1. Human and goat
   Human and horse
2. Human and bull
   Human and fish

Pan is a type of faun, said to have the ears, legs and tail of a goat. He was also often depicted playing a flute. His reputation was as a bit of a lusty, uncivilized fellow.

1. Human with a horse's body
   Human with a lion's head
2. Human with a bull's head
   Human with a fish tail

The Minotaur was a beast that dwelled in the labyrinth on Crete and was routinely fed human sacrifices by King Minos. That was until Theseus came and slain the beast with the help of Minos' daughter.

1. Half woman half turtle
   Half woman half fish
2. Half woman half bird
   Half woman half snake

Myths about mermaids date back thousands of years. There's a commonly held belief these days that many of the things sailors claim to have seen and called mermaids may have actually just been manatees.

1. Echidna
   Ariadne
2. Bellerophon
   The Sphinx

Echidna was often called the mother of monsters due to the fact she literally was the mother of monsters, at least in Greek mythology. Some of her more famous children included Medusa and Cerberus.

1. Eagle + horse + snake
   Snake + hawk + fish
2. Tiger + horse + man
   Lion + goat + snake

The Chimera was another of Echidna's children. It was mostly a lion, but it had a snake for a tail. Inexplicably, there was also a goat's head rising out of the center of its back. The word chimera later came to mean basically anything that was made up of other parts.

1. Lion body + human head + scorpion tail
   Human head + snake body + bat wings
2. Lion head + horse body
   Dragon body + human head

The manticore comes from Persian folklore and is most often depicted as having the body of a lion and the head of a man with many rows of teeth. Sometimes the tail is that of a scorpion, or sometimes just a tail able to shoot poisonous spines.

1. Horse + lion
   Horse + bird
2. Leopard + human
   Serpent + hawk

The Pegasus has been a pretty famous creature from mythology throughout history as it has the appeal of a horse and the appeal of flying, both of which are kind of awesome. It famously helped Perseus on his adventures and is said to be the child of Poseidon and Medusa. Weird family.

1. Snake + horse
   Leopard + human
2. Human + horse
   Human + snake

Centaurs appear quite a bit in mythology as well as fantasy fiction. You can find centaurs in the "World of Warcraft," "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and many others. They're always pretty rough around the edges types, and they always have horse hindquarters.

1. Human head + lion body
   Human head + bull body
2. Snakes head + human body
   Eagle head + lion body

The Great Sphinx of Giza still stands in Egypt as one of the oldest structures in the world. The exact date of construction isn't known, but it is in the neighborhood of 4,500 years ago. That's one old beast.

1. Echidna
   Set
2. Anubis
   Ra

Anubis was also called Anpu and was old even by Egyptian god standards, dating back to 3,100 B.C. or so. Priests would wear Anubis masks during mummification ceremonies, which probably made them even creepier than they already sound.

1. Human + spider
   Human + hyena
2. Human + tiger
   Human + horse

Anansi, also called Ananse and Aunt Nancy can be depicted in several ways but always has some spider present. Sometimes Anansi is fully a spider, sometimes with a human face and sometimes it's a human with eight legs.

1. Turtle
   Seal
2. Octopus
   Horse

A selkie is a creature that looks like a seal in the water, but when it comes on land, it transforms into a human. They come from Scottish folklore and when they come onto land, they literally shed their seal skin to look human, and have to put it back on to return to the sea.

1. Chicken + reptile
   Cat + rat
2. Owl + rabbit
   Dog + turtle

The cockatrice was a nasty little fellow from folklore said to have the head of a rooster and the body of a reptile or a snake. That's not so terrible, except it also could kill things just by looking at them.

1. Man + lion
   Lion + horse
2. Hippotamus + griffin
   Eagle + horse

Not quite Pegasus, a hippogriff was supposed to have the front an eagle and the hindquarters of a horse. It was a symbol of the Greek god Apollo because everyone needs a pet.

1. Kelpie
   Wolpertinger
2. Anubis
   Echidna

By far one of the stranger beasts from folklore, the Wolpertinger is actually famous for tricking tourists. If you look for one, you can likely find a taxidermied specimen made up to look like it was a real animal at some point.

1. Man + bull
   Woman + fish
2. Woman + bird
   Woman + snake

Harpies are half women, half birds from Greek and Roman mythology that were never depicted as particularly pleasant beings. They were known to carry people off never to be seen again, so they were best to be avoided.

1. Perseus
   Bastet
2. Anubis
   Osiris

Bastet had the body of a woman and the head of a domesticated cat. She was the daughter of the gods Ra and Isis. At some point, she also became the wife of the god Anubis. Among the many things, she was known for was being the goddess of perfume.

1. Bull body + hog head
   Horse body + human head
2. Snake body + lion head
   Fish body + eagle wings

The evolution of the catoblepas is a strange one as it did change over time, but many descriptions of it suggest it had the massive body of a bull or buffalo topped by the head of a pig. It could also kill with a look, so watch out for that.

1. Gorgon
   Griffon
2. Peryton
   Minotaur

Borges described the Peryton as a creature from Atlantis with the front half of a stag and the plumage of a bird. Borges said he was working with undiscovered, ancient manuscripts to describe the creature but he probably just made the whole thing up.

1. Frog
   Crocodile
2. Cat
   Jackal

The frog-headed goddess Heqet was the wife of the god Khnum, who was the source of the Nile river. When the Nile flooded, you can imagine how much the local frogs would have enjoyed that and reproduced quite prolifically, which is why Heqet is associated with fertility.

1. Dog face
   Monkey tail
2. Stag horns
   Tiger claws

Cernunnos appears frequently in Celtic folklore as a man with massive stag horns, often surrounded by the animals as well. In many instances he's not actually named, only referred to as a "horned god."

1. Hamster
   Cat
2. Hippopotamus
   Dung beetle

The dung beetle was a pretty important symbol in Ancient Egypt. The beetles lay their eggs in balls of dung and the young stay inside until they are full grown. Because you never see a baby dung beetle, they seemed special to the ancient Egyptians as they just appeared fully formed.

1. Horse + lion
   Lion + eagle
2. Lion + human
   Fish + hyena

With an eagle head and wings and the body of a lion, a griffin has been a symbol of power for a very long time. They were also believed to be the guardians of valuables as well because a guard griffin is more effective than a guard dog.

1. Tawaret
   Khnum
2. Osiris
   Ra

Tawaret was the go-to goddess for pregnant women. She guarded expectant mothers during pregnancy and childbirth and would be worshipped by those who needed her help or protection.

1. Scorpion tail
   Hose hooves
2. Lion head
   Crocodile head

Sobek was a Nile god with the head of a crocodile that likely would have made him a little intimidating. It's said that in temples built for him, there were pools with live crocodiles in them. Sounds like church could have been scary back then.

1. Jackal + frog + eagle
   Tiger + ram + scorpion
2. Lion + hippo + crocodile
   Jackal + dung beetle

Ammit, or Ammut, was a demoness whose name loosely translates to something like "eater of souls" or "devourer of the dead." If someone was deemed unworthy, Ammit would eat their heart and they'd be cursed to wander soulless for eternity.

1. Hippalectryon
   Hippogriff
2. Hippopotamus
   Echidna

Hippalectryon is actually a pretty old creature with references going back at least 3,000 years. It had the front end of a horse and the hind end of a rooster, albeit one in proportion to its front. So basically it had a giant chicken butt.

1. Hippogriff
   Satyr
2. Onocentaur
   Jackalope

A centaur is a human torso on a horse body, and an onocentaur is basically the same thing but a donkey body. This sounds like something we just made up, but it was written about by the mathematician Pythagoras.

1. Shanyang
   Qilin
2. Echidna
   Mogwai

The Qilin is a kind of Chinese dragon, but it's also called a Chinese unicorn sometimes as well. The body is usually a deer or a horse, the head may be a lion or a dragon, there are antlers like from an elk, and it sometimes has scales like a fish or feathers. It's quite the mixed bag.

1. Selkie
   Jackalope
2. Tarasque
   Anansi

The Tarasque hails from Provence in France and was written about in a medieval tale called "Golden Legend." In that story, it lives beside a river and, predictably does bad things to people who get too close.

1. Human + horse + fish + lobster
   Fish + bull + human
2. Horse + lion + seal
   Snake + shark + bat

The remarkably complex Ichthyocentaur has traditional centaur features - it's part man and part horse. It also has a fist tail and lobster claws for horns. The constellation Pisces is actually supposed to be two Ichthyocentaurs.

1. Fish + dog + cat + fox
   Human + dog + snake + owl
2. Wildcat + deer + eagle +ox
   Deer + fox + lion + fish

The Calgreyhound was a mishmash of a wildcat's head, a deer body, eagle feet and an ox or lion hindquarters with ox hooves. It showed up in medieval heraldry, and some noble folk would use it on their coat of arms.

1. Rooster + swallow + goose + duck + tortoise + fish + snake
   Duck + eagle + pigeon + pheasant + fish
2. Chicken + pig + turkey + peacock
   Swan + duck + chicken + cow + human

Fenghuang is an immortal bird and seeing it is supposed to be a good omen when a new Emperor ascends to the throne. Feng is actually male and Huang is female, so the two together is a kind of harmonious ying-yang.

1. Cerberus
   Pegasus
2. Jackalope
   Echidna

The jackalope is infamous in North American folklore as yet another animal that has been created in taxidermy shops in an effort to make it look real. You can buy mounted jackalope heads online and there are a number of websites that will tell you about how they're alleged to be real creatures.

1. Ra
   Anubis
2. Bastet
   Apophis

Ra was one of the chief gods of the Egyptian pantheon and at different times through Egyptian history was actually merged with other gods such as Amun and Horus.