Every summer when tourists start wandering about in other countries there will be stories about them getting attacked by cows. And for some reason most of these stories come from Switzerland.
I read a book that posited that the Swiss had hired all the remaining dragons and use them as bank guards. The dragons consider the deposited gold their horde, so make excellent guards, and any robbers that get that far make tasty snacks. Not sure how legitimate withdrawals would work, but I imagine the dragon gets a cow or something to console him/herself with as the gold is carried away.
@Zonie
I'm sure you're wrong... but I'd be delighted beyond words if you were right! ^_^
EDIT (months later): Although... it would not surprise me at all to learn that the reputation of Swiss Banks did somewhat inspire J.K.Rowling's vision of Gringotts.
Naahh why? I love our cows! If you have nice talk with them, they will never attack! But attention! They only speak Swiss-German with a hard cow dialect! And never, EVER try to speak German with them! Maybe Austrian, that's ok. XD
@OneSwissMore I know this will be very late (to say the least), but what about some rubbish high school german, which to be fair is mostly halfway English. How would that work? and if the answer is unknown, no, I would not like to try it myself.
In Sweden we also have so much cows... Now I understand why America are think that Sweden and Switzerland are the same:
1. Both of them where neutral in the World Wars.
2. Switzerland and Sweden have Mountains and snow. And cheese.
3. Much people from Switzerland comes to Sweden for the nature.
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