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compiled this present volume in order to presentCONTENTS.CHALLENGING THE CHARLATANS.  \nAs a scientific monsterologist,I was keenly this 114-foot sea serpent'skeleton had,inaware of the monstrous frauds that have,on fact,been built by a self-taught palaeontologist**Fabulous Creatures of the World**occasion,been visited on the public.A caseand showman named Albert Koch.He madeBeasts of the Earth.....................iiin point is the fossil of a remarkable creatureit from the bones of numerous zeuglodons,**Unicorn—Chimera—Yeti—Bebemoth,c.*Beasts of Water........................iiinamed Hydrargos,or ‘Ruler of the Seas',a type of extinct whale.Although thewhich was put on display in the Apolloenthralled public were taken in to the grand**Kraken—Hippocamp—Sea Serpent—Bunyip,c.**Saloon,New York City,in 1845.Billed as thesum of fifty cents each,monsterologists wereBeasts of the Air.......................iv  \n'greatest wonder of the antediluvian world’,**Grifin—Hippogrif—Roc—Phoenix,&c.**quick to point out its obvious inauthenticity.Semi-Human Beasts....................v**Merfolk—Spbinax—Cyclops—Centaur;&.*Finding Fabulous Beasts....AppendixIUseful Spells &Charms......Appendix IIHistoric Monsterologists...…Appendix IIThe Work of a Monsterologist...Afterword  \nANCIENT AUTHORS.  \nTales of monsters such as griffins and unicornsby ancient authors including Pliny are usuallyassumed to be based on cases of mistaken identitywith ordinary beasts [see right].However,this isnot always the case,as I intend to demonstrate.  \nGRIFFIN  \nGryps vulgaris  \nMONSTEROLOGY.Mythical:Mongolian Death WormActual:Lindworm  \nSupposedly mythical:Unicorn  \nActual:Rhinoceros  \nSOME beasts really are fictitious.The purple,is entirely real.Admittedly,some reported  \nman-eating,burrowing giant worm known as unicorn sightings are the result of confusion with  \n## FABULOUS BEASTS OF THE WORLD.LOCATIONS &DIRECTIONS.\n\nI abulous beasts are to be found 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