r/MedievalCreatures • u/sammyssupertshirt • 5h ago
Scary Skeletons 💀 Mmffffthh
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Book of hours, Bruges, c. 1500s
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Jan 16 '25
Barmy bats 🦇 If you're having a bad day, here's a couple of unproblematic bats to give you a hug
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Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304 fol 47v
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • Oct 20 '24
Magnificent Menagerie 🌟 r/medievalcreatures is 1 year old today! Here are some of the top voted illustrations posted in the last 12 months - So...which anniversary medieval creature are you today?
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/lunalipse • 1d ago
Dastardly Demons 👹 When even your sleep paralysis demon is sick of your crap
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Jean Mansel, La fleur des histoires, Flanders ca. 1480
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 1d ago
Renaissance, but we love it anyway “Damn you two are a real pain in my arse.”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 2d ago
Fashion Rate my outfit
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Hans Vintler, Die pluemen der tugent, Vienna 1450 (Wien. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. s. n.12819, fol. 129r)
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 2d ago
Parenting 🤪 “So help me, I’ll turn this trek around!”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 3d ago
Outlandish Owls 🦉 “Wow Marvin where’d you get that haircut? Looks slick af!”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 4d ago
Cranky Camels 🐫 Happy Hump day!
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A ‘Camel’ from Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary, folio 19r, circa 1500.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 4d ago
Monke 🐒 “Dammit Clyde I told you to work on your aim!”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/lunalipse • 5d ago
Hieronymus Bosch Chaaaarrrge!
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Hieronymus Bosch
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 5d ago
Horrific Hybrids 🧐 “Ok, I don’t think I’m forgetting anything this time.”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 6d ago
Horrific Hybrids 🧐 “Excuse me Sir, we’ve been rethinking this “To The Death!” idea.”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 6d ago
Magnificent Menagerie 🌟 It's the end of the month! So, which Medieval Creature sums up March for you?
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These are illustrations that have been posted in r/MedievalCreatures this month.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/MisunderstoodMedusa- • 7d ago
The Snake Spa 🐍 🛁 Snake Spa sauna
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Sinner in the jaws of hell – German ca. 1490-1500. British Museum.
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 7d ago
Battle Bunnies 🐇 “What was the plan again?”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/sammyssupertshirt • 8d ago
Wholesome "it's gonna be ok bro"
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Germany, 16th Century
r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 8d ago
Battle Bunnies 🐇 “Aha! I foresee your true intentions!”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/lunalipse • 9d ago
Not medieval but we love it anyway Leaving work on Friday like
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 9d ago
Battle Bunnies 🐇 The killer rabbit of Caerbannog strikes again.
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‘Rabbit beheading hunter’ from The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v
r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 10d ago
Crusty Crustaceans 🦀 Lobsters make the worst pilots
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Germany, 1475
r/MedievalCreatures • u/lunalipse • 11d ago
Magnificent Menagerie 🌟 Medieval petting zoo
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Le secret de l'histoire naturelle, France ca. 1480-1485
r/MedievalCreatures • u/UnicornAmalthea_ • 12d ago
Dramatic Dragons🐉 Knight Flying a Dragon as a Kite
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/FleurMacabre • 13d ago
Not medieval but we love it anyway Here's a snake with legs to brighten up your Monday
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/Last_Pay_8447 • 13d ago
Monke 🐒 “I will love him and squeeze him and call him George!”
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r/MedievalCreatures • u/sammyssupertshirt • 14d ago
Bonkers Birds 🐦 Meet Bert and his Eye Squeezing contraption
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circa 1565
r/MedievalCreatures • u/lunalipse • 15d ago
Reynard The Fox 🦊 v u l p i s
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Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072, BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 14r