This is what's written in Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You about Manticores. Originally documented in Persia, the feared, man-eating manticore, or manticora, has been sighted in places as varied as the jungles of Brazil and Indonesia and, more rarely, the forests of North America and Europe. With the body of a lion and a tail of poisonous spines some reports indicate can be shot like arrows, a manticore is a lethal predator. It eats its victims whole using its