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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.
This book, like the other books in the Ologies series, is assigned a fictional "author" who then acts as the narrator of the book. Dr. Ernest Drake is the fictional author and owner of the original Complete Book of Dragons. Real-life author Dugald Steer is the creator of the Drake character and the writer of this and several other books in the ...
An Instinct for Dragons is a book by University of Central Florida anthropologist David E. Jones, in which he seeks to explain the universality of dragon images in the folklore of human societies. In the introduction, Jones conducts a survey of dragon myths from cultures around the world and argues that certain aspects of dragons or dragon-like ...
The agency must also root out fake art that’s illegally marked as made by an Indian artist. That’s where Lamar said the agency’s educational programs come into play.
Dragonology is a series of books for children and young adults about dragons, written in a non-fictional style. [1] The series contains information on dragons, including about how to befriend and protect them as well as an alphabet of the dragon language, ancient runes, and replica samples of dragon scales.
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.
The work is divided into two books. [7] The first book contains instructions for summoning a demon and for the construction of tools with which to force the demon to do one's bidding. The second book is divided further into two parts: the Sanctum Regnum ("Holy Kingdom") and Secrets, de L'Art Magique du Grand Grimoire ("Secrets, of the magic art ...
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