The phrase "half man half beast" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is often used metaphorically to refer to a person who possesses qualities of both humans and animals. For example: "The crowd roared as the legendary creature, half man half beast, descended from the mountaintop."
There's also operatic bass John Tomlinson on the challenges set by playing the half man half beast in Harrison Birtwhistle's new opera Minotaur; Andrea Risborough on playing a young Margaret Thatcher in BBC 4's The Long Walk to Finchley, the heroine of Channel 4's The Devil's Whore, and co-starring with Kenneth Brannagh in Chekhov's Ivanov.
This sign is represented by the symbol of the half man, half beast symbol of the Archer who flings his arrows at the scorpion's heart--and the mythological figure of the Centaur (i.e. half man and half beast).
"Scenes From Goethe's 'Faust' " is half man, half beast, a failed escape from the concert stage.
He's rescued by an exotic Caribbean sea creature, half man, half beast, whose perpetual state of erotic excitement is the source of the channel's turbulence.
So he — Mallarmé — had written a poem called "The Afternoon of a Faun". Now this faun here is not f-a-w-n, the little baby deer-type fawn, but f-a-u-n, a sort of randy satyr, half man, half beast, who spends his afternoon in pursuit of sexual gratification in the heat of the midday sun — so it's a bit more sexually supercharged than the story of Bambi.
Some types are common enough to have been given names: the Groupies, drunk and vicious, have been bound into one massive body, while the feral Beasts are half man, half animal.
Like a cross between Hieronymus Bosch and the Douanier Rousseau, Carrington creates an alternate universe populated by hybrid creatures, half-man, half-beast, frolicking in a fantastical landscape.
Mr. Villaume, a native of France, speculated that presenters might be intimidated by its half-man, half-beast quality — it's as much a ballet as an opera — and that the French are "bad at defending their own repertoire".
Vaslav Nijinsky photographed as a half-man, half-beast in "l'Après-Midi d'un Faune," or his lithe limbs caught by Picasso in a few pencil lines, was symbolic of the great jump of Romantic 19th-century ballet into the new century.
(And there certainly wasn't any half-man half-beast date rape in the novel, either).
The cult, who has regularly pillaged the countryside, is led by a half-man half-beast named Jagu.
