Zmey Gorynych
Slavic · numen · bylina medieval · Recorded classification
Head-counts vary by version — three is standard in the Russian and Ukrainian material, and versions with six, nine and twelve are recorded, sometimes with the heads regrowing as they are cut. The record states the standard and does not average the variants into a number no source gives.
Domains
- fire
- abduction predation
Relations
- slain by: Dobrynya NikitichNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Dobrynya record. The direction is the informative one anyway: the registry held the dragon-slayer and not the dragon, which is the ninth instance of that exact fault this programme has now recorded.Reference treatment: according to one bylina, Zmey Gorynych was the dragon killed by Dobrynya Nikitich. (secondary)
Sources
- Zmey Gorynych is the three-headed fire-breathing dragon of East Slavic epic, killed in the bylina by Dobrynya Nikitich.: Reference treatments of Zmey Gorynych and of the Dobrynya Nikitich bylina. (secondary)