Sphinx

The Sphinx, itself, was a monster made up of a body of a lion, wings of an eagle, and a breast of a woman. If you cannot solve her riddle, then you will be destroyed. A man named Oedipus, was a traveller in whom in the market, he himself saw the people screaming in fear. He asked one of the people, he said: Why are you screaming? the man said to him: A monster made of lion body, eagle wings and woman's breast came here to destroy us if we cannot solve the riddle she says.

Oedipus showed himself to the Sphinx. The sphinx made a riddle for Oedipus to solve.

What comes in the morning with four legs, on the noon as two legs, and on the evening as three legs.

Oedipus answered: It is a man because when you were still a baby, you crawl. When you were a teen, you walk. And when you were old, you will walk with a cane.

The Sphinx destroyed itself from Oedipus' answer. The people made Oedipus a monarch in their town called as Thebes.