by admin | Jan 29, 2018 | Greek, Harry Potter
The centaur is up there with my all-time favourite greek mythological creatures – maybe because of anthropomorphic/human qualities, or perhaps because of my appreciation of horses. Either way, they right up there with the best on the imaginary creatures list....
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Greek, Harry Potter, Italian
The Basilisk is a popular imaginary creature of mine and one that I vividly remember from my childhood. In one book of creatures that I had, the basilisk was portrayed as having the head of a chicken or cockerel and the body of a snake – though this is not...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Greek
Acephali simply means “headless” or “without head” in Ancient Greek (from Ancient Greek: ἀκέφαλοι “headless”, singular ἀκέφαλος akephalos from ἀ- a-, “without”, and κεφαλή kephalé, “head”). And as such, if...
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