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Originally Posted by Mecheon
European ones are classic symbols of evil, and resemble snakes in general form.
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Humans only viewed them as evil because they ate their sheep and other livestock. But the dragons only ate those sheep because the humans had been killing the other wildlife the dragon would normally would feed on, such as wild boars. And the sheep were easy pickings, just standing there in a wide open field.
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... References which are largely incompatible with each other. Seriously, creatures of pure evil in European myths are supposed to be bearers of good luck and royalty in eastern kingdoms?
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You know how storytellers are. What once was a flying lizard became a multi-headed giant fire-breathing demon after being passed around.
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Seriously, look at all of the large predators in history. The only ones that actually flew were a few eagles in New Zealand, while everywhere else in the world land-based animals were dominant. There's a reason that pterosaurs were generally seen as scavengers and fishers
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Pterodactyls?