As the human race emerged from the Middle Ages into the start of modernity, we learned more about the world around us. We also took some wild flights of fancy, however. The humanoid creatures we ...

Medieval Europe was filled with terrifying legends and monstrous creatures that haunted the imaginations of its people. In ...

In the Middle Ages, these fearsome monsters were adopted from antiquity and adapted to fit the mindset of the time. In A.D. 313, the Edict of Milan established legal tolerance for Christianity ...

Augustine’s ideas had an impact on how animals and monsters would later be understood in the Middle Ages. Asa Mittman ... of intersection between the human and animal worlds.

During the Middle Ages, dragons more often figured in accounts about the lives of saints and religious figures than stories of heists and adventures. Photo illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos ...

European maps from the Middle Ages are full of strange lands, legendary races and fabulous monsters. Only the Church with the help of God was able to provide protection against these horrors. The ...

“Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders” takes the visitor on a jaunt through Europe’s Middle Ages via its beasties ... blemmyes—humanoids with no heads, their faces instead on ...

Last week’s conference of yeti experts in the Siberian town of Tashtagol prompted RFE/RL staff in Prague to take another look at hairy humanoids. Inclined to skepticism, we nevertheless bring ...

If “Newt” and “Bill” are indicators, the gargoyle is getting a new lease on life.In the Middle Ages, these fantastic creatures were thought to be fallen angels and only turned up as water ...

If you are a parent of an eight-year-old girl you are likely to meet unicorns on a daily basis. Multicoloured unicorns with rainbow-hued manes and tails on T-shirts and pyjamas and drawings stuck ...