Do stories about dragons matter?

So…I live in Scotland, and I was brought up by hippies. These are two fairly relevant things in explaining my love of celtic myths. Unrelated to those two things, it is also worth noting that I’m averse to happy endings (I love Thomas Hardy), and the old tales are neither forgiving nor saccharine. After all, sugar was a rare commodity then   … actually I bet you can correlate the availability of sugar in Britain with the ‘lightness’ of current storytelling. We have too much sugar in our diets, ...