page_title: Draconcopedes
hierarchical_section_title: Draconcopedes
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Antica incisione nello "Speculum naturale" di Vincenzo di Beauvais raffigurante un dracontopode.
context_page_description: The medieval Latin term draconcopedes is a beast mentioned in some medieval zoologies.
  Vincent of Beauvais describes this beast as a vast serpentine creature with the head, face and breasts of a woman. In the Speculum naturale: Draconcopedes serpentes magni sunt, et potentes, facies virgineas habentes humanis similes, in draconum corpus desinentes.
  Albertus Magnus in his On Animals:
  The draconcopedes are what the Greeks call a large serpent of the third class and of the dragon genus which, they say, has the maidenly face of an unbearded man.
  Charles Dickens, in his Household Words, Volume 12, 1855, cites Bede as his source that this is the describes this is "the serpent with a women's head which tempted Eve."
context_section_description: The medieval Latin term draconcopedes is a beast mentioned in some medieval zoologies.
  Vincent of Beauvais (c.1190–1264) describes this beast as a vast serpentine creature with the head, face and breasts of a woman.  In the Speculum naturale: Draconcopedes serpentes magni sunt, et potentes, facies virgineas habentes humanis similes, in draconum corpus desinentes.
  Albertus Magnus (c.1200-1280) in his On Animals:
  The draconcopedes are what the Greeks call a large serpent of the third class and of the dragon genus which, they say, has the maidenly face of an unbearded man.
  Charles Dickens, in his Household Words, Volume 12, 1855, cites Bede as his source that this is the describes this is "the serpent with a women's head which tempted Eve."
caption: Image of Dracocopede by Vincent of Beauvais in his Speculum Naturale
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