Mythology and Folklore UN-Textbook: The Questing Beast

There is a wonderful part of The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester; it's an article about The Questing Beast. There's a background essay, with seven different illustrations in the gallery. Here are my two favorites from that gallery, and you can also learn more at Wikipedia.

Arthur Rackham, from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1917)