They haunted our nights when we were children.
The monsters in fairy tales, those stories we were told in the evening before sleeping, took a toll on our dreams.
Terrifying, gigantic, massive ... They were the cause of troubled nights.
But where do these evil creatures come from?
To discover
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Take the Minotaur.
Half-man, half-bull, we see him in Greek myths, but also in Virgil and Ovid, Dante, and more recently in the
“Hunger Games” series
, whose story is inspired by the myth of Theseus.
The latter sent every nine years a phalanx of young people in a labyrinth to fight the Minotaur.
Python, Cerberus, Ladon ... These monstrous creatures flourish in mythology.
For Halloween, the editorial team invites you to (re) discover them with a test.
Will you be faultless?
