Different traditons concerning dragons. Celtic and Asian are ones I've vaguely

Dragons are so cool and it's very interesting to read about how they differ from eachother in different cultures. I'm from Scandinavia and usually our dragons basically looks like big snakes usually with horns and they have the ability to breathe fire or poison. Their blood can also be poisonous. One of the best known Norse dragons is the Midgaard Serpent which you've probably heard of!

It seems like dragons are in nearly every mythological community. Japanese, german, celtic, Irish, English and it go on and on. Celtic people showed great reverence for the dragon even had them on their flag. Some saw them as serpentine and others monsters. In Scripture dragons refered to any great monster or beast. I think a person could do alot of research and just scratch the surface.

a really enjoyable book about Dragons is the flight of dragons by Peter Dickinson. it's not the story that the film with the same name was based on (that was called The Dragon and the George. I forget the name of the author) instead it takes different literature accounts of dragons or beings with similar traits to dragons and pulls together ideas about their life cycles, breeding patterns, habits, biology and so on, with theories taken from these accounts. such as how they can breathe fire, and why there are no fossil or modern remains, how they can fly, and so on. it's very clever how it ties different points in these accounts and comes up with theories that would explain that. there are some references to oriental dragons, as well as the more usual European idea of Dragons, and even looks into things like Beowulf, and how the creatures in that may have been dragons and why. so it's quite an interesting, and also beautifully illustrated read. if you want another source of dragon mythology from different cultures, I beleive the childrens picture book, Dragonology, does touch on different cultures dragons. but there's quite a bit of straight fiction woven through too, which may be confusing. it's also worth reading up on winged serpents, basilisk, chimera, wyrm, wyvern, gryphon and so on. mythical creatures that could each be loosely considered dragons in some way or other.