European dragon
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european-dragon-210-1202094
title:
European dragon
text:
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, 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. In and after the early Middle Ages, the European dragon is typically depicted as a large, fire-breathing, scaly, horned, lizard-like creature; the creature also has
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mythical creature in European folklore
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_dragon
date created:
2002-09-23T10:54:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T16:47:45Z
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