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  • 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…

  • LAST OF THE DRAGONS

    LAST OF THE DRAGONS (Public Domain Story) Of course you know that dragons were once as common as motor-omnibuses are now, and almost as dangerous. But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess…

  • 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…

  • THE DRAGON FROM THE NORTH

    THE DRAGON FROM THE NORTH (A story by BoSt) Once upon a time a young dragon seeking adventure, strayed far from the mythical lands of the north where his kind lived; a place of high altitude, a windswept, barren (sterile) region, where the surface was covered most of the year with snow and ice. Flying…

  • 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…

  • THE DRAGON KING’S DAUGHTER

    DRAGON KING’S DAUGHTER RETOLD BY BoSt Once upon a time there was a hard-working student named Liu Yi, who lived in the central region of China near the great lakes. He was on his way home from the State Examinations, when his horse bolted and took the wrong turn, galloping quite a distance before he could…

  • THE ETERNAL LOVE OF THE BLUE MOON DRAGON

    THE ETERNAL LOVE OF THE BLUE MOON DRAGON (An Original Dragon Love Story by BoSt) Once upon a time on an enchanted island far, far away there was a mighty Blue Dragon, the last of his kind, who inhabited a majestic mountain cave.  Long before he was born a meteorite crashed into this Planet and…