Dragon Slayers of Myth and Legend

Charles Beuck
5 min readOct 3, 2019
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When it comes to the mythologies from around the world, no creature has quite the prominence as the Dragon. Bestial creatures, they are almost universally treated in folklore as being evil, greedy, gluttonous predators of man and all he holds dear. However, they do have one redeeming quality. Their existence provides the perfect justification for Dragonslayers to come into being. Heroes of mythic, even divine origin, the classic…

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Charles Beuck

Charles writes on art, history, politics, travel, fantasy, science fiction, poetry. BA in Psychology, MA, PhD in Political Science.