Camel
The camel denotes temperance, endurance, humility, obedience, and royal dignity; Iranian imagery links it to the dragon-serpent, while Roman coins personify Arabia.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 2 figures (1 is this, 1 carries it)
- Traditions
- European folklore (general) (1)Moroccan folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Allocamelus is European folklore (general)
why
Originating in medieval bestiaries, Allocamelus is a hybrid of a camel and an ass.
- Aisha Qandisha bears Moroccan folklore
why
In Moroccan and Amazigh (Berber) folklore, Aisha Qandisha is a shapeshifting jinniya who appears as a beautiful woman but conceals goat or camel hooves beneath her skirts, luring and dominating the men she encounters.