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  • THE ORIGIN OF FAFNIR THE DRGON (REVISED 2025)

    THE ORIGIN OF FAFNIR THE DRAGON (REVISED 2025) The story of Fafnir is the story of how craving after material wealth destroys those who indulge in it. In this story the Dragon, and the Dragon’s treasure, came to symbolize the power of Greed. Now the moral is out of the way, just sit back and…

  • THE ORIGIN OF THE MIDGARD SERPENT (REVISED 2025)

    THE ORIGIN OF THE MIDGARD SERPENT (REVISED 2025) In the Norse and Teutonic legends, as recounted in the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturlson, the most powerful and feared Dragon-like creature was the Midgard Serpent, known as Jörmungandr. Jörmungandr was so huge he was able to circle the entire Earth (or Midgard as it was called…

  • KNUCKERS IN FLOLKLORE

    KNUCKERS IN FLOLKLORE The most famous Knucker lived, according to legend, at Lyminster. The Knucker apparently caused a lot of suffering (woe), consuming large amounts of local livestock and even villagers, and so it was decided to slay the monster dragon. A number of different legends recount how this was done. One version has the…

  • DRAGONS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY

    DRAGONS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY DRAGONS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY The very first mention of a “dragon” in Ancient Greece is derived from the classic Iliad where Agamemnon is described as having a blue dragon motif on his sword belt and a three-headed dragon emblem on his breast plate. Keep in mind however, that the Greek word…

  • THE COURAGEOUS KOI AT DRAGON’S GATE

    THE COURAGEOUS KOI AT THE DRAGON’S GATE  In China they tell the story of the Yellow Emperor, who became so angry at the wickedness of the humans that he decided to end their existence. Summoning the God of Rain, he commanded that the rain should never stop until the entire Earth was covered in water…