CREATURES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY – THE ERYMANTIAN BOAR

 

There was a dreadful union between the giant immortal Typhon

And the black fearful eyed Echidne, Half serpent, half woman

The terrifying result of this unnatural union was a huge boar

A great strong beast whose capture was Heracles fourth labor

The gigantic boar ravished farmland in the west of Arcadia 

And Heracles had to capture it alive, or he would fail his labor

So, he had to force it into a snowdrift on mount Erymanthus

And snared it with a noose and took it to his cousin Eurystheus