Adrienne Mayor, a historian of ancient science and a classical folklorist suggests that dragon images are based on folk knowledge or exaggerations of living reptiles alive today. She also argues that dragons may have been inspired by ancient discoveries of fossils belonging to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

Or the twelfth century. Faillon inconsistently states that this representation "paroît sous une forme nouvelle, au douzième siècle, sur les sceaux (appeared in the 12th century in seals)" in the text proper, but "Le sceau de Trasocon, en usage aux douzième et treizième siècles (12th or 13th)" in note (2), then figure in the interleaving plate is labeled "Sur les sceaux de la Ville au XI et XII siècles (on the seals of the city in the 11th and 12th centuries)".

According to ancient Chinese mythology, some dragons live in the sea while others live in the sky. The Importance of Dragons in Chinese Culture Dancers dress as traditional Chinese dragons at an annual temple festival. (Image credit: Getty/ Forrest Anderson) Different types of dragons Mycoff, David, ed. (1989). The Life of Saint Mary Magdalene and of Her Sister Saint Martha: A Medieval Biography. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. ISBN 9780879076085. India also has its own dragon legends. The Rigveda, an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns describes how Indra, the Vedic god of storms would battle a giant serpent called Vrtra. Sometimes, Chinese dragons seem to be everywhere. We see these symbols in sports, on clothing, in books, and in movies. Some people even have dragon tattoos.

Canéto (1853–1860), p.11: «Les naseaux de la Tarasque, dit Raban-Maur, lançait naguère, en épaisses vapeurs, un vrai souffle de pestilence..».

Archived from the original on 2007-12-18 . Retrieved 2007-08-13. (An extract from the book Змеят в българския фолклор (The Dragon in Bulgarian Folklore), in Bulgarian) Celestial Dragon – This dragon resides in the sky, where it protects the celestial gods from falling to earth.

A loa in Dahomey mythology who is married to Damballa. Ayida-Weddo is also mentioned in Haitian Vodou. a b c Bane, Theresa (2014). Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures. McFarland. p.335. ISBN 978-0786488940. Niles, Douglas (2013). "6 Dragons of European Cultural Myth". Mythologie chrétienne. Margaret Weis. Paris: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781440562167. (catalog) Aži Zairita, from Zoroastrian mythology ( Avesta), the 'yellow dragon,' that is killed by the hero Kərəsāspa (In Middle Persian Kirsāsp). [17] Dumont (1951), p.148: "entre 1250 et 1300 selon M . Duprat (between 1250 and 1300 according to Mr. E. H. Duprat)"Dragons have appeared in numerous fantasy stories from The Hobbit to Game of Thrones, but just where do these mythical monsters come from? Underworld Dragon – This dragon controls rivers, streams, and seas. Some believe it’s the feminine version of the spiritual dragon and for this reason, the two can copulate. Grant, C. H. (translator), note 8 to the Ninth Canto, in: Mistral, Frédéric (1867). An English version ... of F. Mistral's Mirèio, from the original Provençal, etc. Avignon: J. Roumanille. p.208.

Shenlong, "god dragon" or "divine dragon", s a spiritual dragon from Chinese mythology who is the master of storms and also a bringer of rain. He is of equal significance to other creatures such as Tianlong, the celestial dragon.

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Derived from the Indian nāga, belief in the Indo-Malay dragon spread throughout Maritime Southeast Asia with Hinduism. The word naga is still the common Malay/Indonesian term for dragon. [21] Like its Indian counterpart, the naga is considered divine in nature, benevolent, and often associated with sacred mountains, forests, or certain parts of the sea. [ citation needed]. In Indonesia, particularly Javanese and Balinese mythology, a naga is depicted as a crowned, giant, magical serpent, and sometimes winged. Scholars dispute where the idea of a dragon originates from and a wide variety of hypotheses have been proposed. Because the earliest attested dragons all resemble snakes or have snakelike attributes, it has been suggested that dragons are the creation of our innate fear of snakes. Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters, & Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth" (Norton, 2001) Lagarfljótsormurinn, a lake monster or dragon living in the Lagarfljót, near Egilsstaðir, in Iceland.