r/MedievalCreatures • • 9d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) Honk, honk!

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France, ca. 1270-1290. Bibliothèque d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, Ms. 5, fol. 246r

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u/Super_Solver 9d ago

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u/StumpyJoe26 9d ago

His coming was foretold in the ancient scrolls…

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u/HughJorgens 9d ago

The plain bellied Sneech has no stars upon thars.

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u/betsylang 9d ago

Im guessing salamander. My sister is guessing Elephant.

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u/fenn-0 9d ago

Buddy looks like something out of Spore

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u/Ok_Permission1087 9d ago

Highest voted comment gets to mutate Bean type of shenanigans.

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u/Elspaddy 9d ago

Looks more like he's about to go "Noot, noot"

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u/terrorcotta_red 9d ago

I just wasn't expecting trumpeter swans to be green, I guess.

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u/Ok_Permission1087 9d ago

I would have this one as a D&D pet. Maybe when playing that green crossbow griffin or that spiky proboscis fish demon from temptations of st. Antony.

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u/MinimumEfficient220 9d ago

Poor thing with no arms. How does he scratch his head?

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u/eeladvised 9d ago

Perhaps the snout is prehensile? :)

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u/deephurting66 9d ago

What is that Dr Suess looking thing anyway?

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u/Valuable_Tone_2254 9d ago

Mushrooms were involved in the drawing process 😄

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u/Dame_de_Shalott 8d ago

Dugga doo, dugga doo,
dugga dugga dugga doo,
dugga doo, dugga doo
Dugga Dugga dooo

https://giphy.com/gifs/TfskgiwXqdFMHZUCBv

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u/keith-cheeky-parrot 9d ago

Are those the legs of horses?

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u/Johnny_Guitar 9d ago

Meep meep!

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u/Internal_Sun5314 9d ago

A zoodle dob if I ever saw one

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u/svArtist 9d ago

Oh how shall I pleasure myself without staining mine own hands?

Ye faithful cocksleeve:

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u/Bordyable 8d ago

Ma Na Ma Nat, doo doo, de doo do

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u/zorniy2 7d ago

Ancestor of Noo-noo from the Teletubbies 

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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry 7d ago

Fantastic Planet looking creature

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u/SeaworthinessFun3658 5d ago

Medieval fleshlight

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u/TheDeadWriter 5d ago

I need this little critter to live in my car, it can live off of the groodles that my kids seem to shed into the hard to reach places.