peryton
Sign in to saveThe peryton is a fictional hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird. The peryton was invented by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 Book of Imaginary Beings, using the fictional device of a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript.
Key facts
- Mythical creature.Country
- Atlantis (fictional origin)
- Mythical creature.Region
- Fictional
- Mythical creature.Habitat
- Fictional lands, Atlantis, Fantasy realms
- Mythical creature.Details
- A fictional hybrid combining the features of a stag and a large bird. Said to cast a human shadow until it kills a person, whereupon it begins casting its own shadow.
- Mythical creature.name
- Peryton
- Mythical creature.image
- Perytonmontage.jpg
- Mythical creature.caption
- An artist's impression of a peryton
- Mythical creature.Grouping
- Fantasy creatures
- Mythical creature.Sub_Grouping
- Hybrid
- Mythical creature.Similar_entities
- Furfur, Hippogriff, Pegasus
- Mythical creature.Folklore
- Fakelore
- Mythical creature.First_Attested
- 1957
- Mythical creature.AKA
- Winged stag
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Precursors
- Characteristics
- In science
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
The peryton is a fictional hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird. The peryton was invented by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 Book of Imaginary Beings, using the fictional device of a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript.
== Precursors ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “peryton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.