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(From a Shah-nama. Originated in Persia sometime around 1575.)
Long, long ago, in the time of the foolish King Kai Kaus of Persia there lived a hero named Rustam. At the time of this story we find Rustam and his trusty horse, Rakhsh on their way to the land of the Mazanderan River […]
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(From Voeux du Paon. A 14th century, French dragon story) Once upon a time there was a Count of Anjou who was successful in all of his ventures, traveled far and wide, and had a healthy life. But he didn’t have a Countess and this bummed him out. One fine day he came […]
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(From Caxton’s translation of the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. Developed around 1480 CE in Antioch.)Saint Margaret was the daughter of the Chief Priest of the Pagans in Antioch. Her nurse was a Christian and brought her up in the faith. This angered her father who subsequently sent her to live […]
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(From Enuma Elish, the Babylonian story of creation. Dated at around 1700 BCE, but aspects of the story could go back to about 2000 BCE.)
In this story it is said that before the time of the gods and the world there was nothing but a waste of chaotic waters ruled by Apsu and […]
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There are many ways to organize all of the Chinese dragons. In the oriental tradition of opposites, the dragon is correlated with the masculine yang power while the phoenix, the bird of rebirth, is associated with the feminine yin force.The Chinese dragon like the Indian Naga’s, are often associated with water and rain and lakes […]
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ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON There are several conflicting stories behind St. George and his awful fight with a dragon. One speaks of St. George as one who was endowed at birth with three marks on his body. One was that of a dragon which was inscribed on his chest. This was undoubtedly taken as […]
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Udyana, in modern Pakistan, was famous for its water dragons. This is a story of one of those dragons.
The Naga are thought to be semi-divine snakes with human faces and serpents tales. It is in the Patala, a watery region under the earth that they reside.
It was by […]
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Typhon was the largest monster ever born. Instead of legs his bottom portion was a mass of coiled snakes as were his hands. His outstretched arms would reach hundreds of leagues in either direction. “His vast wings darkened the sun, fire flashed from his eyes, and flaming rocks hurtled from his mouth.” (Graves, Robert The […]
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Wales is symbolized by a red dragon. In the Mabinogion the tale of Lludd and Llewelys speaks of the struggle between this red dragon and the white dragon. It was long ago in the days of the Saxon invasions that this story takes place and it is no wonder that the white […]
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It has been reputed that several dragons have lived on the coast of Ethiopia from time to time. These huge monsters were reported to be twenty cubits in length (over 30 ft. long!) and had two or sometimes four wings. These dragons were both feared and held in awe for their skill at killing elephants.It […]
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Once upon a time, there were no rivers and lakes on earth, but only the Eastern Sea, in which lived four dragons: the Long Dragon, the Yellow Dragon, the Black Dragon and the Pearl Dragon.
One day the four dragons flew from the sea into the sky. They soared and dived, playing at hide-and-seek in the […]
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In ancient times the country to the north of Greece was called Emathia. But when King Macedon ruled over it, bringing peace and prosperity, the people changed its name in honour of their greatest king-nor did any greater rule over it for many hundreds of years until Alexander the Great inherited the kingdom and set […]
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A young dragon was caught in a river flood and stranded on a dry ridge in the bed of a stream when the water sank, unable to fly away having been injured by a floating log. As he sat there wondering what to do, a peasant came down with his donkey to collect drift-wood left […]
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Once there were a man and a dragon who made friends, and lived together like brothers, trusting each other in everything.
The dragon had gathered together a huge treasure of silver and gold, and the time came when he had to go on a journey, and left the man to guard his treasure.
Now this dragon was […]
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Storytellers know that China has hundreds of dragons. Every pool and river has its own dragon, and there are quite a few more in the Chinese seas. The dragons are not fierce, and they don’t eat people, either-which is just as well. But why are there so many dragons in China?
Long ago, in China, there […]
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Some fifteen hundred years ago a king called Beowulf ruled over the Geats who lived in the south of Sweden. He was a mighty warrior who, as a young man, had done deeds of which the minstrels and poets would tell through after ages. He had come to Denmark where King Hrothgar was sorely troubled […]
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In the days when Arcadia was the wildest and leneliest part of Greece there lived a boy called Thoas whose home was in a village of only two or three houses where the shepherds dwelt who fed their flocks on the lower slopes of the mountains.Thoas loved to wander alone among the rocks and caves […]
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The ancient Greeks and Romans had no doubt at all about the actual existence of dragons, and were already telling stories about them, as we have seen. They even knew about their strange love of collecting gold and guarding it in caves - without any special reason except, as Phaedrus made the dragon say in […]
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