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Line 1: {{trope}} Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include: * One of the dragons that Saint George fought is often depicted in art and the story itself became the [[Trope Maker]] for many Dragon stories in the west. However, one of the dragon's most unusual abilities hasn't been very popular, eye spots which disguise its eye's true location scattered about on its wings. * In Abrahamic Mythology, the [[Our Angels Are Different\|seraphim]] are occasionally described as serpent or dragon like, when not being six winged humanoids. Line 29 ⟶ 31: * As mentioned above, in the Canaanite creation myth tells of the storm god, Ba'al, fighting Yamm, the sea, and his cohorts, Tannin, the dragon of the sea, and Loran (or Lothan, also known as the Hebrew Leviathan), the serpent with seven heads. * One of the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, ''The Two Brothers'', contains a many-headed dragon, notable in that it is intelligent and speaks to the hero. * While calling them "dragons" is more of a result of a convention rather than them being the same creatures, Hungarian dragons are very different from both their eastern and western counterparts. They are ~~describd~~described as giants with multiple heads. The number of their heads relates to the amount of power they possess as well as several motifs relating to them (the number of towers on their castle, the number of miles distance they can throw their weapons, the number of days it takes for an opponent with equal power to defeat them). They traditionally come in groups of three brothers with three, seven and respectively 12 heads, with the 12 headed brother being the oldest and most ~~powerfull~~powerful, and can not be defeated by conventional means. If there's only one dragon around, it usually has three or seven heads, and takes the role of the 12 headed dragon as the major antagonist. If regular western dragons appear in the same setting as the Hungarian variant, they will be ~~reffered~~referred to as dragon-serpents. * There is also [[Orochi]], an eastern dragon with eight heads and a body that spanned the length of a mountain range. * The Snallygaster, a fearsome beast from American folklore is a ''weird'' dragon. Said to have scaly skin, birdlike wings, a long beak with nasty fangs, a huge eye in the center of its forehead, and writhing tentacles, it's a dangerous and aggressive beast said to grab and carry people off to their doom, or drain their blood and leave them to die. {{tropesubpagefooter}} ~~{{reflist}}~~ ~~[[Category:Our Dragons Are Different]]~~ ~~[[Category:Mythology]]~~