ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about animal that may form the actual subject of a myth, of which the entire main theme is taken in literature. Literature is able to rehabilitate the animal by adopting a syntagmatic approach to the myth. It is impossible to list all the occurrences of the serpent even in the mythology of the western hemisphere. The chapter explores the various forms of hybrid monsters that mythology has bequeathed to literature. This applies to the story of the Minotaur, for example, if people consider it as a mechanism involving a monster, a periodic devourer of human flesh, youths and maidens and a labyrinth. It is in the context of sexual passion that the centaur appears, the hybrid monster portrayed as half horse and half human. According to Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus, the cicada was born of Man and when it discovered the Muses.
