Word: hippogriff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scholarship. The reader is invited to consider such symbolic creatures as the Basilisk, a remote cousin of Medusa, which kills with its stare. Closer to home is the Pennsylvania Squonk, which dissolves in its own tears when captured. There is also that symbol of incongruity-or sheer perversity -the Hippogriff. It is half horse and half griffon. But that is only half of it; the griffon itself is already half eagle and half lion...