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(mediaeval folklore) A legendary being with a human head, and sometimes also human arms and a torso, and the rest of the body of a snake..
For old acquaintance-sake we have stopped some little time with the dragon, before passing on to the Draconcopedes. This is the serpent with a woman’s head that tempted Eve.
In some European Garden of Eden tales, the woman and the serpent are hybridized into a creature referred to as a draconcopedes.
In medieval European folklore the draconcopedes were a species of serpent said to have the body of a snake with the face and breasts of a woman […]
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Draconcopedes means (mediaeval folklore) A legendary being with a human head, and sometimes also human arms and a torso, and the rest of the body of a snake..
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For old acquaintance-sake we have stopped some little time with the dragon, before passing on to the Draconcopedes. This is the serpent with a woman’s head that tempted Eve.
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