The Mystical Roc

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The Roc creature was mentioned within the text of Sinbad the Sailor and was accepted by Europeans throughout the 16th century as being a genuine creature. Although today the creature is thought as  a mystical creature and the stuff of legends. However, In 1604 Michael Drayton wrote a rather fanciful poem envisaging the roc being taken aboard the Ark:

All feathered things yet ever knowne to men,

From the huge Rucke, unto the little Wren;

From Forrest, Fields, from Rivers and from Pons,

All that have webs, or cloven-footed ones;

To the Grand Arke, together friendly came,

Whose severall species were too long to name.

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