Basilisken, Einhörner und Sirenen

Mixed creatures and monsters, magical and diabolical - an illustrated cabinet of curiosities of the imagination. Fantastic animals, alluring women, wild men, Pflance monsters, wandering stones: The author tells of curious, strange, uncanny and threatening fantastic beings: Inhabitants of the forest, the mountain, the desert, the sea - embodiments of our fears and erotic desires as well as our longing for another world. Dal Lago Veneri leads us through an intoxicating cabinet of mythical creatures and demons that work in Greek mythology as well as in the creation myths of the most diverse regions and cultures and populate our world: from India to the Caucasus, to the Nordic countries and all the way to the Dolomite valleys, the author's immediate home.