Dragons
Dragons are ferocious and powerful. Some dragons breathe fire or poison,
others have breath that freezes adversary. Some dragons guard treasures
or possess magical powers. Dragons come in many different colors. The most
common are black, red, green and white.They can be good or evil. Europeans
dragons are usually evil, and Asian dragons are usually good. In the U.S.,
the type of dragons that were believed in were: Serpent dragons and Serpent
whales, Kitchi-at'husis, giant leech, & piasa. A relative to the dragon
is the Chimera. Chimeras have the body of a lion, the tail of a Serpent,
a goats head protruding from the back. Another description of a chimera
is that it has the head, mane and legs of a lion, the body of a goat, and
the tail of a dragon. The last description of the Chimera is it having a
goat head, dragon head and lion head with goat body.In folk tales, the Chimera
was slain by Bellerophon who was riding on a pegusas in the process.
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