While famous for being powerful, vast creatures of the sky, land or the mountains and sea. There is few well known smaller domestic dragons that guarded the home in folklore and other old customs. Associated with the cosmos, or the weather, elements, and even regarded as deities, some dragons are fire breathing or venomous, harmful and demonised. Not all dragons were monstrous.
Puk is a small friendly dragon with a serpentine body, four legs and wings. They appear in Germanic and Slavic folklore. The Puk is a domestic dragon who protects the livestock and the family, treated as a pet dog, who views the house owner as master, and in return is rewarded with treats. The favourite things Puk dragons like are honey and milk. So people who leave gifts for their own domestic dragons will get good fortune. Despite the friendliness of a Puk dragon, these don't feel that same love towards the neighbours, who they sometimes steal from.
Kaukas is a Baltic and Slavic dragon, small and glittering, who guard treasures, relics and even machines. A patron of blacksmiths, the Kaukas dragons tend to shelter in a house or a barn. These can protect and guard the home, as they leave signs to their owners such as a bit of straw and grass. Considered ghosts taking on the form of little dragons because it was believed they were once humans, Many people left offerings (food) out for the Kaukas dragons.
Aitvaras is a white or black supernatural creature that resembles a bird with a fiery tail, found in Lithuanian folklore. They can take up residence in a house and bring either good or bad luck on the humans living there. If people treat the Aitvaras well, leaving offerings, the dragon will bring stolen gold and grain. If not the home itself would end up burned.
Source and info from The Circle of the Dragon
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