Renaissance writers still associated human-animal hybrid monsters with Muslim territories

Evidence

Encounters with the monstrous races and creatures that lived in the East continued to occupy the European imaginaire. Andre Thevet’s description of a Red Sea “monster of the size and proportion of a tiger without a tail, but [with] the face of a well-formed man” is but one example of the human-animal hybrids that continued to be associated with Muslim territories. Turks figure prominently in these stories of monsters, due to the many geographical spaces they occupied as well as the threat that Ottoman power posed to the Europeans. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 237

Categorization

• XREF: The Red Sea tiger-man hybrid against medieval monstrous races the reader has already catalogued in earlier chapters — shows continuity of the hybrid monster figure. — connects to: The category of the grotesque originally named human-animal-plant hybrids defying classical logic
• DEFINE: Concrete example of the human-animal hybrid monster category as it persists into the Renaissance.