A serpent-dragon so gigantic it coils circle the earth, keeps its tail trapped in its mouth so that the world will not fall apart. Leviathan's coils are multicolored and so incredibly bright that they outshine the sun. Other, normal-sized dragons make up Leviathan's meals. The Behemoth is his arch nemesis and they were created together, just as the universe was being formed. Acording to legend, on Judgment Day Behemoth and Leviathan will fight and kill eachother, leaving Leviathan's dead serpent-like body as food for the world.
The mightiest in power of the eight orders of Chinese Dragonhood. The Shen Lungs realm is the sea, sky, sun, moon and all of earth's soil. Good and bad weather are under the Shen Lungs control. They hold teh fortunes of all who work on the land and the sea. The Shen Lung is very powerful thus lazy. To avoid work of any kind a Shen Lung need only shrink to the size of a mouse and hide. If lightning strikes a house or trees that is because the Thunder God sent his servents to search for the lazy Shen Lungs. Shen Lung is the Chinese New Year Good Luck Dragon that appears in festivals and parades in a vast assortment of colors.
A child of the Greek Typhon and Echidna. The Hydra has a long snake-like body with an innumerable amount of heads. Each time Herakles (Hercules-Roman counterpart)cut off one of the Hydra's heads, two more would grow back in it's place. Finally, Herakles (Hercules) tried (actually his nephew, Iolaus did) burning the stump after he had cut off a head. This stopped the growth of two more heads but not even Herakles (Hercules) could destroy the main head of the Hydra so he trapped the monster in a cave and places an immense, immovable boulder before it.
A remarkably old dragon who lived in a gigantic cavern in the middle of the Lonely Mountains in J.R.R. Tolkin's The Hobbit. Smaug would lie for days in his cave, sprawled all over his great piles of treasures, seemingly asleep but for one slightly open eye (to watch for intruders). When angry he woudl fly out of his lair and destroy anything that crossed his path. A mighty archer, Bard, brought Smaug to his end by plunging an arrow into the only spot without a scale on his underside.
A young princess (Margret) was turned to a hideous serpet by her evil stepmother. The Laidly Worm was banished from the castle and wreaked havoc on a crag (Heugh of Spindleton). She devoured everthing she came across. When Childe Wynd discovered that his kingdom was beign terrorized by a dragon, he set out to destroy it. When he finally approached the Laidly Worm she spoke to him and told him to kiss her three times for that would break the spell. Childe Wynd recognized his sisters voice and kissed her three times, releasing Margret from the spell.
Last of the living dragons in Dragonheart. He had given a part of his heart so that the prince (just a baby) could live. The prince unfortunatly, followed his fathers bad behaviors and was a terrible ruler, abusing all of his subjects. Unfortunatly (again) the only way to kill the prince (now king) was to kill Draco for their hearts beat as one.
In Babylonian Legends of earth's beginning there were no lands, gods or people, just Apsu and Tiamat. Apsu was the spirit of fresh water, older, and more beautifully formed than Tiamat. Tiamat was the spirit of salt water, chaos and she had a splotchy bovine body whit eagle wings and the head of an ox. Apsu and Tiamat had many offspring and these became the frst gods. However, Apsu grew displeased with the children because they distrubed the peace and quiet that ruled the universe so he set out to destroy them. Tiamat did not want him to kill their children and begged for him not to do so. One of their children heard this and killed Apsu, angering Tiamat and she spawned a brood of fearsome creatures (giant serpents, lion-dragons, roaring dragons, scorpion-men). Marduk, one of her godchildren, and Tiamat, plus her new creatures, met in combat. Marduk slew Tiamat with his fork of lightning after capturing her in his net.
A dragon that began life as a giant. In his youth he slayed is father to gain his treasures and then, through magical means, transformed himself into a dragon so that he could better guard the new, ill-gotten treasures. AS fafnir grew older he became more vicious and terrorized vast areas of Scandinavia until finally Siegfried dug a pit along the path that Fafnir used when he wet to drink. Siegfried climbed down into the pit and waited with his sword for Fafnir. When Fafnir paused over the pit Siegfried thrust his weapon into Fafnir, knocking him down so that Siegfried could dispense the fatal blow.
A Japanese dragon able to live in the air, on land or in the water. Ryu is considered one of the four sacred creatures of Orient and symbolizes storms and rain.
Sometime near the year 700 (ad) the legendary Polish hero, Krak, was at the peak of his fame. His wanderings lead him to the town of Wavel where the inhabitants were terrorized by a gigantic, malignant, birdlike dragon with huge purple wings. Krak destroyed the dragon by giving it a sheepskin full of saltpeter which caused him to drink water until he burst into tiny pieces.
During the middle years of the Dark Ages near the town of Tarscon on the banks of the Rhône lived the Tarasque. It was a lumbering apelike crature with a frighting feline head, huge fangs, four bear paws, a hard, dense colorful pelt and the tail of a viper (type of snake). One day the creature left its cave and, in the middle of devouring a hapless peasant, Saint Martha appeared. Acting simply and without fear she sprinked holy water on the Tarasque, rendering it harmless. However, the townspeople still destroyed the Tarasque, despite its changed behavior.
On one of many travels, the hero Susano traveled through the Izumo province of Japan. He ran accross a couple weeping and asked why. Their reply was that their daughter was to be a sacrifice to a dragon with eight tails, eight heads, glowing red eyes and was so big that it filled an entire valley. Naturally Susano offered to rescue the daughter (named Kushinada) if she would marry him. She agreed and together they tricked the dragon by making him fall asleep and Susano cut the dragon into pieces.
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