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In the folklore of medieval Europe, the Calopus was the name given to a beast with the body of a horned wolf whose head and body sported spines like a porcupine. Because of these copious spines, it frequently became caught in undergrowth, thus enabling the unwary traveller to run off before it could kill or maim with its horns. Although the Calopus was believed to live along the banks of the Euphrates in what is now Iran, the only place it is most commonly seen today is upon the armorial bearings of heralds.