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manticore. The manticore, a vampiric, man-eating monster of ancient times, takes its name from the Persian martya, “man,” and xvar, “to eat.” The mythical monster is first men- tioned by the Greek physician Ktesias in the 5th century b.c. It was usually represented as a monster the size of a horse with the body and claws of a lion, but it was depicted in many ways, sometimes with the head of a man and the breasts of a woman. |