Griffin

The griffin is a winged monster with a lion's body and an eagle's head, guardians of gold in different mythologies. Griffins, vultures, in Greek mythology, monstrous birds with an eagle's beak and the body of a lion; they. - "Zeus's dogs" - guard gold in the country of Hyperboreans, guarding it from the one-eyed Arimasp (Aeschyl. Prom. 803 next). Among the fabulous inhabitants of the north - the Issedons, Arimasps, Hyperboreans, Herodotus also mentions the Griffins (Herodot. IV 13).
There are also griffins in Slavic mythology. In particular, they are known to guard the treasures of the Ripean Mountains. From the cry of the Griffin flowers wither and the grass withers, and if there is someone alive, then all fall dead.