Characteristics:
- The body resembles a lion
- Having three canine
- The tail shaped like a scorpion sting
- Having a poisonous sting
- Unmounted like a trumpet
Mythologi about manticore originally from Persia, which was originally nicknamed "cannibal" (derived from the ancient middle eastern languages is the word which means Martya human and that means eating Xwar). Manticore itself comes from the English language, the terminology from the Latin mantichora. The legend of the monster spread in mainland Europe and was first described by Ctesias, a psychic from Greece who served the king Artaxerxes II.
Book Description of Greece by a religious scholar of Greek named Pausanias tells of manticore.
Ctesias monster described by the so-called martichoras shaped like a tiger, but three have Fangs and stings in the tail that is used to maintain this monster himself. When injured, he could be fired like a poison arrow that apart from the bow. (Description, xxi, 5)
Today, those people who believe in the existence of manticore believe that this monster occupies forest forests in Asia, especially Indonesia. Manticore is believed capable of killing their victims quickly, with the bite or scratch and then eat the whole body of the victim until the bone bones. The reason some people believe this beast although there has never been evidence that strengthens the evidence is the existence of this monster hunter a very powerful, not seen or heard by the prey.
When there is someone who lost in the woods and can not find his body, maybe it was the work of the manticore.
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