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Interestingly dragon stories do have some basis in reality, but it's snakes, not dinosaurs or any other extinct creature, and there still happened a lot of creative storytelling over the years, which means OPs point still stands.

Please stop discrediting your ancestors' ability to tell stories by trying to find material/physical origins to their stories. Krampus isn't a cryptid, dragon stories weren't inspired by dinosaur fossils, every region has its own mythology and fae are only a thing in Celtic, English, and English-colonized regions, your ancestors were perfectly capable of doing things without help from aliens, and our world is weird enough that tales of mysterious strangers, mass disappearances, memories not lining up, and so on, are better explained as a product of OUR world than hypothetical other worlds/timelines. A lot of weird tales were spun by storytellers. Give some respect to their hard work.

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THE NEVERENDING STORY dir. Wolfgang Petersen, 1984

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I think most of the dragon transformations that are meant as punishment don't involve majestic modern fantasy dragons.

being turned into a dragon as a punishment is so inherently funny. we’re sentencing you to become a beautiful magical creature that can live indefinitely and breathe fire and kill men with your bite. oh nooooooooo. anything but thattttttt. bad news, I’m a reptile. good news, I no longer have to pay my tithe to the church.

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@maniculum thanks a lot for the shout out in the new episode. I haven't listened to all of it because my commute to work is to short for that.

It's fun how the Gesta Romanorum version of the story doesn't mention the cause of death for the man, I think the folkloric versions are a bit more precise in this regard.

I just found your podcast and saw that you covered the Gesta Romanorum in a lot of episodes. Since they are pretty long, can you please tell me if the Episode about the man in the snake cave (Charles Swan translated the title as "Of Deliverance from Hell") is in one of them?

It isn't yet. I just checked, and it's one of the ones I have tagged to include in a future episode. If you like, I can make a note to do it the next time we revisit the Gesta Romanorum -- though that won't be for a while, as we have the next few months already planned out and Gesta Romanorum isn't on the schedule.

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>shara ishvalda's eyes don't actually track the camera, the model simply has concave eyes which creates an optical illusion that it's always looking at you

Bro

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A European grass snake (Natrix natrix) swims in a pond in Arne Nature Reserve, England

by Roger Wasley

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THE GARGOYLE….. 2!!!

Made a companion piece to my previous gargoyle

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Redraw of an older painting of mine. It’s a bit messy, but I’m already tired of looking at it. :D

Original description said: “The dragon tried his best to save the princess, but that prince was seriously evil.”

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Year of the dragon　2024

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A snake that launches itself at high velocities to kill its prey. The jaculus is a flying snake that is sometimes considered to be a dragon.

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A navy man about to leave the navy for his new dragon best friend.

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Ghuulum, desert dragon.

Dragon Commissions still open! DM for details 🧡🐉

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People often underestimate how much the idea of dragons having limbs is just a leftover of the medieval artistic tradition to give all snakes limbs.

Wouldn't it be funny if our word for a specific kind of bird would transform into a new "bird with arms" kind of mythical creature through memes like that?

Sorry if this sends twice, but: have any other snake and/or dragon fun facts to share?

Have a happy natrix (grass snake) from Cantimpre's Liber de natura rerum.

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some head shapes for these guys

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Herkules und die Hydra by Franz von Stuck (1915)

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Is he angy at the dragon or is it just his fancy scarf.

Taggeth Thyself.