This is a centaur. Greek and Roman mythology contain a number of fantasy beasts.
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Shown here is a dragon, which almost resembles a dinosaur. One wonders as to whether the people who wrote these stories knew of dinosaur skeletons being found.
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Shown here is an atom. There has been a great deal of pseudoscience in the area of chemistry. Some of this persists to this day. Some of it is in the form of quackery. Unjustified powers are sometimes attributed to drugs by salesmen.
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Shakespeare's play MacBeth featured witches making a potion. This was phoney science, and yet during the middle ages there may have been elderly women who did make potions, probably either as early chemistry or as early medicine.
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The real witches and wizards did not have magical powers, but were probably gypsies and alchemists who were comparable to those people now called pharmacists. They did not fly on broomsticks as the legend indicates.
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This is Cerebrus, the mythical three-headed dog.
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Shown here is a drawing of a sea monster. Again this creature resembles a dinosaur. Creatures like this may have existed at one time.
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Astronomy has had a long history of pseudoscience. At one time people thought that the earth was flat. Even today people believe in horoscopes.
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There is some pseudoscience in nutrition. There is some truth to the old adage "You are what you eat." However, not all nutritional claims are valid.
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There may have been more false theories in psychology than in almost any other field, except possibly for astrology. The brain is the seat of the emotions. This was recognized by Hippocrates, Meynert, and many others. Willis was a British anatomist who was one of the earliest to document the modern view.
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