I recently found a passage about dragons that made me stop and think for a while. In the 19th century children’s novel The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley it is written:

“Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”

CHARLES KINGSLEY, The Water Babies

Pterodactyl skeletonPterodactyl (Dimorphodon macronyx) skeleton from Geological magazine (1864)

The existence of dragons

This really appealed to me and my sense of intrigue. Having been interested in dragons for so many years, in my time I have discovered that different cultures at different times with different languages and different customs from all over the world have legends, myths and folklore featuring dragons. Why is this so? I’m sure that there is a scientific or anthropological reason for such but I can’t help but wish that there were proof that dragons really existed!

The above words by Charles Kingsley might at least help make sense of some of my questions!