#Head of the snake quest series
A Questing Beast appears in the novel and subsequent TV series The Magicians, but this beast is instead a reference to the White Stag from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Here it is also hunted by King Pellinore as part of his family's tradition and burden. The Questing Beast also appears in the Thursday Next novel series by Jasper Fforde, although it is not described.The Questing Beast appears in " Le Morte d'Arthur", the first season finale of the BBC's series Merlin.A 1967 television episode of Lost in Space features the Questing Beast pursued by Sir Sagramonte.White explains that this is why it is Palomides who is seen pursuing the beast later in Malory's work. Later, the Beast falls in love with Sir Palomides, who briefly disguised himself and Sir Grummore as the beast herself in order to raise Pellinore's spirits when he is pining for his lover. Galapas ends up barricaded in his topmost tower, shrieking "let go of me you awful animal", and shouting to be rescued by the Fire Brigade. There, King Pellinore is imprisoned by Galapas the giant, but he is saved by the Beast who turns up to rescue him-as well as Merlin and Arthur, who happen to be there at the time. This account also appears in slightly different form in the original version of The Sword in the Stone. However, it turns out later that the beast is pining away for lack of attention, so King Pellinore nurses it back to health and resumes his Sisyphean hunt. (Pellinore is more of a comic character as described by White than a great hunter or knight.) Having searched fruitlessly all his life for the Beast, Pellinore is convinced by his friend Sir Grummore Grummursum to drop his quest. As King Pellinore describes it, the hunt of the Beast has always been the burden of the Pellinores, and all Pellinores are in fact trained for the hunt from birth-a training which does not seem to extend much beyond finding the Beast's fewmets. White re-envisions the Questing Beast's role in his novel The Once and Future King. The Beast appears in some other works as well, including stories written in French, Galician, Spanish, and Italian. Gerbert de Montreuil provides a similar vision of the Beast in his Continuation of Perceval, the Story of the Grail, though he says that it is "wondrously large" and interprets the noise and subsequent gruesome death by its own offspring as a symbol of impious churchgoers who disturb the sanctity of Mass by talking. The noise from its belly is the sound of its offspring who tear the creature apart from the inside the author takes the beast as a symbol of Christ, destroyed by the followers of the Old Law, the Twelve Tribes of Israel. There, it is described as pure white, smaller than a fox, and beautiful to look at. The earlier Perlesvaus, however, offers an entirely different depiction of the Beast than the best known one, given above. The Beast's story can be interpreted as a symbol of the incest, violence and chaos that eventually destroys Arthur's kingdom. But his conversion to Christianity allows Palamedes relief from his endless worldly pursuits, and he finally slays the creature during the Grail Quest after he, Percival, and Galahad have chased it into a lake. It is at first a futile venture, much like his love for Tristan's paramour Iseult, offering him nothing but hardship. Later on in the Post-Vulgate, the Prose Tristan, and the sections of Malory based on those works, Saracen knight Palamedes hunts the Beast. Before he died, however, he prophesied that his sister would give birth to an abomination that would make the same sounds as the pack of dogs that were about to kill him. Their father had the brother torn apart by dogs as punishment. She slept with a devil who had promised to make the boy love her, but the devil manipulated her into accusing her brother of rape.
Merlin reveals that the Beast had been born of a human woman, a princess who lusted after her own brother. He is then approached by King Pellinore, who confides that it is his family quest to hunt the beast. Arthur sees the beast drinking from a pool just after he wakes from a disturbing dream that foretells Mordred's destruction of the realm. The account from Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin, which was taken up by Thomas Malory for his seminal Le Morte d'Arthur, has the Beast appear to the young King Arthur after he has had an affair with his half-sister Morgause and begotten Mordred (they did not know that they were related when the incestuous act occurred). Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur (1917) The Questing Beast in Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W.
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