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[[Image:Hippogryph.jpg|thumb|Ancient fresco]] | |||
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. | |||
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. | |||
The Hippogriff figured in several of the legends of Charlemagne as a mount for some of the knights. | |||
==See also== | |||
[[Griffin]] | |||
[[Category:Fabulous beasts]] | |||
[[Category:Hybrids]] | |||
Revision as of 18:18, 18 April 2007
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.
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.
The Hippogriff figured in several of the legends of Charlemagne as a mount for some of the knights.