Zgripțor - the Romanian Griffin
by Alexandru (Sasha) Bogdan - the Great Wanderer of Valinor Concept art for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe film: Griffin Romanian folk tales are filled with fearsome creatures, ranging from the vampiric moroi and wraiths such as the strigoi, to the serpentine dragons called balauri . Some of these mythical beings are autochtonous conceptions, while others were borrowed from other cultures and given a Romanian spin. In the previous post I tackled the basilisk/vasilisc . So let us now turn to another Roman-Greek addition to the rooster of beasts from Romanian folk tales, in this case, the griffin – a beast that has been featured in a number of fantasy books, films, TV series and games: The Chronicles of Narnia , The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt , The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad etc - or the zgripțor as we call it What is a griffin/zgripțor ? Both griffin ...
