Little Known about Dragons

The word dragon comes from the ancient Greek word drakōn, which is derived from the Greek verb derkomai, which means “to see” or “to look at”, the thought being that a dragon could see its prey far away. Initially, it was generally used to describe large serpentine creatures, symbolizing evil, chaos, and destruction.

The female of the species is called a drakaina.

A little dragon, or sometimes a baby dragon, is called a dragonet. However, smaller dragons were often known to be more ferocious and savage than their larger kin. So much for size isn’t important.

Dragons in the Western cultures were commonly seen as evil with four legs, large wings, and are fire-breathing. Whereas, in Eastern cultures dragons were portrayed as giant, wingless serpents, sometimes with multiple heads. wise and benevolent. And not only in the West and East, but regions of Africa have fork lore about large, serpentine creatures that were supernatural or spiritual, neither evil nor benevolent.

More places are named after dragons in China than anywhere else in the world.

Many tales considered dragon blood to be magical. Maybe this is what helped them to fly.

The first dragons in literature had some aspects of a monkey. They weren’t known for flying, instead they would drop out of trees, or other heights, normally landing on a person’s head.

In the Harry Potter series, it was illegal to sell dragon eggs. However, there were still dragon dealers, viewed in the same category as drug dealers.

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