Does anyone believe they might of existed? its strange because there are legends of them everywhere, including places that never came into contact. And as fanciful as it sounds don't you think that it might be possible?


although, there is the wizard's first rule: People will believe anything they want to believe, or fear to believe. -Zedd

templelane

I think the belief in dragons came from the finding of dinosaur bones

Varoth

But legends of dragons go farther back than the first recorded discovery of dino bones.

firmbeliever

I think legends are mostly elaborated and dramatised tales to fascinate(sometimes scare) the people of the time....

Even if there were lizard and flying animals, it might not have been the same as the dragons described in most books..

Just my 2 cents.

VSPrasad

The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a gigantic and powerful serpent or other reptile with magical or spiritual qualities. One should do an in-depth study before taking any decision.

As with every mythological creature, dragons are perceived in different ways by different cultures. They are commonly portrayed as serpentine or reptilian, hatching from eggs and possessing extremely large, typically feathery or scaly, bodies; they are sometimes portrayed as having large eyes, a feature that is the origin for the word for dragon in many cultures, and are often (but not always) portrayed with, a row of dorsal spines, bat-like wings and a fiery breath. Some dragons do not have wings at all, but look more like long snakes. Dragons can have a variable number of legs: none, two, four, or more when it comes to early European literature. Modern depictions of dragons are very large in size, but some early European depictions of dragons were only the size of bears, or, in some cases, even smaller, around the size of a butterfly.

Most experts on mythology and folklore argue that legends of dragons are based upon ordinary snakes and similar creatures coupled with common psychological fears amongst disparate groups of humans.

Some believe that the dragon may have had a real-life counterpart from which the various legends arose — typically dinosaurs or other archosaurs are mentioned as a possibility — but there is no physical evidence to support this claim, only alleged sightings collected by cryptozoologists. In a common variation of this hypothesis, giant lizards such as Megalania are substituted for the living dinosaurs. Some believe dragons are mental manifestations representing an assembly of inherent human fears of reptiles, teeth, claws, size and fire in combination.

Dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is known that people go through weird dreams. They may interpret some minor
facts with dream beings.

Varoth

Yeah that sounds kinda more reasonable, but hey maybe i'm just wishing they existed.

CaptainRich

What is your resource for this claim?

Varoth

BBC - h2g2 - Dinosaurs of The Isle of Wight - Dinosaur Hunters. And that and i asked my cousin who is a paleontologist major.

CaptainRich

That's is a very vast BBC article, much like asking someone to read Wikipedia or Britannica Online. Could you please be more specific?

However, I read the opening page and saw nothing that referenced the existance of dragon legends to before the first recorded discovery of dinosaur bones. But even legend doesn't prove that they have ever actually existed.

Do you have anything other than legend to show of dragon's existance or are you only claiming the legend of dragons came before the discovery of dinosaur bones?

Varoth

okay, dragon legends have been passed down far before the first RECORDED discovery of dino bones i.e. 1829. Now if some one can find a RECORDED discovery of dino bones before the at least 10th century, then i might agree with templelane. now yes i was saying the LEGEND of dragons goes back farther. and what i was getting at is there might be something ELSE they might have based the legend on. like a flying lizard. that breathes fire. or something. I don't know, its just that is where my thought process went.