1214 AD: a chronicler to the EMPEROR wrote that a river demon kidnapped washerwomen. with a method.

back to the Rhône, town of Beaucaire, right across the river from Tarascon (yeah that stretch of water has TWO dragon legends, file that under coincidence if you can). this one's the Drac. and this isn't peasant gossip. the source is Gervase of Tilbury, in the Otia Imperialia, a book he wrote FOR t……