Ladon: (Greek mythology). This Dagon was the guardian of Hera's golden apples, which grew in the Garden of Hesperides. Herakles killed Ladon in order to steal the apples of the goddess Hera - Read more in- "The Golden Apples"
  Yogune-Nushi: (Japanese mythology). An evil Japanese dragon who fed on human flesh and demanded a maiden sacrifice every year.
  Rahu y Ketu: (Indian mythology ). In Vedic Astrology, it was believed to be forces that affected present life as well as past and future. Rahu is considered the dragon’s head and is also known as the north node of the moon while Ketu is considered the dragon’s tail, also known as the south node of the moon. According to the astrological position of these two points in the day of your birth, it is possible to know your karmic and spiritual influences.
  Kumbaba or Humbaba: (Babylonia mythology). dragon who guards the Cedar Forest, where the gods lived. Gilgamesh, hero of a Babylonian epic poem, along with his friend Enkidu, embark on an adventure , challenging the dragon. Defeated,. Humbaba appeals to a receptive Gilgamesh for mercy but Enkidu convinces Gilgamesh to slay Humbaba. Gods go mad when they learn about this unnecessary death, and send illness to Enkidu. After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh sets out on the search of immortality, in order to reclaim his friend from Hell.
  Belua: (Celtic mythology ) During Morvidus reign, legendary king of the Britons from 341 to 336 B.C. a dragon called Belua appeared from the Irish Sea and began devouring the inhabitants of the western shores. In an attempt to stop this savagery, Morvidus met the beast in single-combat and used every weapon he could against her, but to no avail. The monster lunged at Morvidus and consumed him.
  Grendel: (Norse mythology) the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, tell us how Beowulf came to slay Grendel, Grendel's Mother, and many other reptiles. He was finally killed by a firedrake at the age of 88.
  Abraxas: (Persian mythology) term used by the Basilideans, a Gnostic sect of the second century, designating the Supreme Being. They believed the name contained great mysteries because it contained the seven Greek letters when computed numerically equaled the number 365, which is the number of days in the year. It was further believed that Abraxas commanded 365 gods, each possessing a virtue, so there was a virtue for each day of the year. It is believed that the mystic word abracadabra was derived from his name.
  Aido Hwedo: (Dahomey mythology- West Africa). Dragon who helped to create the universe by transporting Mawu, a god, through the cosmos. Aido Hwedo also created the mountains of the earth as well, which were said to be its excrement. However, the Earth became far too heavy, so the god Mawu ordered the Rainbow Serpent to coil underneath the world to hold it up. In order to help Aido Hwedo, the oceans were created to comfort the dragon while it held up the world. However, the oceans would sometimes not help, and therefore this dragon would tremble and thus make the Earth quake.
  Azhi Dahaki: (Persian mythology) Angra Mainyu, the Father of Lies, created Azhi Dahaki to rid the world of righteousness by extinguishing the light of a sacred flame known as The Divine Glory. When Atar, the god of fire, tried to save the flame, the dragon threatened to destroy the light of his fire forever, but Atar swore he would send his flames throughout the dragon's body. Azhi Dahaki drew back, but the divine hero Thraetaona bound and imprisoned the dragon on Mount Demavend near the Caspian Sea for the damage he had done to humankind on his evil quest.
It is believed that at the end of the world the dragon will be freed and, in his long repressed fury, will devour one third of all men and animals before the hero Keresaspa destroys him.
 

Nidhogg:  (Norse mythology) (also Nidhoggr). Dragon who lived at the foot of the world tree, Yggdrasil, constantly gnawing at its roots. During Ragnarok, Nidhoggr will meet Thor in battle where both will be mortally wounded.
In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil , also called the World Tree, is the giant ash tree that links and shelters all the worlds. Three wells lie at its base: the Well of Wisdom, guarded by Mimir; the Well of Fate , guarded by the Norns; and the Hvergelmir (Roaring Kettle), the source of many rivers.
In the top of the tree was perched an eagle named Vidofnir, and sitting upon its forehead was a hawk named Vedrfolnir. There are other inhabitants of the tree, such as the squirrel Ratatosk ("swift teeth"), a notorious gossip scurried up and down the tree between Níðhöggr and the eagle, forwarding insults between them., Níðhöggr , the dragon who gnawed the roots of Yggdrasil and four deer run across the branches of the tree and eat the buds.
Along Nidhogg, there are many other dragons such as Grafvolluth, Graback, Grafvolluth, Goin and Moin.

  Tiamat: (Babylonian mythology). In Babylonian Legends of earth's at the beginning there were no lands, gods or people, just Apsu and Tiamat. Apsu and Tiamat had many offspring and these became the first gods. However, Apsu grew displeased with the children because they disturbed 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).
The young gods became frightened and realized they were no match for the powerful Tiamat. They persuaded the god Marduk to champion them by promising him many things, including making him their supreme god and ruler of the universe.
Marduk kills his ancestor Tiamat by filling her with the winds and striking her vulnerable body, splitting her in two. With her upper half he constructed the arc of the sky and with her lower limbs he created the Earth.
  Smok Wawelski: (polish mythology). Smok Wawelski, , famous polish dragon who terrified the city of Kraków during the reign of King Krak. He laired in a cave under Wawel Hill on the banks of the Vistula river. The dragon could only be appeased if the townfolk would leave a young girl in front of its cave once a month. The King certainly wanted to put a stop to the dragon, but his bravest knights fell to its fiery breathe.
every girl in the city was eventually sacrificed except one, the King's daughter Wanda. In desperation, the King promised his beautiful daughter's hand in marriage to anybody who could defeat the dragon. Great warriors from near and far fought for the prize and failed. One day, a poor cobbler's apprentice named Szewczyk Dratewka accepted the challenge. He stuffed a lamb with sulphur and set it outside the dragon's cave. The dragon ate it and soon became incredibly thirsty. No amount of drinking could quell his stomachache, and after swelling up from drinking half of the Vistula River, he exploded. Dratewka married the King's daughter as promised and they lived happily ever after.
 

Quetzalcoatl: (aztec mythology). Also known as the "Feathered Snake", he was one of the major deities of the Aztec, Toltecs, and other Middle American peoples. Quetzalcoatl would be considered the originator of the arts, poetry and all knowledge. He brought fertility to the land and light to his people. He taught them the art of agriculture, including the cultivation of the maize plant, how to dig into the earth to mine gold and precious stones, the secrets of the zodiac, and the movements of the planets and the stellar system. He was the inspiration behind poetry, learning and all works of art from the simplest sketch to the most elaborate piece of jewellery. The Maya of Mexico knew him as Kukulkán; the Quiché-Maya of Guatemala, as Gukumatz, and sometimes was known as Ehecatl, the wind god.
According to the leyend, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca had originally created the world out of the goddess Tlalteutli by ripping her apart and fashioning the world from her pieces. She had to be appeased by human sacrifice in order to continue giving the corn that sustained life.

 

Scylla: (greek mythology) a sea dragon who lived underneath a dangerous rock at one side of the Strait of Messia. She threatened passing ships and in the Odyssey ate six of Odysseus' companions.

According to the leyend, Scylla was a gorgeous daughter of Phorcys, who loved to swim naked in the sea. One day, Poseidon saw her and fall madly in love. When Amphitrite learned about  Poseidon's infatuation with Scylla, she became Understandably jealous, and decided to punish her husband's lovers. Amphitrite threw magical herbs into Scylla's bathing pool, and when the woman took her bath, at once she transformed into a barking monster with six heads and twelve feet.

  Fafnir: (Norse mythology) A dragon that began life as a giant. In his youth he killed his father to gain the Nibelung treasure. Then, through magical means, Fafnir transformed himself into a dragon so that he could better guard the new, ill-gotten treasures. As Fafnir grew older he became more vicious. Finally the Norse hero Siegfried (also called sigurd) arrived and defeated Fafnir by plunging his sword Balmung (also known as Gram) into the beast's neck.- Read more in - Siegfried and Fafnir.
  Vritra: (Indian mythology), He was a naga-dragon who was said to be so huge that his coils surrounded mountains, and his head touched the sky. He was the bringer of drought, and his chief enemy was Indra. Vritra gathered all the waters of the world into himself and cause a drought to cover the whole earth. The world became a wasteland. In a distant land, he hid in his fortress, hording his treasure so that the world drew ever more parched. Finally, Indra, who would become the king of the gods, challenged the dragon. The two fought a terrible battle, and in the end, Vritra was destroyed by Indra's thunderbolt. Indra then released the waters to flow back to the world.
 

 Herensuge: (Basque mithology) Also called Iransuge or Sugaar, it was a dreadful dragon-snake that, according to some tales, had seven heads and can fly, although in most legends it is deprived of wings. it ate cattle, herds, and sometimes, humans, that's why heroes were often given the task to slain it, and there are many legends where this is accomplished. One of the most famous, is the one referring to Teodosio.

This legend tells us about the time when Teodosio de Goñi came back from fighting the Muslims and he had a vision of a pilgrim, who in fact was the devil, who told him his wife was unfaithful to him. He went into a tantrum, came into the house and killed his parents who were lying on the nupcial bed, thinking they were his wife and her lover. As penance for the for double parricide , he had to wander about in the mountains burdened with chains until the chains broke.
Wandering about in Aralar, he got another vision. This time was the appearance of the Devil as a dragon. Teodosio commended his soul to Saint Michael who came in his help, beat the dragon and made it flee to hell through a deep hole. The chains Teodosio was bearing finally broke. He built a sanctuary in honor of the Archangel: this is San Miguel de Aralar Sanctuary, where you can still see the chams through which the dragon fled.

  Ollipeist: (irish mithology). The story goes that when St. Patrick came to Ireland the first thing he did was rid the island of snakes. But then he turned his attention to the dragons and started imprisoning them. Knowing his fate if he stayed Ollipeist fled the country and in so doing left his mark with his tail in what is now called the Shannon Valley
 

Zu: (sumeria mythology) He was a clever and sneaky dragon that stole the Tablets of Law, the Tupsimati, from the god Enlil. Enlil wore these tablets on him, and they held the universal laws upon them. Zu took them up to the top of the Sabu Mountains where she kept them in her nest. Enlil sent his son Ninurta after Zu to retrieve the tablets. Ninurta killed Zu and returned to Enlil the Tablets of Law, thus preventing the universe from returning to the primordial chaos

 

Bida: (Africa) Bida is a dragon from a West African epic poem called the Dausi.

Knowing his death was near, the dying King Dinga summoned his eldest son to him to pass on the secret of kingship. The eldest would not come, but his youngest son, Lagarre, did. King Dinga told Lagarre to find nine jars of water as whoever washed in them would become king. He also told Lagarre to take the Tabele drum out into the northern desert and beat it.

Lagarre washed in the water from the nine jars and became king before heading off into the desert. When he struck the drum, the city of Wagadoo rose from the sand. He tried to enter the city but found himself encircled by the dragon Bida. Lagarre made a deal with Bida, he would sacrifice a girl to the dragon each year if Bida would allow him to enter the city and would shower the city with gold, as Bida was able to spew gold from his mouth.

Bida agreed and the annual sacrifice and the prosperity of the city went on for three generations. It was brought to an end, however, when one of the lovers of the annual sacrifice objected to it and went off to kill Bida. Mamadi Sefe Dekote succeeded in cutting off Bida's head, killing the dragon. Bida's head was knocked to the Gold Coast, which is why gold is plentiful there.

 

Isa Bere: (Africa) Isa Bere lived in the mountains and drank the water of the Niger River, causing a major drought downstream. The peasants were starving and pleaded to King Samba for relief. The king and his bard Tarafe, battled the beast for eight years, , using up 800 spears. Eventually the dragon was killed by a long sword in the heart. The waters of the Niger flowed again.

  Leviatan: Originally cited as a “great sea monster” the wriggling, twisting dragon, he is often associated in the Old Testament, with Satan or the Devil. Leviathan is a symbol of the enemies of Israel, or that he represents the climax of the destruction of everything that threatens Israel. In these days The Leviathan has become synonymous with any large monster or creature.
  Gargouille: (France). Was a scaly, fire-breathing dragon with a long neck and giant wings who lived in a cave near the river Seine in France. It swallowed ships, caused destruction with its fiery breath, and spouted so much water that it caused flooding. The residents of nearby Rouen attempted to placate La Gargouille with an annual offering of a live victim. Around the year 600, the priest Romanus (or Romain) arrived in Rouen and promised to deal with the dragon if the townspeople agreed to be baptized and to build a church. Romanus subdued the dragon, and burned it at the stake.
  Kinabalu: Dragon who lived at the top of Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. This dragon owned a grand pearl that the Chinese Emperor desired. He sent his son to retrieve it. The prince plotted a way to trick the dragon and steal the pearl. He captured the pearl, and then replaced it with an imitation. However, the dragon was not fooled, and he proceeded to chase the prince. As the dragon approached, the prince ordered for the cannon ball to launched at the dragon. Kinabalu, thinking it was his precious pearl, swallowed the cannon ball and died.
  The Lernaean hydra: (Greek mythology) Gigantic multi-headed dragon, with the middle one being immortal. Its breath and blood were deadly. She was killed by Hercules on his “Second Labor”.
According to the legend, Hercules travelled to Lerna Lake, where the Hydra's cave was near. After finding the hydra he forced it to come out by shooting burning arrows at the entrance. When the creature emerged, Hercules attempts to smash its heads with his club but he didn’t success, for whenever he smashed one head, two would grow where the one was originally.
Heracles called to his nephew Iolaus for help. Iolaus, stopped the heads from sprouting up by cauterizing the injured with torches as they came up. Heracles, having killed all the other heads, he cut off the immortal head.
  Dragon of Connacht: (Celtic mythology) A dragon that guarded a magical rowan tree which grew on an island in the center of a large lake. It was killed by a Prince named Froech who had been sent after a branch of the tree it was guarding. However Prince Froech also died for the poison which the dragon spit at him.
  Orochi or Yamata no Orochi: (Japanese mythology). A terrible eight-headed dragon that demanded a maiden sacrifice every year. So when the day of princes Kushinadas sacrifice come, hero Susano-0, made a deal with his father. He offered to rescue her daughter in exchange for her hand in marriage. The king readily agreed to this and so Susano-0 prepared eight barrels of sake. The next day Yamata-no-Orochi and each of its heads drank down a barrel until he become quite drunk. Afterwards, Susano-0 approached the dragon and cut off each head
  Kiyo: (Japanese folklore). Was a beautiful waitress who, according to Japanese folklore, worked in a teahouse on the Hidaka riverbank. A visiting priest named Anchin fell in love with her but after a time he overcame his passions and refrained from further meetings. Kiyo became furious and sought revenge. She went to the temple of Kompera to learn the art of magic. After studying for some time she turned herself into a dragon and flew to the monastery where the priest lived. He saw her coming and hid himself under the temple bell. With a great belch of fire, the dragon melted the bell, thereby killing the priest
  Dragon de Post Coch: (Folklore of Wales) Dragon who lived in north Wales and who disgusted the red colour. He used to fly down the valley and eat the people of Llanrhaeadr. The dragon wasn't choosey of who he ate, both young & old, male & female alike. One day the people decided to visit a local wise woman to find out how to kill the dragon. She told the to weave a cloth in red which would attract the dragon like bulls are attracted to red cloth today. She told them to stick iron spikes in the stone at the bottom of the valley and then cover this with the red cloth they had made. The people of Llanrhaeadr did this, and the next time the dragon came to eat the villagers, it was attracted to the stone and attacked it. The poor dragon impaled itself in the spikes and died.
Note: Post coch means red post.
  Aitvaras: (Lithuanian folklore) Creature that has the appearance of a cock while in doors and the appearance of a dragon out doors. An Aitvaras will lodge itself in a house, and refuses to leave. He usually nests in warm places such as the stove. According to the legend he will give goods and money to those who sell their souls to him; things he stole from other people.