With some, like the story of St George and the Dragon, we’ve written more in-depth guides to the legend.
So here, we’re doing to do our best to curate and collate all of the dragon legends we can find.
Now, in the early part of the 21st century, we’re in the digital age and we have an unprecedented opportunity to record and preserve these dragon legends online forever. And from the 1980s onwards, developers, artists and storytellers combined to turn many dragon legends into dragon games. The ancient Japanese art turned into dragon anime. Moving through history into the era of mass communication, people started to write books about dragons. If we go back a few thousand years we see dragons depicted in ancient Japanese art, we see dragons appear in The Bible and we hear of the Great Race of the dragon and the Chinese Zodiac. The way that dragon legends are told changes with each passing era. For centuries, people have told dragon legends, myths and folk stories as morality tales, entertaining yarns, or warnings from history.Īnd these legends pass from generation to generation, ensuring that they survive wars, economic disaster, political revolutions and huge cultural shifts.
