African flying creatures in The Book of Imaginary Beings editions

Record summary

Borges’s The Book of Imaginary Beings remained widely available in revised editions during 1990–2009 and is a useful lead for tracing how African supernatural or animal-like figures entered modern literary reference culture. Relevant entries may concern bird-like, airborne or storm-associated beings, but the work is a compilation of texts and traditions, not a report archive. Its comparative value lies in genre, translation and editorial selection. Verification should identify the particular edition, cited antecedent and whether the figure is African, diasporic or merely analogized by the editor.