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A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.
From legends and lore to books and short stories and beyond, here is explored the cultural icon and influence that is the dragon; the greatest and most famous of mythical creatures that inhabits our dreams, haunts our nightmares and has forever left a permanent mark on the cultures of man.
The How to Train Your Dragon Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia all about the How to Train Your Dragon book series and film franchise that anyone can edit. Founded on February 24, 2009. We currently have 6,301 articles, 110,131 files, 1,135,069 dragons trained, and 35 dragon trainers.
Mythology is the category for all dragons from real world folklore and religious stories: from dragon gods to legends of dragons being slayed, from moon-eating serpents to sun-eating demons, from hoopsnakes to gigantic flaming serpent, the world has a lot of mythology to offer!
Dragons are powerful, mythical creatures, typically depicted as gigantic, flying serpents/lizards or other tetrapods with magical, spiritual, or supernatural qualities. Most dragons are distinguished between the winged Western dragons (derived from various European folk traditions) or Eastern...
Dragons were ancient, intelligent, powerful creatures, as feared as they were admired in Middle-earth. Their exact origin is debated, though it was clearly stated that they were created by Morgoth in some sense, millennia before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The Chinese dragon (Chinese: 龍; pinyin: lóng), also loong, is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture at large. [1] Chinese dragons have many animal-like forms such as turtles and fish, but are most commonly depicted as snake-like with four legs.
Dragons (or wyrms)[5] were very powerful and magical creatures.[3] There were several types of dragons,[2] the most common of which were chromatic and metallic, which were evil and good respectively.[1] They were an ancient race. Few species that still exist can claim longer lineage.[3] Dragons...
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The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe. The Roman poet Virgil in his poem Culex lines 163–201, [1] describing a shepherd battling a big constricting snake, calls it "serpens" and also "draco", showing that in his time the two words probably could mean the same thing.