(By Arrangement with Bavaria handkerchiefs dipped in "dragon's-blood" used to be suspended over the flax fields to ensure a plentiful crop, show that the dragon may originally have been identified vith one of the demons of fertility France Has Dragons Throughout antiquity, as well' as during the Middle Ages there gre many examples that the legend,' in some form or other, was spread throughout Europe and Asia Minor In France many towns have their dragon, albeit under different names. Best known among these is that of "Tarasque" which gave its name to the town of Tarascon, the home of the blustering Tartarin, In Belgium it is especially Mons, the capital Henault, that has remained faith tu! to its Dragon, there known as "lo Lumcon," Every year the town holds a procession in which in addition the savage Beast and St. Georg Poupée" also participates with her
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