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The Manticore (Mantichora) as illustrated in Edward Topsell's History of Four Footed Beastes
"A triple row of teeth meeting like the teeth of a comb, the face and ears of a human being, grey eyes, a blood-red color, a lion's body, inflicting stings with its tail like a scorpion...with a special appetite for human flesh." -Pliny the Elder
"The manticore was also attributed with having a voice that was the mixture of pipes and a trumpet. The beast is very swift and makes very powerful leaps. The manticore is reputed to roam in the jungles of India, and is known to have an appetite for humans. Like its cousin, the Sphinx, it would often challenge its prey with riddles before killing."
-quoted from www.monstrous.com
2. Butoh
Butoh performers being creepy, yet chic
"We are between sanity and insanity, beauty and ugliness. Good and evil don't matter; emotion lurshes from serenity to rage without warning. East and West, too, have merged: Leering Japanese ghosts waltz to Edith Piaf; a forest hag dressed for a Versailles ball strikes wild kabuki poses. Fear turns frolicksome at a soiree deep inside a nuclear-fallout shelter." -quoted from Eric Prideaux, www.pripix.com
"It was a short piece, without music, and it raised a scandal. In the piece a young boy (Yoshito Ohno) enacted sex with a chicken by strangling it between his thighs. In the darkness that followed a man - Tatsumi Hijikata - approached the boy. Since then butoh is called shocking, provocative, physical, spiritual, erotic, grotesque, violent, cosmic, nihilistic, cathartic, mysterious." -quoted from Dance of Darkness, by Harmen Sikkenga, www.butoh.net
more later.
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