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A water dragon youkai in Japanese mythology. Tatsu: Dragon of Japanese mythology, and the master of the water, like the Ryu. Orochi: the eight-headed serpent slain by Susanoo in Japanese mythology. Kuraokami: A Japanese dragon and a deity of rain and snow. Ryū: Similar to Chinese dragons, with three claws instead of four. They are usually ...
Pages in category "Dragons in fairy tales" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Andrómeda by Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante (1633–1670), depicting Princess Andromeda of Greek mythology chained to a rock as a sacrifice to the dragon-like sea monster Cetus. Princess and dragon is an archetypical premise common to many legends, fairy tales, and chivalric romances. [1]
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.
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.
Rumplestiltskin - A character from the Mother Goose Grimm fairy tales, in which he fits many of the attributes of the trickster and often tricks other characters for his own nefarious purposes. Sera - A brash and capricious Robin Hood-like rogue who is a party member in Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Spanish animator MetaBallStudios has created a size comparison video featuring dragons from fantasy worlds and it's downright enlightening. The post Dragon Size Comparison Shows How Big the ...
The Dragon of the North (Estonian: Põhja konn, literally Frog of the North) is an Estonian fairy tale, collected by Dr. Friedrich Kreutzwald in Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed jutud. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book ; he listed his source as "Der Norlands Drache" from Ehstnische Märchen , which was the German translation of ...