Wednesday, October 8, 2014

31 Days of Monsters 2014: Harpy

In Greek mythology, a harpy was a vicious half-bird-half-woman monster that punished evildoers, or anyone who displeased the gods. Famously, Zeus set harpies to plague the blind seer Phineas after he revealed too much about the activities of the gods. Dante imagined a place in Hell filled with harpies that punished suicides.

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