dragons

Everybody knows about dragons, dragons are a legendary creatures like snake or reptilian traits. The two most familiar dragons are Chinese dragon and European dragon.

Dragons are commonly shown as a huge lizard or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs and able to blow fire from their mouths. The European dragon has bat-type wings growing from its back. A dragon-like creature with no front legs is known as a wyvern.

Although dragons occur in many legends around the world, different cultures have varying stories about monsters that have been grouped together under the dragon label. Some dragons are said to breathe fire or to be poisonous. They are commonly portrayed as serpentine or reptilian, hatching from eggs and possessing typically scaly or feathered bodies. European dragons are more often winged, while Chinese dragons resemble large snakes. Dragons can have a variable number of legs: none, two, four, or more.

In Western folklore, dragons are usually portrayed as evil, with the exceptions mainly appearing in modern fiction. In the modern period the dragon is typically depicted as a huge fire-breathing, scaly and horned dinosaur-like creature, with leathery wings, with four legs and a long muscular tail. It is sometimes shown with feathered wings, crests, fiery manes, ivory spikes running down its spine and various exotic coloration.

Chinese dragons are legendary creature in Chinese mythology and folklore. In contrast to European dragons that are considered evil, Chinese dragons traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water, rainfall, and floods.

Lately dragons are often used as characters in a movie and TV show. Such as:

1. Eragon, this movie is about a dragon rider and the dragon called Saphira. A Blue European dragon.

2. Harry Potter, in the fourth Harry Potter sseries, Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire, Harry must fight with a dragon, known as Hungarian Horntail. As its name this dragon is an European dragon with horn on its tail.

3. Avatar. In this film, Jake become a Toruk Makto because he could ride a dragon, known as the last shadow, Toruk to make Pandora believe to him that he's on Pandora side.


4. And the latest is "How to Train Your Dragon", Early in this movie, dragons are pests in Viking and after Hiccup met the Night Fury--Stufles, the first tame dragon because of good treatment from Hiccup, the Dragons become pets.



Those movies above are use an European dragon, There are also Chinese dragons in movies or TV shows, such as: Dragon Ball and The Last AirBender. In Dragon Ball, the dragon will appear if the seven ball were collect and it will grant your want/s. And in Aang: the Last AirBender, Aang and Zuko find the dragon to learn the Pure FireBending from the Dragons