--Manticore, "man-monster", all-consuming of people--

The manticore has its origin in Persian mythology but also it appears in books of medieval beasts, derivatives of Greek and Roman writers.

One is a creature, a type of monster with human head, in most of the occasions describes it with horns.

It has a body of red color, frequently of a lion. In its mouth it lodges three rows of teeth in superior maxilar and other three in the inferior one, which are strong and powerful.

Normally it has the tail of a scorpion or a dragoon, with the surprising ability and to be able to shoot poisonous thorns, which have the capacity to immobilize the prey or definitively to clear the life to them.

In some writings it appears with the wings of a bat and its size can vary until reaching the one of a horse.

In most of the stories one describes them like man-monster. Body of lion, human face and the tail would be a striker pin with arrow end.

A Greek historian affirmed that its face was the one of a man of blue eyes and red skin like the cinnabar. He says that if attacks to it from the distance, it fixes its tail as if an arc one was and if they attack to it behind it is straightened and it aimed in line straight at the distance of one hundred feet.

An interesting monster, that even says itself has the faculty to imitate the human speech, whose name: manticore, means “all-consuming of people”.