Some creatures showed themselves to us very generously, others were shy and retiring, and so we had to listen to what other people had reported about them. It has been love of all living things that has kept us on the road and helped us travel safely on the compass-point pathways that lead from north to south and from east to west. Indeed, we did not start out to set ourselves up as any kind of experts. We did not take a microscope or any dissecting tools with us, nor did we wear the sceptic’s sharp-angled spectacles that make all objects under observation appear warped and foolish. When we began this book, we were explorers who had yet to see their first phoenix, but we were astonished at the abundance of magical creatures and the worldwide similarities in the stories and themes that make animals and other beings kin to us all. We are daily familiar with the griffin, the cockatrice, the winged lion and many other magical creatures who guard the buildings of our city.
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Extraordinary creatures of all kinds cavort, peer and grapple on most of the walls wherever we walk around Oxford.
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We live in a city of gargoyles and fabulous beasts.
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