French mythical creatures

“Cryptozoological posters by French illustrator, Camille Renversade.”

The Tibicena, also known as Guacanchas, was a mythological creature of the Guanches, prehispanic inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Tibicenas were imagined to be demons or genies who had the bodies of great wild dogs with red eyes, covered by long, black fur. They lived in deep caves inside the mountains.

From mean dwarves to spiky dragons and scary snail monsters, get to know little-known French mythical creatures.

French artist Camille Renversade creates wonderfully vintage Deyrolle style cryptozoological posters of the most curious creatures that have lived within

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT, ILLUMINATED 13TH CENTURY Leviathan,around 1280.A fish curving round to form a circle. The Leviathan was,according to Talmudic sources,one of the mythical creatures that would be consumed at the messianic banquet awaiting the virtous.From the "North French Miscellany",a Hebrew manuscript written by Benjamin the Scribe.Add 11639 fol.518 v. The British Library, London, Great Britain