Re: kinokefalos

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> since we are people here from a lot of countries I should like to

ask

> here which are the denominations for Greek "kinokefalos" in other
> languages. Are there such mithological beings in the popular

mithology

> of other folks?

Hmm. Liddell and Scott gives Greek _kunokephalos_ as being 'dog-
headed ape'. I presume that means 'baboon'.

The nearest I can thing of from England is the werewolf, but that is
not the same thing at all.

Richard.