This week the girls take aim at Mythical Creatures...
Mythical creatures are the most fascinating of beasts! Often discussed in popular culture as well as well-known tales throughout the ages, mythical creatures are most interesting as they often possess similar features to creatures that exist among us. This week the girls take a look at some mythical creatures and their most interesting features and history.
But first, what were we drinking?
Sarah was drinking Cass Beer
Available from Dan Murphy's
Amy was drinking Coraggioso Nero D'Avola
Available from Aldi
Bianca was drinking
Sarah opens with the night's topic and gives a couple of examples of what a mythical creature is. Examples are the Bunyip and the Manticore. She then jumps into her segment of the Satyr, mythical creatures from Greek Mythology who are often mistaken for fauns.
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| Phil the satyr |
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| Faun |
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| Mt Tumnus |
Amy with her very limited knowledge of anything remotely fantasy-based picked a mythical creature called a Harpy. Harpies hail from Greek Mythology and have the body of a bird and the face of a woman. While the Harpy has changed over time one fact remains, they are bad-asses and have fun torturing humans.
Bianca covered the super cute little being. The Jackalope.
We discovered this animal is mostly found in North America and has been up for Wyoming's state animal several times... Seriously Wyoming, just accept the Jackalope already!
We also learned that the Jackalope can mimic human voices and is very ferocious. There are also places in Douglas Wyoming where you can buy Jackalope milk! although the New York Times questions its authenticity on grounds that milking a jackalope is known to be fraught with risk.
Jackalope Statue - Douglass, Wyoming
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| Illustration from Animalia Qvadrvpedia et Reptilia (Terra) by Joris Hoefnagel in the 16th century. |
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| German Wolpertinger (1507) Variant regional spellings of the name include Wolperdinger, Woipertingers, and Volpertinger. They are part of a larger family of horned mammals that exist throughout the Germanic regions of Europe, such as the Austrian Raurackl, which is nearly identical to the German Wolpertinger. |
In this episode, we also properly discussed our leathery-feathered friend the Lizard Duck.
Here are some of our fun facts about the beastie:
- Measures about 2 feet in height at full adult development, don't worry no horse-sized lizard ducks to fight and weight averages about 10kg at full growth too.
- Can fly at heights of 30.8km or 100,000 feet for those playing at home and have been known to damage rockets much like a wombat or deer does to a car.
- They are intersex animals having a male species a female species and a Shim. Now, the shim is the most feared of the species, one murdered Sarah's parents, that's why we call her Batman.
- Like its distant relative the Duck, the Lizard Duck has multiple eyelids but when it blinks a certain way it can see infrared, like the predator.
- It eats both lizard and duck food but has been known to hunt and consume medium-sized mammals.
- It has a claw on each foot that can administer paralyzing venom.
- When threatened it can shoot a stream of acid-like feces up to 100 ft at the speed of a bullet (around 2736 Kilometers/hour or 1700 miles/hour).
- They can change color depending on their mood.
- They tend to migrate north in winter but only if the first day of winter falls on a Tuesday.
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