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HELMETED BIRD MONSTER This helmeted bird monster is pulled from the Garden of Earthly Delights. It's located in the lower right of this link. The monster is carrying a pencil box and an inkpot in its beak, in which the nun, decaying into a pig, is dipping her pen. A severed foot is swinging from the bird's helmet referring to the horrible corporal punishments which could be expected in hell. The pig, indeed an indictment against the decay of clergy life, is tempting the man who is sitting beside him and it appears that he is drawing up a contract. Is the man possibly selling his soul?


MONSTER PLAYING THE HARP This creature with its monstrous skull is riding on a peculiarly plucked goose-like creature. He is playing his harp, here as a symbol for one of the many temptations to which mankind is exposed and which Saint Anthony so bravely resisted. Even in those days, making music could apparently lead to lecherous behaviour.

Bizzare Action figures based on the paintings of Heronimus Bosch (+1516). Bosch painted demons and scenes from hell. Many of his motifs utilize heraldic symbols.