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The natural instinct of Dragons was undoubtedly vicious, and they must have been most undesirable neighbours,…

Date of account: Published 1890
Source: Curious Creatures in Zoology
Reference: Curious Creatures in Zoology · selected passage 77
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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The natural instinct of Dragons was undoubtedly vicious, and they must have been most undesirable neighbours, teste the following story quoted by Topsell from Stumpsius:--“When the Region of Helvetia beganne first to be purged from noysome beasts, there was a horrible dragon found neere a Country towne called Wilser, w…

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The natural instinct of Dragons was undoubtedly vicious, and they must have been most undesirable neighbours, _teste_ the following story quoted by Topsell from Stumpsius:--“When the Region of _Helvetia_ beganne first to be purged from noysome beasts, there was a horrible dragon found neere a Country towne called _Wilser_, who did destroy all men and beastes, that came within his danger in the time of his hunger, inasmuch that that towne and the fields therto adjoyning, was called _Dedwiler_, that is, a Village of the Wildernes, for all the people and inhabitants had forsaken the same, and fledde to other places.

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