Image in a fresco

[Jindrich Toman]

This looks like Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia, 1540s,a very popular book,
or some copycat along these lines.
Why don't you google:
monsters german medieval
sebastian münster
or:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blemmyes.jpg

Greetings from Michigan, Jindrich Toman



On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Raoul Smith <
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> While traveling to churches and monasteries in the Balkans this past
> summer, I saw an image on a fresco of a headless creature such as the one
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