Greek Myth: Minotaur

In Greek legend the Minotaur (Minos's Bull),was a fabulous monster of Crete that had the body of a man and the head of a bull. It was the offspring of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a bull.

This was a curse from the God Poseidon as King Minos was meant to sacrifice a snow-white bull sent to him by the god for sacrifice. Instead Minos decided to keep the bull for himself. The outcast son was doomed to wander around the Labyrinth near Minos's palace at Knossos.