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TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 months agoReally makes you think just how culturally biased wikipedia can be. Any other culture outside of Europe has a crazy story about monks slaying dragons, and wiki will pretext the story as mythology, or religious allegory. This article seems to adopt the position that France once had a Dragon problem…
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wikipedia reflects the editors. This page was made by 2 guys and a citation not. The type of people who bother to create a page about an obscure Catholic saint are usually Catholics themselves.
Meanwhile, the stories about far-off non-Western cultures are usually written by *philes (Japanophiles (aka weebs) write a lot of crap about Japan, for instance) or anthropologists. These are not the sort of people to actually believe in dragons.