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  1. Yes! Yes! YES! I love Elizabeth and her affinity for dragons. That has always amazed me how she innately knows dragons and they know and respect her. Yep, what great research you found there.

  2. What a fantastic find! Even the date of the painting’s destruction has a connection to Pride and Prejudice, at least in my mind (I always think of the story as starting in 1811). I love it when history reminds us how complex humanity is. Though there are many “dragon terrorizes town, man kills dragon” stories, your find is a reminder that there are also other stories to be told. Thanks for your storytelling and research, Maria Grace!

  3. I have loved these stories. Interesting article here! Hard to imagine an actual painting as if dragons are real.

    “A painting of the creature hung in the village church until 1811 when the vicar ordered it destroyed as a ‘sign of the devil’.” Can’t imagine a man of God or any church hanging that.

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