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| St. George's Day Posters in London c. 2014 |
Is England’s patron Saint George a dragon slayer? Or a lizard eater?
The question is prompted by these posters promoting St. George's Day, prominently displayed across the metropolis, blessed by the Lord Mayor of London himself. The weapon the beast is impaled upon is, obviously, a table fork. In which case, the beast itself can’t be much bigger than a garden lizard.
Do people eat lizards? Do heroes eat lizards?
Quite different from the way the dragon slayer was depicted in more heroic times….
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| St. George Slays the Dragon, by Raphael c. 1504 |
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