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Inspired by something I saw discussed on Youtube comments recently about the Pokemon, Flapple. It's a tiny dragon that grew inside an apple and uses apple skin for wings and armor and can spit highly-acidic apple juice as a weapon. It's previous form is just an apple with eyes and a tail sticking out (which you can also evolve into an apple pie/dragon hybrid if you have the game's other version).
There were two main theories about the origin of this - one about how it was a reference to "dragon fruit" and another being "imagine if you bit into an apple and found a *wyrm* inside". But someone else said that there were actually dragons that grew on trees like fruit, and resembled such, in mythology from somewhere (non specific). I googled around but I couldn't find any reference to the latter. Any ideas, anyone? Iloveparrots ( talk) 15:44, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
a serpent is even emitting a fleur-de-lis from its mouth.These entangled scenes, and the dragon-like gripping beast, may be to do with Odin, who did something complicated with the tree Yggdrasil (hanging himself on it for nine days in a sacrifice of himself to himself, and presumably he was OK afterward since his destiny is to be eaten by the wolf Fenrir): among his 170 or more names is Fengr, which means "catcher" in the sense of snagging fangs or thorns. The French dragon-thing Peluda lived in a river and had long green hair, which has often made me wonder if it was part plant. In the Danish folktale The dragon and daughter, a worm found in a nut grows into a dragon. Card Zero (talk) 19:26, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
I’d be interested to know what the largest history forum is on the internet. I found a few forums online, but I wasn’t sure how big the forums are. Interstellarity ( talk) 18:49, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
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Inspired by something I saw discussed on Youtube comments recently about the Pokemon, Flapple. It's a tiny dragon that grew inside an apple and uses apple skin for wings and armor and can spit highly-acidic apple juice as a weapon. It's previous form is just an apple with eyes and a tail sticking out (which you can also evolve into an apple pie/dragon hybrid if you have the game's other version).
There were two main theories about the origin of this - one about how it was a reference to "dragon fruit" and another being "imagine if you bit into an apple and found a *wyrm* inside". But someone else said that there were actually dragons that grew on trees like fruit, and resembled such, in mythology from somewhere (non specific). I googled around but I couldn't find any reference to the latter. Any ideas, anyone? Iloveparrots ( talk) 15:44, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
a serpent is even emitting a fleur-de-lis from its mouth.These entangled scenes, and the dragon-like gripping beast, may be to do with Odin, who did something complicated with the tree Yggdrasil (hanging himself on it for nine days in a sacrifice of himself to himself, and presumably he was OK afterward since his destiny is to be eaten by the wolf Fenrir): among his 170 or more names is Fengr, which means "catcher" in the sense of snagging fangs or thorns. The French dragon-thing Peluda lived in a river and had long green hair, which has often made me wonder if it was part plant. In the Danish folktale The dragon and daughter, a worm found in a nut grows into a dragon. Card Zero (talk) 19:26, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
I’d be interested to know what the largest history forum is on the internet. I found a few forums online, but I wasn’t sure how big the forums are. Interstellarity ( talk) 18:49, 30 July 2023 (UTC)