Draconcopedes
The medieval Latin term ''draconcopedes'' refers to 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'', he states:''Speculum naturale'', XX.33 (Vol. I, Col. 1478 in the Douai edition of 1624, noted by J.K. Bonnell, "The Serpent with a Human Head in Art and in Mystery Play", ''American Journal of Archaeology'' 1917; see also J.M. Steadma,n "'Sin' and the Serpent of Genesis 3 'Paradise Lost', II, 650-53", ''Modern Philology'', 1957. ("''Draconcopedes'' are great and powerful serpents, with maidenly faces like those of humans, ending in the body of a dragon"). Albertus Magnus () states 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 in ...
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