For this topic, I could not resist mentioning the curious figure of Saint Christopher. He's a well loved saint often found in art and in lockets, pictured as a bearded man depicted carrying a child across a river. Unknown to him, the child was really Jesus Christ. However, Saint Christopher is shown as always having the head of a dog in eastern Orthodox churches. Why is this? Was he really a sort of Dogman or a werewolf? The term for a dog headed looking human is Cynocephali. This is how many early Medieval art forms have made him out to be. It must be said that he was a warrior and a Canaanite, regarded as giant in stature, belonging to a race of humanoids with dog heads. Many early church art, show people of these dog headed features.
More on Saint Christopher at Medievalist
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