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...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

It was banished into the sea for 1000 years by the parish priest.

Every fifty years the dragon changes into a golden bird. The cry of the bird is an omen of fa

...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

In this form she devastated the countryside around Bamburgh for many years.

...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

...years changes into a kioh-lung (蛟龍, "horned dragon") and after a thousand years into a ying-lung (應龍)".

...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.

...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

Culebres are said to be immortal but after 600 years, they must flee the Asturias and fly to the Mar Cuajada, a paradise located

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

...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

...n a crate in his garage by Hart's father and had remained there for twenty years before being "rediscovered".

...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

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

...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 (

...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.

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

...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

...this victory, Apollo started the Pythian games, which were held every four years. The old name of Delphi, Pytho, refers to the serpent.

...ed out of the earth as if by geyser action. It was greatly sought in later years by the chiefs who worshipped this goddess. They made the place tabu, and us ...e pali (precipice) at the end of Nuuanu Valley, above Honolulu. After many years it was supposed that they both assumed the permanent forms of large stones

...to this cave is guarded by a giant Iron Gate, which opens once every seven years on Midsummer's day to let Arthur and his warriors ride the night.

...of 2009, “was regarded as an isolated incident”, and had been made “a few years ago”. A young student of agricultural sciences spotted the animal, but at ...fish first crawled onto land in the late Devonian era (408 to 360 million years ago) to give rise to the amphibians.

Dahag is said to have ruled for a thousand years, starting from 100 years after Jam lost his royal glory (see Jamshid). He is described as a sorcerer ...akes on his shoulders who feasted on human brains. As foretold in a vision years earlier, the tyrant king Zahak was eventually overthrown by the hero Faridu

...rs old, intended to hide in an old cellar, which had been abandoned for 30 years. When they reached the lowest step they suddenly fell dead on the floor. Th

...se dragon. According to Idel-Ural beliefs, any snake that survives for 100 years turns into Ajdaha dragon. For Kazan Russians, Zilant had negative connotati

...blical flood by seeking refuge in a cave near the Huisne River. After many years, it returned to rampage across the countryside, wilting crops with its brea

...e those of mythological creatures changed, sometimes drastically, over the years. He also noted that the sirrush is shown on the Ishtar Gate alongside real

...ound 1260. Though the sword is very, very old, the Conyers Falchion is 200 years too young to have been used by Sir John Conyers.

...eys and eight hills, and its belly was always flecked with blood. In seven years this beast had devoured seven maidens, the daughters of a king, and in the

They do say, that a dunnamany years ago there was a gert dragon lived in that big pond there, Knucker his name

...nto a [[western dragon|dragon]] and guards the treasure in a cave for many years before being ultimately killed by Wotan's mortal grandson [[Sigurd|Siegfrie

...Games were held in his honour. The Nemean Games, which were held every two years, were to honour Zeus. There were numerous festivals throughout Greece: in A

...only has the Fury quenched my sight, so that I drag myself through my last years in misery, but over and above all this I am the victim of another curse, wh

...them with its numerous heads. It totally terrorized the vicinity for many years.