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• St Martha and the Tarasque
  ...r found the skin of the dragoness and considered her dead. But every seven years the Tarasque hat to slough, and the farmer had only found her cast-off skin Seven more years went by. The Tarasque had destroyed all bridges and devoured everyone who w
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• Highclere
  It was banished into the sea for 1000 years by the parish priest.
  491 bytes (61 words) - 15:55, 25 December 2012
• O Goncho
  Every fifty years the dragon changes into a golden bird. The cry of the bird is an omen of fa
  408 bytes (61 words) - 16:49, 28 November 2012
• Main Page
  ...mammoths. It has slithered across Chinese rock art in Shanxi province 8000 years before Christ. ...ting, magical creatures who have captivated our attention for thousands of years. The many different kinds of dragons and the ability for us to use our imag
  4 KB (601 words) - 22:50, 9 January 2014
• Laidley Worm
  In this form she devastated the countryside around Bamburgh for many years.
  822 bytes (138 words) - 02:57, 25 December 2012
• Wyvern
  ...depicted in heraldry on shields, coats of arms and banners for hundreds of years, and are a symbol of strength and endurance. ...urs, a large flying reptile thought to have gone extinct around 65 million years ago. More probable is that the discovery of fossilized skeletons of long ex
  3 KB (495 words) - 02:33, 29 November 2012
• Yinglong
  ...years changes into a kioh-lung (蛟龍, "horned dragon") and after a thousand years into a ying-lung (應龍)".
  5 KB (731 words) - 02:52, 29 November 2012
• Apep
  ...ep was seen as a giant snake/serpent, or occasionally as a dragon in later years, leading to such titles as Serpent from the Nile and Evil Lizard.
  1 KB (212 words) - 23:05, 22 December 2012
• The Bride of the Lindorm King
  ...ay in her bedchamber about to give birth to twins - the fulfilment of many years of empty longing for the children she had seemed destined never to conceive Years passed, and the boy became a youthful prince in search of a bride, but what
  6 KB (1,036 words) - 20:10, 21 December 2012
• Culebre
  Culebres are said to be immortal but after 600 years, they must flee the Asturias and fly to the Mar Cuajada, a paradise located
  1 KB (206 words) - 15:52, 28 November 2012
• St Albans Abbey
  The abbey has been the scene for many ghostly sightings over the years, and ghostly choral accompaniment has also been heard on several occasions. ...bloody battles fought in its streets during the Wars of the Roses. In the years after the two battles one house was said to ring with the clash of steel on
  3 KB (555 words) - 23:45, 26 December 2012
• Jilocasin
  ...ssed her gratitude and told him her story. She had been widowed within two years of marriage, and her family had forced her to marry her cousin, an unscrupp ...and sang the verses which the dragon-poet composed. They spent three happy years in this way. To complete her happiness, the woman became pregnant. They wer
  4 KB (640 words) - 20:14, 21 December 2012
• Pickled dragon
  ...n a crate in his garage by Hart's father and had remained there for twenty years before being "rediscovered".
  1 KB (239 words) - 17:59, 28 November 2012
• Apalala
  ...ere Apalala would stop his destruction in return for one crop every twelve years. Rather than relying on the people to provide the offering, he would take i
  1 KB (254 words) - 23:05, 22 December 2012
• The Drac of Beaucaire
  Seven years passed. The young of the dragon became large and strong, and the day came w ...rms. Her husband, who had believed her drowned and had cried her for seven years, overpowered her with questions, but she was unable to answer, having no me
  8 KB (1,411 words) - 04:04, 19 November 2012
• Shen
  ...years; a yan 燕 "swallow" transforms into a haige 海蛤 (with "sea") after 100 years; and a fulei 復絫, or fuyi 服翼 "bat", transforms into a kuige 魁蛤 (
  5 KB (674 words) - 18:44, 28 November 2012
• Drac
  ...o rear their unlucky offspring; and sometimes, after they have spent seven years there, they return to our hemisphere. ...ninjured, and was hardly recognised by her husband and friends after seven years’ absence.
  5 KB (850 words) - 04:00, 19 November 2012
• Lambton Worm
  The years passed and John Lambton went off to the crusades, with every passing year t ...ly ventured up the lane to the hall for its daily offering of milk. As the years passed the trail became marked by a path of dark slime and the villagers re
  9 KB (1,706 words) - 18:39, 25 December 2012
• Brno
  ...s of Sir Albrecht Trut when they were establishing the town in 1006. A few years later Prince Oldrich summoned an assembly to Brno to appoint his son as Mar
  3 KB (477 words) - 15:52, 28 November 2012
• Python
  ...this victory, Apollo started the Pythian games, which were held every four years. The old name of Delphi, Pytho, refers to the serpent.
  3 KB (472 words) - 18:09, 28 November 2012

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