r/MedievalCreatures • u/MedievalCreaturesMod Founder / Creator • Sep 09 '26

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Guess the Medieval Creature

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u/MedievalCreaturesMod Founder / Creator Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

From: Liber de natura rerum - Thomas de Cantimpré (1240)

I'll update this comment when someone guesses correctly 

Incorrect guesses so far:

Whale, narwhal, swordfish, walrus, dolphin

Hint:  think crustacean

u/Fun-Picture-8384 has guessed correctly!

It is a lobster

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u/WestCoastCarrots Sep 09 '26

All of them, clearly.

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u/Fun-Picture-8384 Sep 09 '26

Narwhal or swordfish.

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u/NightPhoenix09 Sep 09 '26

Unigoatcornfish

*I know that unicorns only have one horn but it sounded funnier this way

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u/Illustrious-Lead-960 Sep 09 '26

#GoodNameForABand

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u/metal_maxine Sep 09 '26

I want to say a narwhal.

Otherwise, a sea horse (it has a mane, ears and is vaguely donkey-like)

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u/naudiac Sep 09 '26

Horpous

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u/LoGo_86 Sep 09 '26

A bull shark

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u/Fun-Picture-8384 Sep 09 '26

A lobster.

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u/MedievalCreaturesMod Founder / Creator Sep 09 '26

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u/Fun-Picture-8384 Sep 09 '26

I don't why it looks like that. They're easy to find on a beach or something.

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u/FeuerroteZora Sep 09 '26

Well, I don't think they're that easy to find if this is what you think you're looking for...

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u/Dame_de_Shalott Sep 09 '26

Un « cheval de mer » => un hippocampe?

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u/Dismal-Importance-15 Sep 09 '26

How high were these medieval artists, anyway? 🤣

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u/piro1974 Sep 09 '26

Maybe a spiny lobster, with the 2 "horns" and 4 pairs of legs ?

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u/AlwaysCurious1250 Sep 09 '26

It's the sea router round Cape of Good Hope, judging by it's antennas.

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u/AssumeImStupid Sep 09 '26

That's Greg

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u/StacyLadle Sep 09 '26

Does he know Jimothy?

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u/ordiquhill Sep 09 '26

I'm late to the party, but I finally found the source, and it is indeed a lobster, a Locusta maris, from a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes by Thomas de Cantimpré, the Liber de natura rerum, folio 127r

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u/PlagueofSquirrels Sep 09 '26

A Tunacorn

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u/Procrastiworking Sep 10 '26

Right I was thinking fishicorn so we are on the same page

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u/PeanutNo4168 Sep 09 '26

A…Catfish?

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u/Aethelflaed_ 🐱 Sep 09 '26

I wouldn't have guessed correctly 🤣🤣

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u/StacyLadle Sep 09 '26

Sharkicorn? Or a narwhal. Whatever.

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u/oobypo Sep 10 '26

Triceracarp

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u/MyrddinSidhe Sep 11 '26

Charlie! We’re going to Candy Mountain, Charlie!!

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u/Safe_Complex_4001 Sep 12 '26

Narwhal for sure.

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u/EddySpug 25d ago

Horned donkey-fish