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Colonel Panik3/23/2009 9:48:54 am PDT

While I certainly don’t believe as the YECer’s do, that early man shared the earth with dinosaurs, I do wonder about the origin of dragon stories. They certainly seem to be widespread…there are Anglo-Celtic dragon stories, like St. George, Slavic dragon stories like Smok Wewelski, the dragon of Krakow that I posted about upthread, Norse dragon stories, Asian dragon stories…I wonder if anyone as traced their origins and what the likely critter was that inspired them. Crocodiles? Big snakes? Monitor lizards?

I also find it somewhat amusing that the Slavic word for dragon, Smok or Smocza, is similar to the English word smoke. Where there’s Smok, there’s fire! LOL.