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| [[Image:Hippogryph.jpg|thumb|Ancient fresco]]
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| The hippogryph, living far beyond the seas in the Rhiphaean Mountains, is the result of the rare breeding of a male gryphon and a filly. It has the head, wings and front legs of a gryphon, and the back and hind legs of a horse. It is a large powerful creature that can move through the air more swiftly than ligthning.
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| Griffins are traditionally regarded as having an antipathy for horses. Therefore the '''hippogriff''', being the offspring of a horse and a griffin, is a doubly impossible being.
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| The Hippogriff figured in several of the legends of Charlemagne as a mount for some of the knights.
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| ==See also==
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| [[Griffin]]
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| [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]
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| [[Category:Hybrids]]
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