According to Polish legend, in the 8th century there was this dragon that lived in a cave in a hillside in Krakow, and it used to eat rabbits, sheep, goats, and beautiful girls.
And people wanted to kill this dragon so that it wouldn’t eat any more rabbits, sheep, goats, and girls. So the knights tried to kill it, but it had 7 heads, and every time you would chop off a head, it would grow back. So the dragon killed all the knights that tried to kill it.
But then finally Prince Krak (an 8th century prince for whom Krakow is named) got sick of this dragon, and got it to eat this stuff that made it really really thirsty, and then it drank too much water from the lake and exploded.
And that was the end of the Krakow dragon.
But I wish that there really was a Krakow dragon, and then Prince Krak, instead of killing the dragon, maybe could have forseen feminism, and could have given the dragon to the Vikings to take with them to North America, and then the Vikings could have left it there, and there it would stay for 1,000 years (dragons have long lifespans), until second-wave feminism came in the 1960’s. And then maybe that dragon could have reawakened to eat all the nasty American feminist women, so there would be no more feminism.
But then again, if I were that dragon, I would never want to eat nasty American women, and/or nasty feminists. They would probably be icky and yucky to eat. If I were that dragon and I accidentally ate one, I would spit her right out and say “yuck!” And those Krakow girls are so sweet and gorgeous I would imagine that they were quite yummy to the dragon. So that is why that dragon stayed in Krakow and didn’t go to America.
I think you were describing a Hydra, for when a head was chopped off, three more grew back and it’s breath could kill instantly. It lived in a swamp and ate humans and anything else unwary enough to get close to it. I never knew Poland has her own King Arthur, thanks for the interesting bit of history.
Taras
Poor dragon! He would have a bad indigestion!