My Mystical Dragon

I've always loved dragons ~ there's just something about them... Powerful, amazing, fantastic creatures that seem to have only lived in the imaginative minds of people long gone... A legendary beast in the folklore of many European and Asian cultures, described as large, lizardlike creatures that breathe fire and have a long, scaly tail. In Europe, dragons are traditionally portrayed as ferocious beasts that represent the evils fought by man. In Asia, the animals are generally considered friendly creatures that ensure good luck, wealth and ultimate protection. In the world of fantastic animals, the dragon is unique. No other creature has appeared in such a rich variety of forms. Indeed, as recently as the seventeenth century, scholars wrote of dragons as though they were scientific facts ~ their anatomy and natural history being recorded in painstaking detail.

Dragons have some fascinating characteristics in addition to those portrayed through fairytales and legends ~ He is an admirable, intelligent and educated creature ~ Personifications of malevolence, beneficence, death, life, devastation, fertility, good, evil ~ All these varied, contradictory concepts are embodied and embedded within that single magical word ~ Dragon ...