They do not know each other and are very poor. There are on earth, and always were, thirty-six righteous men whose mission is to justify the world before God. Our featured entry from this bestiary is the Lamed Wufniks. Iturvuru in his treatise, On Malay Witchcraft (1937), and ends with the Zaratan, a creature from the Book of Animals by al-Jahiz, the ninth-century Moslem zoologist. It begins with the A Bao A Qu, as recorded by C.C. A., Buenos Airesĭescription: This bestiary draws on historical and literary sources from around the world. Original title: El Libro de los Seres Imaginarios Our featured entry from this bestiary is the mushroom man.Īuthors: Jorge Luis Borges with Margaritta Guerro Illustrated in felt by the Keffer family, the book begins in reality and ends in fantasy. Publisher: The Poison Pie Publishing Houseĭescription: A Bestiary of East Tennessee presents an encyclopedia of the creatures, mundane and exotic, dwelling in East Tennessee and other proximate locations. Update: This survey was eventually included in what came to be known as A Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries.

We hope you enjoy perusing this month-long survey of bestiaries as much as we enjoyed compiling it. In the gallery below, we present the cover of the book, and portions of a sample entry, most of which include some illustration of the creature as well as an excerpt of the accompanying description. In the month of June, 2016, the staff has decided to highlight a different bestiary for each day of the month. There are, however, numerous bestiaries that line the halls of the Poison Pie Publishing House, each more illustrious than the next. The publication of A Bestiary of East Tennessee in 2015 was the culmination of a lifelong desire to produce our own book of monsters. The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House has a fondness for bestiaries.

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