
Most writers claim that all of these heads are dog-like, but a few writers have described half of the heads as dog-like and the other half are “heads of beasts of all sorts.”Ĭerberus’s tail slowly morphs into a serpent, with a venomous head at the end, and more serpents sprout from his body. He has the body of a dog with shaggy bronze or black fur, but there ends any sort of normality to this monster.Ĭerberus has multiple heads-usually three, although some writers have given him as many as one hundred-with “eyes that flash fire,” “jagged teeth” and three tongues per mouth.

As you might expect of a dog that guards the gates to the underworld, Cerberus is a ghastly monster.
