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Table of contents 1 Dragons in Legends and Mythology
2 Dragons in Literature
3 Dragons in Radio
4 Dragons in Television
5 Dragons in Film
6 Dragons in Comics and Puppetry
7 Dragons in Songs
8 Dragons in Video Games
9 Related Topics

Dragons in Legends and Mythology

• Apalala, a mythical river dragon who was converted to Buddhism
• Fafnir, transformed dragon (Norse mythology)
• the unnamed dragon defeated by Saint George
• the unnamed dragon (referred to by the Saxon dracan and wyrm) defeated by Beowulf and Wiglaf in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
• the Tarasque, tamed by Saint Martha.
• An unnamed, five-headed dragon subdued by the Buddhist goddess Benzaiten
• As a child the prophet Merlin was to be sacrificed to a red dragon and a white dragon, but won his freedom by foreseeing their battle and the victory of the red dragon.
• Tiamat and Apsu from Babylonian mythology are sometimes considered dragons
• Zu from Sumerian mythology
• Azhi Dahaki from Persian mythology
• Illuyankas from Turkish mythology
• Yam-nahar from Canaanite mythology
• Apophis from Egyptian mythology
• Nidhogg (the 'Dread Biter') and Jormungand the Midgard's Worm from Norse mythology
• Ladon from Greek mythology
• Quetzalcoatl from Aztec mythology has a dragon-like aspect

• Ancalagon the Black and Glaurung the Golden in The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The (genetically engineered) Dragons of Pern from the novels by Anne McCaffrey
• Griaule, a gigantic dragon, paralyzed and moribund yet still capable of casting a baleful influence, in stories by Lucius Shepard
• Jabberwock, likely a dragon, in Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking-Glass
• Falkor, the luck dragon in The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
• Mayland Long, who used to be a Chinese dragon, in Tea with the Black Dragon and Twisting the Rope by R. A. MacAvoy
• Norbert, Hagrid's dragon baby in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Various unnamed adult dragons in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• The Reluctant Dragon, from the story of the same name by Kenneth Grahame
• Smaug, in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Various dragons in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, notably The Colour of Magic and Guards! Guards
• Various dragons in the Dragonlance series of fantasy novels
• Various dragons in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novels
• Unnamed dragons (there used to be three: two males and one female but the males killed each other in the first mating season leaving the female alone for millennia) in The Belgariad and The Malloreon series of fantasy novels by David and Leigh Eddings.
• A depiction of a Chinese dragon as the sigil of the Dragon, Lews Therin Telamon, in The Wheel of Time series of novels by Robert Jordan.

• Trorg, the Last Amber Dragon in Hordes of the Things
• The blue sock-stealing dragons in Hordes of the Things, which survive and steal even unto this day

• Grisu, the little dragon (animated series)
• The Ice Dragon, in Noggin the Nog
• The Soup Dragon from The Clangers
• Hakuryu, Cho Hakkai's dragon in the anime series Gensomaden Saiyuki

• Draco in Dragonheart and Drake in Dragonheart II: A New Beginning
• Mushu in Disney's Mulan (animation)
• Haku in Spirited Away
• Vermithrax Pejorative in Touchstone Pictures Dragonslayer
• Unnamed dragon in George Pal's Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
• Unnammed dragon in Ray Harryhausen's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
• Fafnir in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen Part 1: Siegfried
• Large numbers of unnamed dragons in Touchstone Pictures Reign of Fire
• Norbert in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Elliot in Disney's Pete's Dragon (animation)
• Maleficent in dragon form in Disney's Sleeping Beauty (animation)
• Unnamed two-headed dragon in Lucas' Willow (unofficially dubbed "the Eborsisk" in honor of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel)
• Falkor in Petersen's The Neverending Story
• Unnamed six-legged dragon in Hallmark's Merlin (TV movie)
• Two small unnamed dragons in Hallmark's Arabian Nights (TV movie)
• Unnamed dragon in Hallmark's Jason and the Argonauts (TV movie)

• The Great Red Dragon and his colleagues, in Jeff Smith's Bone

• Trogdor the burninator
• Puff the Magic Dragon

• Yoshi

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