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• Oilliphéist
  ==Legend==
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• Yellow Dragon of the Center
  ...ted the legendary Emperor Fu Xi with the elements of writing. According to legend, when it appeared before Fu Xi, it filled a hole in the sky made by the mon ...hey sometimes refer to themselves as "the descendants of the dragon". This legend also contributed towards the use of the Chinese dragon as a symbol of imper
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• Minokawa
  ==Legend==
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• Haietlik
  According to the legend, the Lightning Snakes were sent off by the Thunderbirds to kill orcas for f
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• Ryūjin
  ...annual festival, called Gion Matsuri, at the Yasaka Shrine celebrates this legend. Another legend involving Ryūjin is the story about how the jellyfish lost its bones. Acco
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• Tarasca
  ...ginated with the [[Tarasque]] in France. However, the Tarasca has no known legend connected with it and feeds especially on children.
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• Little Cornard
  A 15th Century legend has it that on the 26th September 1449 a black Suffolk Dragon from Kedingto
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• Cadbury Castle
  In legend Cadbury Castle is the site of Camelot, and one of the hills under which Art ...e we may see an older tradition of the phantom wild hunt mingling with the legend of Arthur, and indeed Arthur is said to lead the wild hunt from the castle
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• Dragon of St. Leonards Forest
  ...at St. Leonard, a French saint and Martyr, ever visited Sussex, though the legend may have been attributed to him through a hermitage within the forest. Neve ...just to the South-West of the forest. While this may be a reference to the legend of the Dragons in St. Leonards forest, it may also be a reference to the pe
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• Dalry Dragon
  The worm here was white in colour and this legend may have inspired Bram Stoker’s novel ‘Lair of the White Worm’. It wo
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• Longwitton
  According to the Legend of Sir Guy in Thomas Percy's Reliques, the Earl of Warwick killed a dragon
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• Solway Firth Worm
  According to legend a sea dwelling worm devoured fish stocks that the local people depended on.
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• Lyminster
  In a parallel to the legend of St George, the dragon which dwelt in Knuckler Hole near the churchyard o
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• Wievliscombe
  ...ross which date to the 14th century, but interestingly it also has a devil legend associated with it.
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• Padstow Hobby Horse
  According to legend, Saint Petroc tamed a dragon at Padstow by placing a girdle about its neck.
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• Kuzuryu
  ...iest Mangan-Shonin was the chief of the Shrine, there lived, according to legend, a poisonous and fierce dragon in the lake and he often afflicted people li ...r) and three-go (1 go is 0.18 liter) to serve the nine heads. To honor the legend and dedicate to the nine-headed dragon, the Shrine constructed a sub-shrine
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• Bedd-yr-Afanc
  Just two rows of parallel stones survive. According to legend the Afanc used to dwell in a pool by Brynberian Bridge, and was captured an
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• Herensuge
  ...ding to the legend of Orduña, there was an angel who cut off its head. The legend of Teodosio de Goñi is more explicit, explaining with detail how San Migue Yet there is a Christian legend in which certain Navarrese knight, Teodosio de Goñi, while making penance
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• Sugaar
  ...the province may look as unlikely indication of the partial veracity this legend.
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• Linton Worm
  The '''Linton Worm '''is a mythical beast referred to in a Scottish borders legend dating back to the 12th century. The legend states that his heroism was memorialized with a carved stone at Linton Kirk
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• Helston Flurry Dance
  There is also a fire breathing dragon legend associated with Helston.
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• La Guita Xica
  ”Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth” (Paperback) Carol Rose 2001
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• Gargouille
  ...rts mercilessly saturating the land until the entire region is flooded. In legend, Saint Romain, the archbishop of Rouen, lured the monster to shore using a
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• Ljubljana dragon
  ...re they put it back together again and went on their way. According to the legend, on their arrival between what is now Vrhnika and Ljubljana, the Argonauts
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• Llyn Glaslyn (Lake of the Blue Spring)
  ...n]]), and being the highest and remotest of the larger lakes it abounds in legend. The most famous legend connected to the lake is the undoubtedly the Afangc or Afanc (Welsh for Bea
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• St Albans Abbey
  ...his Christian beliefs on the hill where the Abbey now stands. According to legend a stream stopped flowing and began to flow again when his head rolled to th '''Dragon Legend'''
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• White Dragon
  ==Geoffrey of Monmouth's legend== ...ales) greeting each other in peace. It references the Geoffrey of Monmouth legend.
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• Dragon Blood
  *In yet another legend it is used as a varnish, its color causing beautiful discoloration on wood.
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• Drac
  ==Legend==
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• The Slingsby Serpent
  ...is little wonder that the family and the stone memorial became part of the legend.
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• Zilant
  ...fter Zilant the White Snake. After the 16th century Russians acquired this legend from Tatars. Hollander Carlus Allard noted that The Cæsar of Tatars once h *There is also a legend about Zilant's return to Zilantaw. They say that Zilant re-established hims
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• Knucker Of Lyminster
  Lyminster has a dragon legend of which three different versions exist. The dragon was known as the Knucke
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• Shervage Wood
  In legend and folklore the wood was the home of a dragon known as The Gurt Vurm of Sh
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• Sockburn
  According to legend, around the time of the Norman Conquest, a huge man-eating dragon with pois ...was granted the manor of Sockburn in the 12th Century, which according to legend was due to the heroism of Sir John.
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• Chuvash Dragon
  *According to one legend, when the Bulgars came to found the town of Bilär, they discovered a big s
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• Snallygaster
  It has been suggested the legend was resurrected in the 19th century to frighten freed slaves.
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• Mordiford Wyvern
  The legend had such a hold over the locals that in 1875 the rector found two of his pa
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• Knucker
  The most famous Knucker lived, according to legend, at Lyminster. Knucker apparently caused a lot of trouble, consuming local ...offered his daughter's hand in marriage to whoever rid them of the beast. Legend says that after marrying the princess the knight settled in Lyminster and h
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• Amphiptere
  Although originally a North African legend, the myth of the amphitheres were carried along with the slave trade to the
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• La Hougue Bie
  '''Dragon Legend'''
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• Unicorn
  The [[legend]] of the hunter and virgin bait became an allegory of the Incarnation of th ...nses, the gateways to temptation, and finally Love ("A mon seul desir" the legend reads), with unicorns in each hanging.
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• Nine Maidens Well
  ...agon slayer is usually referred to as being called Martin and according to legend Strathmartin (or perhaps Strike Martin, as the crowd is thought to have che
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• Zeus
  According to legend, Metis, the goddess of prudence, was the first love of Zeus. At first she t ...the reason being that Delos was, as legend states, a floating island. One legend says that Aphrodite was the daughter of Zeus and Dione
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• Dragon of Loschy Hill
  The following account of the legend of the Dragon of Loschy Hill was detailed in the 1888 book ‘Yorkshire Leg
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• Zhuyin
  ..."dragon" name Zhulong instead of "darkeness" name Zhuyin. Guo Pu quotes a legend from a no longer extant ''Shijing'' commentary (tr. Major 1993:204), "The s
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• Japanese dragon
  ...沢寺 "Dragon Swamp Temple", Ryōan-ji 竜安寺 "Dragon Peace Temple". According to legend (de Visser 1913:180), when the Hōkō-ji 法興寺 or Asuka-dera 飛鳥寺 ...nd turn within the temple grounds and outside in the streets. According to legend, the Sensō Temple was founded in 628 after two fishermen found a gold stat
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• Lambton Worm
  ...n in the North of England. The spiral patterns or furrows suggested by the legend as being formed by the worm coiling itself thrice around the hill, could in The Lambton Worm - Traditional Folksong Based on the Legend
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• Shen
  ...l texts (e.g., Lüshi Chunqiu , Yi Zhoushu, Huainanzi) repeat this seasonal legend about pheasants that transform in dashui 大水 "great (bodies of) water; f
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• Yinglong
  ...Huang di, the yellow emperor, who was later immortalized as a dragon. One legend states that Yinglong helped a man named Yu stop the Yellow River from flood
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• Peluda
  ...ovember 2001]. Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth (in English). W. W. Norton & Company, 217, 289. ISBN 0-393-32211-
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