Saint Christopher - half man, half dog
No really, some people in the Middle Ages believed this!
How on earth did anybody in the Middle Ages come to believe that Saint Christopher was a doghead? A creature that was half human and half dog. Not exactly your traditional image of Saint Christopher, patron saint of travellers.
The phenomenon, for those of you who like fancy words, is called cynocephaly - that is the presence of a canine head on a human …
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