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* 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.
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* 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
* 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.
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