one-armed-one-legged-body
morphological
Figures bearing this motif (4)
Fachan · salience 0.95
“The fachan of Irish and Scottish Highland tradition is built on the arithmetic of one: one hand protruding from the ridge of its chest, one leg from its haunch, one eye in the front of its face, and one tuft of hair on its head — of which the Gaelic teller says it were easier to pull a mountain up by the root than to bend that tuft.”
Fachen
“With its singular arm and leg, this monstrous entity defies conventional laws of locomotion, propelling itself across vast distances through a series of powerful, erratic leaps and bounds.”
Nasnas
“The Nasnas is described as having only half a body: one eye, one arm, one leg, and half a face or torso, split down the midline as though a whole person had been cut in two.”