The ancient Greek myths are full of beings that bear a striking resemblance to the vampires of later folklore.
Unknown artist, "Snail" (c. 1350), The Netherlands, illumination on parchment from Jacob van Maerlant's Der naturen bloeme (image via Wikimedia Commons) "Very often, people think that they're laughing ...
"Co-published by the British Library"--Colophon. Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), 52. SCDIRB copy 390880019622067 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning ...
From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.