A cross-animal entity known as the Questing Beast or the Beast Glatisant can be found in numerous mediaeval works of Arthurian mythology and contemporary works that draw inspiration from them. In the French prose cycles and as a result in the quasi-canon of Le Morte d Arthur, the pursuit of the Beast is the focus of quests that King Pellinore and his family attempt in vain before Sir Palamedes and his allies successfully complete. The unusual animal has the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion, the head and neck of a snake and the feet of a hart i.e. a male red deer. It gets its name from the loud noise it makes from its belly, which is described as sounding like that of — thirty couple hounds questing. The French word Glapissantt, which means Yelping or Barking, particularly of little dogs or foxes, is connected to the word Glatisant. The Creature makes appearance to the young King Arthur in the Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin tale after he had had a relationship with his half-sister Morgause and gave birth to Mordred. It was because Arthur and Morgause had no idea that they were related to each other when the depraved act was done. Just as Arthur is waking up from a terrifying dream that predicts the downfall of the realm by Mordred, he spots the beast sipping from a pool. King Pellinore then approaches him and confides that it is the mission of his his family to pursue the beast. The Beast was bore by a human lady, a princess who yearned after for her own brother, according to Merlin. She had slept with a demon who had made a vow to make the lad fall in love with her, but the demon tricked her into saying that her brother had raped her. The brother was punished by his father by having dogs tear him apart. However, before he passed away, he made a prediction that his sister would bear a child, an abomination, that would sound like the pack of dogs that were about to murder him. Eventually the Saracen Knight Palamedes pursues and hunts down the Beast in the Post-Vulgate, the Prose Tristan, and the portions of Malory based on those writings. [Information and Image Credit : Questing_Beast, Wikipedia] [Image: The Questing Beast as seen in illustration by Arthur Rackham for The Romance of King Arthur (1917), written by Alfred W. Pollard] [The Work (Image) is in the Public Domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the life of Author plus 70 years or fewer. The Work (Image) is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1927; (Please Relate to Individual Image URL for More Usage Property)] [Original Source Image URL :
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