BESTIARIES
(Posted 2009-07-09 13:37:09 by ArchPaladin)

For ease of identification, I really think the word should be spelled
'beastiary' rather than 'bestiary', but I didn't live in the Middle Ages.

I didn't know that people were still preserving the archaic records of
bestiaries, although as with so many other things, it makes sense after the
fact that someone other than me has similar interests.  At any rate, I
stumbled across an online compendium [ http://bestiary.ca/index.html ]
[bestiary.ca] that is a combined bestiary from multiple sources.  It has a
number of interesting entries, although I wouldn't call this an exhaustive
reference just yet.

After poking around at that site for a while, I came to wonder if there was
someplace that did the same for Japanese yokai [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai ] [wikipedia.org].  Sure enough,
there was such a site [ http://www.obakemono.com/ ] [obakemono.com] in the
external links section.

I think both of these sites are a very cool find.  I hope they continue to
develop.

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