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  • THE DRAGONS IN JOURNEY TO THE WEST (REVISED 2025)

    THE DRAGONS IN JOURNEY TO THE WEST (REVISED 2025) The Dragons in Journey to the West is one of the Four Major Classical Novels of Chinese literature written in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty. Its authorship was attributed to Wu Cheng’en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to the “Western…

  • THE ISLAND OF THE NINE WHIRLPOOLS

    THE ISLAND OF THE NINE WHIRLPOOLS (The Book of Dragons -1901- by E. Nesbit) The dark arch that led to the witch’s cave was hung with a black-and-yellow fringe of live snakes. As the Queen went in, keeping carefully in the middle of the arch, all the snakes lifted their wicked, flat heads and stared…

  • HEROIC PRINCE STEZOR AND THE DRAGON

    HEROIC PRINCE STEZOR AND THE DRAGON (Story by BoSt) ( BoSt rendition of an old legend, a popular Serbian fairy tale) In the far-off land of Orownoz the enlightened and fair-minded King Zonen was at his wits end; his once peaceful kingdom was plagued by a terrible curse. Every now and then a sheep, ox…

  • THE CENTIPEDE AND THE DRAGON PRINCESS

    THE CENTIPEDE AND THE DRAGON PRINCESS (An Alternate Version of Rice-bag Toda (Tawara Toda) Once upon a time a warrior called Fujiwara no Hidesato was crossing the Seta Bridge at Lake Biwa. Suddenly a monstrous serpent appeared and lay across the roadway just ahead of him.  The hero was not least bit perturbed and, shrugging…