The dragon of Brno

So if you walk through the Old Town hall Gate to the courtyard, you find this lovely touristy "dragon". As you can plainly see, it's not really a dragon. The rumour is that, the loclas had never seen a crocodile before. But this thing looked scary and probably the scariest scaliest thing they could think of was dragon. close enough I guess.

So here's the abridged version of one of the legends of the dragon of Brno. There was a village nearby. Something was eating the livestock. Help was sent for. Help came but before it arrive it got scared and went back home to get someone else to do it.

A butcher said he would do it if he was given a bull's skin and some lime
(the mineral not the fruit).
He sewed the lime into the skin, set the bull's skin up for the dragon to eat. The dragon ate it, went to the river for a drink, the lime inside it swelled and killed the dragon. Said dragon was then stuffed and is now hanging behind the old town hall gate.