For our next Edinburgh safari, we’re leaving the realms of everyday beasties and going all mythological.
Not for us, though, your run-of-the-mill dragons and workaday phoenixes. We want hybrids joining two or more distinct creatures together in a kind of alternative capital coalition.
If you can identify where the beasties below were found, let us know. If you can find further instances – send us the photos for your chance to win lasting fame.
For the purposes of this strictly relaxed competition, angels don’t count and neither do unicorns unless they've been crossed with something else. Sphinxes are fine so long as they haven’t featured already here.
Pretty much anything else is permissible, so long as it’s: (1) 3D; (2) shaped, sculpted or moulded by human hand; (3) outside and free (i.e. no charge) to view. Examples found anywhere in Edinburgh are welcome.
Send us your findings by noon on 25 September. Happy hunting!
1. And not a drop to drink.
2. An apple a day does not work here.
3. A degree of decoration.
4. Inverted Royal Marine?
5. No cuddle with a guddle.
6. Not from Ambridge.
