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Sindhi folklore (Sindhi: لوڪ ادب) is composed of folk traditions which have developed in Sindh over many centuries.Sindh thus possesses a wealth of folklore, including such well-known components as the traditional Watayo Faqir tales, the legend of Moriro, the epic tale of Dodo Chanesar and material relating to the hero Marui, imbuing it with its own distinctive local colour or flavour in ...
Qiu is a dragon name in four contexts. The first uses yuqiu 玉虬 "jade hornless-dragon"; "I yoked a team of jade dragons to a phoenix-figured car, And waited for the wind to come, to soar up on my journey." [5] The second uses qiulong 虬龍 "hornless dragon"; "Where are the hornless dragons which carry bears on their backs for sport?"
Name Origin Notes Acnologia Fairy Tail: Acnologia, also known as The Black Dragon, and fearsomely reputed as The Black Dragon in the Book of Apocalypse and the Herald of New Ages, is a cataclysmically powerful Dragon Slayer that can take the form of a Dragon, that assaulted the Fairy Tail core Mages on Tenrou Island in the Year X784.
An early appearance of the Old English word dracan (oblique singular of draca) in Beowulf [1]. The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which, in turn, comes from Latin draco (genitive draconis), meaning "huge serpent, dragon", from Ancient Greek δράκων, drákōn (genitive δράκοντος, drákontos) "serpent".
Dragon's Tail (peninsula), a phantom feature appearing east of the Golden Chersonese in Ptolemaic and Islamic maps for centuries; Yongmunso, Korea, a site supposedly dug by a dragon's tail; Mokoliʻi, Hawaiʻi, USA, supposedly the remains of a dragon or lizard's tail; Kontuey Neak (Khmer for "Dragon Tail"), a Cambodian rain forest
Dragon Tales is an animated educational fantasy children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker, developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser, and produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop), Columbia TriStar Television (now known as Sony Pictures Television) and Adelaide Productions.
The name also migrated to Eastern Europe, [9] assumed the form "ažhdaja" and the meaning "dragon", "dragoness" [10] or "water snake" [11] in Balkanic and Slavic languages. [ 12 ] Despite the negative aspect of Aži Dahāka in mythology, dragons have been used on some banners of war throughout the history of Iranian peoples .
Ruth Manning-Sanders, A Book of Dragons (1965): 14 fairy tales about dragons. Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern series (1967): The (genetically engineered) Dragons of Pern. Dragons in Pern (genetically modified fire-lizards, which were Pernese natives) are ridden by "dragonriders" to protect the planet from a deadly threat, the Thread.