Who believes in Dragons?

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I wonder sometimes if they did exist. They show up in a lot of cultures that were not associated, and grew apart, from each other. The Vietnamese, Chines and Japanese have them in legend. They occur in European legend. They show up in African legend. Maybe they were talking about pterodactyls. That doesn't explain the fire-breathing aspect, though. Maybe man conjured that one up himself.

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Dragons are what dinosaurs were called.

Marco Polo reported that the Chinese Emperor had a Royal Dragon keeper and a chariot drawn by them, he also wrote the following:-

"Leaving the city of Yachi, and traveling ten days into a westerly direction, you reach the Province of Carajan [modern Yunnan on the edge of Burma] which is also the name of its chief city…Here are seen huge serpents, ten paces in length, and ten spans in the girt of the body. At the fore-part, near the head, they have two short legs, having three claws like those of a tiger, with eyes larger than a fourpenny loaf (pane da quattro denari) and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable, that neither man, nor any kind of animal, can approach them without terror. Others are met with of a smaller size, being eight, six, or five paces long; and the following method is used for taking them. In the day-time, by reason of the great heat, they lurk in caverns, from whence, at night, they issue to seek their food, and whatever beast they meet with and can lay hold of, whether tiger, wolf, or any other, they devour; after which they drag themselves towards some lake, spring of water, or river, in order to drink. By their motion in this way along the shore, and their vast weight, they make a deep impression, as if a heavy beam had been drawn along the sands.

CLICK HERE to see images of ancient carvings and pictures of well known "Dragons" such as the Stegosaurus

hmm... It'll be interesting if there's a connection with dragons and dinosaurs. Would that myth exist before or without the discovery of the dinosaurs, its a reasonably recent discovery I find...

Gwydion - Oh I do , I always loved fire breathing ones. Oh heck I so do want one as a pet. I've always fantasised riding one and always dream dragons, Soo many different coloured ones.

I assume that Marco Polo talked to the locals and wrote down a few second-hand anecdotes. Maybe some of the people he talked to bragged a little or embellished things a bit. Maybe he added some embellishments himself. Maybe someone pulled his leg and he didn't realize it.

I wonder, if a Chinese traveller had lived among medieval Europeans for a while, what stories would he have told upon his return to his home country? Probably tales of the winged humans that he only saw in paintings, of gargoyles that sit perched atop cathedrals, people who turn into wolves during the full moon, witches who consort with underworld demons, and fairy folk that lives deep in the forests.

I love dragons. I have a little dragon plushie named Weezie who is blue and purple with tinsel in his fur. I also love Toothless, Figment, Mushu and Elliott and I used to watch DragonTales all the time when I was younger. Stuffy from Doc McStuffins is cute, too.

I do not understand how someone could believe that mythical fire breathing dragons exist in the real world, Eragon, Game of Thrones, How to train your dragon, The Hobbit, that's all computer graphics it's not proof. The flying spaghetti monster is real though, I have seen it with my own eyes.

They did exist... but then this asteroid came along and wiped them out.