Manticore



Manticores are low-level demonic creatures with super-human strength and speed. They have venomous claws and the ability to shimmer. They have a reptilian appearance and communicate with high-pitched cries. Manticores tend to travel in packs and have yellow blood. Sometimes manticores mate with humans to create hybrids so they can blend in. They kill their mates after conception and raise the children as one of them. Before the Charmed Ones knew of their existence, there was no known vanquishing potion.

Little Monsters
Piper once tried to confront a demon in an alleyway, but a manticore got to him first. The manticore paralyzed the demon with her venomous claws and began to store parts of his flesh (to feed on). When the manticore noticed the presence of The Charmed Ones, she attacked them. Piper tried to blow up the manticore, but she failed too, the manticore was resistant to her power. When Paige tried, she orbed an electrical wire at it, killing the manticore. The sisters inspect the environment and to their own surprise find a baby, wrapped in a blanket. Although the baby had a human appearance, his tongue looked snake-like. The sisters now knew that they had killed this baby manticores mother.

The manticores attempted to reacquire the baby as well as a beast (who was later revealed to be his father who had transformed himself to combat the manticores). Not knowing who the beast really was Paige and Phoebe helped the manticore kill the beast and reacquire the baby. Piper was kidnapped by the beast and discovered his identity and told Leo to heal him after he returned to his human form. The Charmed ones then found the pack within the underworld and making sure the baby was out of harms way threw potions stronger then the ones they used on the Source. The manticore pack was killed and the manticore baby was returned to his human father, Derek to be raised normally.

Appendices
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Manticore

 * Vicious demons with supernatural
 * strength and venomous claws. Manticores
 * communicate in high pitched cries and
 * tend to travel in packs.

Appearances
The Manticores appeared in a total of 1 episode throughout the course of the series.


 * Season 6
 * Little Monsters