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Dragon in the Rock
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Region: Chipewyan Indians, North America
Time Period: Unknown
References in Literature: None
Sources: Prophesy and Power among the Dogrib Indians

There was a dragon living under a three-part rock (or mountain) and 2 men wanted to kill it. So they went hunting and collected live ducks, loon, mink and other animals and strung them around the rock so that they cried. The noise brought the dragon from its hiding place, the lake called dek'woti ("Yellow Lake").

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