Editing Hippogriff (section)

==Description==
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Of the heraldic representations of the hippogriff, [[Arthur Charles Fox-Davies]] states that hybrid fantastical creatures' depictions are "ugly, inartistic, and unnecessary. Their representation leaves one with a disappointed feeling of crudity of draughtsmanship."<ref name="Fox-Davies2007">{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=A Complete Guide to Heraldry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSeEWjQCTIAC&pg=PA232|access-date=31 May 2015|year=2007|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Inc.|isbn=9781602390010|pages=232–}}</ref> [[John Vinycomb]] states that the hippogriff is not used in the British heraldic tradition.<ref name="Vinycomb1969">{{cite book|last=Vinycomb|first=John|title=Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T8jTz8spvjoC&pg=PT123|access-date=31 May 2015|year=1969|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=9781465552556|pages=123–}}</ref>[[File:Orlando Furioso 9.jpg|thumb|200px|Hippogriff, illustration by [[Gustave Doré]] for ''Orlando furioso''.]]
[[Ludovico Ariosto]]'s poem, ''[[Orlando furioso]]'' (1516) contains the following description (canto IV):

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'''XVIII'''
No fiction wrought magic lore,
But natural was the steed the wizard pressed;
For him a filly to griffin bore;
Hight hippogryph. In wings and beak and crest,
Formed like his sire, as in the feet before;
But like the mare, his dam, in all the rest.
Such on Riphaean hills, though rarely found,
Are bred, beyond the frozen ocean's bound.

'''XIX'''
Drawn by enchantment from his distant lair,
The wizard thought but how to tame the foal;
And, in a month, instructed him to bear
Saddle and bit, and gallop to the goal;
And execute on earth or in mid air,
All shifts of manege, course and caracole;
He with such labour wrought. This only real,
Where all the rest was hollow and ideal.
}}

According to [[Thomas Bulfinch]]'s ''Legends of Charlemagne'':
{{quote|text=Like a griffin, it has the head of an eagle, claws armed with talons, and wings covered with feathers, the rest of its body being that of a horse. This strange animal is called a Hippogriff. The hippogriff is said to be an evil spirit resting and possessing its soul in that of a horse and griffon.<ref>[[Thomas Bulfinch]], [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4927 ''Legends of Charlemagne''], 1863.</ref>}}