;A2*b&+v[Fֹ~jc0R!"t1+"&ߞ|1+҂[Xl+Sj-`DNX,v6ƌHZ`$ cl~K>Idx یP~qC\a;W1TR%HPD, C#a0XA[ b mYu.IoZ+,IbA+.N2֡DP]kݡ5F/|+ldWf@"hSuU"Fqz0TvcGv9(yxp K{_N,3q0"AǏcHfE;8m;~2RɵiF $݈}  %BUD .eX ydkO?"[u} e*6Nl t PۈT oL`RP t7EVbi# $uFtv :ߊvS6&`ȾP DHםX@pZdzO ƜTPlu%=W.JFUՕ^'\ =Q/}~}ZЉo~N:6(lQ!v]44h7qӇFiGdC,pWj/=D !nbhq8j[3Odċ&ZΟU),r>0Օ3Dz3X=v=%hSɏ1OrW3_LpRK.ДoήYDj+HY!Ғ?>kV->$4Ow8 jлU  h#f*뭎L [ Bi),bSZ].y: p4v`f9/1Ͻ]W ->agh>c.'54)y++̺؊TO26`v;ql،I'g҄Jހ٤|#Y&ߒxCϙ"l8wPiGF7>-OY0) Eh>8#hw%~4Mhbb":^Y#گ(,Ю8?-DtQnQA vVܯMxІdfjY$Jc5xԋ6,r8 V`D&& 4Y[CeQ̄R\Uz b -lmuՄKBLQޏWo/0:!*K$#kijJ0g<KKB5jq` X<$k dV8 19 5mʵ_x9T;rbQbXզ8kH(?Y{to7Ѱf}:N,p!BdNڝ?( Z %-!M*\cToG$byV)ٵ؊ a*m`20<§uʦrnLqVRi ߬ [,@]Xx6>DṾ?wJXJ#YD^O@,iY6V*Xāƛz{/r878"Lo/b)zbR< Q-J##MBעe] ]&^D ѐAs<s:Uoq~]ȿ4Y6OlG_dCߞ|LxFHyoX4m+8˾$bQu쇸} M)!o: LmNB%n}׊u0$4 `TGg-8[+F;6DV@1QQE5'Nprv&i]@Ly7K3}xz4 4|gf[/6aJ8B(!'* WrUןn:A1#S</-[)`$,=)-0Y;ps)頙RjbB|dv1P?^b  (ȳ1~Ct\:=%p E5wٖOk h QnȺ➀=AihZ7("؟@K4Tν L$3Pa0{qN6ik7+h`IO_NV`0HLE3'3O8ڜ hPfi&]~f_#[ðs:'4k?n'*:r08$OaK&gq4"A.&>R|& SK!2sma2V Kюʱ֕yw4Գ,;bȳcu/ k1]8n wD#x(5676Bm&Ք|5>M;`Sw@2E,E8`EK(8kNxm=7'}Y]tF˙bil9|'e:rεCQd7FefRJ1TLYT0ފ4&=~?k_ 860a0٬HwmBκ9' Ii,X Yؚvu1Tr8ׇKLj#\^ :l]kMP9v.b59Ye"kg  f5qTɺ Ko1D眴؞wW:Â^ۮpbA0_KKZ.td@<%æXi) +iamh+8'ıܞS=8RBG8|o^lnF]m_VrhzQcOG$rr"Xs. 0ZmDZ$p V+̇R] ,?yZġVx#%&d6Qp} ڭͽ~pzTנtҼdclM2(m>%avNTܴ0ωs]lu5>l3j rlx  l% uj KS?^ROvb +hV%4>mwThssu7Drꏱ>FdT! :δ~*"e bmǥVMNP! %@>-'f K݊An^?ۍ:εic2tg;Cxcg}]$ad>4..}_(aHVlnE;HcS f-2?Tŭ7&'C1jKZ8qZyЭZD[MR*龍䒰5XoA MZ@u*"G'~fq]6:Y@  }?jp@KWT 6ٲ 4"8nnT"fdfV0/%\G&μ!kWz(!geڍC9YIG>ۤKgPMd1)سu6sY`xeCD#7PAH4)) ЀTI'ӵl]6Z )vHPD9+1_IMtч9JVY ?-q3XD&ڪ9YCMx*H@(6g6w_Qq9sӻVZ 8ITN'Mv K'iVy:|4!GpeG `][DJ1=~0Ց taA5H]ta)rUbܙ fw>s400"e#&,G*gIDϮ駵oa]L4}1tTNJ%۠ m5Q$Ow$3hPo4ly"Hd̓ڂp3 .J\jmWScSkA L+8{%jclʨӴ:l AQ+x@WÇ3U!إ4,V zhLǑ+M6M;DZubZcd;'s?,L52lx%P\meCNbbb6 ТSl+_ qgӅ bB#߆` 1VӃ 3" VGVIGD@jA|OAU _2$*U Wcm^$-1._O\ghf'6fO|Տ>6"^*ꆪ/tԎDvt|͋8c)xhDL#Muz*GWlk 3M®Ȓ K@ SM Jq@bvz,ı.<BK94A jii8xg/DԼ]\gA iaVa(s3$Yl652[QDo既'yQf 6 |=,SWel̄V |)EPZn`zAk*5`hvx@GTd \0 iA ȽT]ӈPv˛'"-2AoR$-mP[bJv(і!݌«n[ǧuWV )ֽC@]LgLC$6<XSJzg#7?Sb_;s/ w!GDԦfFelRe*>*>o92˃䔗a.02:tV莖-u3,ܰjoϏK@kbYe1Y΄]B;E/ ý96t HD0'G Ua_Uu:me"L (V8%˅3pRCT4Zgkd̎n_˃4xݽL[H1%= 4Z&4o4cYxS5c &y%gvťtH>4Vht4D<yjlghy[Ln^s{! 8#lX֤Hr}{~ N8DEn}"$pOU| #ɼtl[YS%i6`Ю0_iˊMT`y6M-3m'6 @`AL EpO>ճNVy7}&1joY2i$K>*;ԃ3N)t쇵DH &%'>ZI= jE%Y ,bs9_;Yz"m [KtMf tYFP~[4'=IKZ-|u%gXf>!]D0Ku;%(Z8Jn,D?:I.F.|urk7Dx1"=dHL#նJdET[ W*vaB3Xb۲2n_gUz|zAn2I4># bm8ܛlFrx~Ok .8ks8)t9o B$7DζiUg]]qhR&ƮDe{ouSKAN/HvԠLGM9.. `V"Mղʣ FDS v3KMq^ډMZ֑ &j lky*Rnmn_[gVzsJYeBq4=h0knpimmi/Re{|v\ ل"d\e~- qoLC\ތJ脙5N5:B2qiѨe@ExꏲiZInM]=-GS1֑T9Ȃa/,KGCI|T5J'/K_ k?)δ]~+Z}6WEv}YX%Ogxxj~+|8 u5F<.^Ң›vȺF MM1x=76%Z|M&rŮ* _u&դTf(&M M n*^e@'Fu#~ 1)8A.[aF3,iToZI5aߔ]"")7hi^hG}j/\Q0br{n:FId/?1qOc7@>+d7z !)i6[y×ٓo>x#)FM\.>mLJT0J&ٯgCrj.. ]& .ӯUStϖ&' :9٠;? )q}9?zH#fyOQ׿.'B'_}uoYy\$eT G0~|}v& L;;[)fT;B ֦LF7ڲ)c{"&<_˱yIF(y 1pG(C!YF?2j?~P8Zm7'R~(m .s۸Je/@dcqX#j@MRc} d;]{ޗoW{eȥc:$eh3֍xLhðwcJ#t41b 5:1]s[\nLR *n"`BH2mGlgS[Lg.w 0#_~C9($;=C!.C̢P!\:$D?edhco?C@2g7=X]s z+mȦTtdQi:!0C}s6Ĝ.g"11iA})~5KB+O4|9{|$=c?17p
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1