ABSTRACT

Millions of years ago (circa 1500) in a land far away (England and Europe), fear was just a part of life. The things feared the most included (but are not limited to): purgatory, witches, plague, the big bad wolf, sea monsters, and mermaids. But the most ferocious fear was the fear of dragons. Dragons were the most particularly scary thing about life and without proper management had a bad habit of creating a human barbecue. Since humans don’t like to be barbecued, they went about adding warnings to maps so as to discourage sailors and travellers away from anything other than official trade routes. Areas they felt dragons were particularly hungry were marked here be dragons. It worked, yet much to the disappointment of many die-hard Game of Thrones fans, winter came, winter went, and the only wall that everyone spent time worrying about was the one being built by Donald Trump.