The Dragon Stone

Two variations on a wingless lindworm, taken from the 1678 edition of 'The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents' by Edward Topsell.

The book titles this creature as a cockatrice. At this time, definitions like lindworm, wyvern and cockatrice were used in different ways by different people. The standards used today were not universal at that time. This picture is a good example of this in action.

Courtesy of University of Houston Libraries
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sca/digital/beast/

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