Question

This creature dies after falling into a lake that begins to “throw and shoot forth… flames.” This creature, which represents people who talk during Mass in one interpretation, is “white as… fallen snow, bigger than a hare but smaller than a fox” in a less common description of it. In one novel, a man constantly shows the fewmets of this creature, which pines away when Grummore Grummursum convinces him to leave it. This creature, which killed 11 sons of Esclabor, is also known as the (*) glatisant. (10[1])After her brother rejects her advances, (10[1])a princess sleeps with the Devil to have that brother killed and subsequently gives birth to this creature. (-5[1])The baying of thirty hounds emanates from the belly of this creature. Giraffes may have inspired this creature, which has the head of a (10[1])snake, body of a leopard, and the feet of a hart. For 10 points, Palamedes took over the hunt for what creature from King Pellinore? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: the Questing Beast [or the Bizarre Beast; or the Beste Glatisant before mention] (The novel mentioned is TH White’s Once and Future King. Glatisant refers to the dogs barking from the Questing Beast’s stomach.)
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