Guardian angel saves baby

[Smaug]

The whole story is a good example of mythical thinking in action. Notice how abrahamic religions actually have pagan elements that explain natural phenomena. Many modern people (not only abrahamic believers but also New Agers and so on) are in fact not too far away from a really primordal way of though and cognition that implies deities to explain everything and pre-dates modern religion by millenias.