ABSTRACT
To attack and destroy the dragon may be a prerequisite of this state of cultural evolution. It is significant to note that the tale of the European dragon is always presented ultimately to highlight the dragon slayer. This dragon slayer generally succeeds because he represents a pan-European Christian religion or a newly emerging state. A faint echo of the relationship between a dragon and its slayer, and the resultant heroic opinion of the slayer, is found in a variety of contemporary cultural manifestations that connect the taming of serpents with spiritual advancement. The dragon seems to fade as a real force when kinship affiliations become less significant, a typical factor in the development of the state. Further, the Christian knights who slayed dragons to prove that the God of Christianity was more powerful than the minions of the devil. In the European Middle Ages, the dragon was the greatest danger that could be imagined.
