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In European myth, dragons are almost universally regarded as evil - rapacious monsters that lay waste to the countryside, have to be slain b...

A considerable number of mythological deities are said to throw thunderbolts - Zeus and Thor are merely the most familiar of these to Europe...

While witches, evil sorcerers, and the like, may create freezing cold storms, beings that attack by virtue of simply being very cold are not...

Many medieval descriptions of dragons make no mention of them breathing fire, and this does not seem to be part of the original myths of the...

Medieval descriptions of dragons imply that they look rather like snakes, but they were said not to be venomous and, since they weren't ...

It's hard to argue with the notion that the single most iconic monster in fantasy fiction is the dragon. Dragons exist in some of the ol...

Actual medieval descriptions of dragons were vague as to whether they had four legs, plus wings, or just two, and illustrations of the time ...