This article is about the mythological creature. For the public sculpture, see Wawel Dragon (statue). For the film award, see Kraków Film Festival. For the extinct reptile, see Smok (archosaur).
Wawel Dragon
Smok Wawelski
The Wawel Dragon, in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographie Universalis (1544)
The Wawel Dragon (Polish: Smok Wawelski), also known as the Dragon of Wawel Hill, is a famous dragon in Polish legend.
According to the earliest account (13th century), a dragon (Greek: holophagus, "one who swallows whole") plagued the capital city of Kraków established by legendary King Krak (or Krakus, Gracchus, etc.). The man-eating monster was being appeased with a weekly ration of cattle, until finally being defeated by the king's sons using decoy cows stuffed with sulfur. But the younger prince ("Krak the younger" or "Krak junior") murdered his elder brother to take sole credit, and was banished afterwards. Consequently Princess Wanda had to succeed the kingdom. Later in a 15th-century chronicle, the prince-names were swapped, with the elder as "Krak junior" and the younger as Lech. It also credited the king himself with masterminding the carcasses full of sulfur and other reagents. A yet later chronicler (Marcin Bielski, 1597) credited the stratagem to a cobbler named Skub (Skuba), adding that the "Dragon's Cave" (Polish: Smocza Jama) lay beneath Wawel Castle (on Wawel Hill on the bank of the Vistula River).
The WawelDragon (Polish: Smok Wawelski), also known as the Dragon of Wawel Hill, is a famous dragon in Polish legend. According to the earliest account...
The Wawel Royal Castle (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvavɛl] ; Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically...
as opposed to malevolent dragons known variously as lamia [bg], ala or hala, or aždaja. The Polish smok (e.g. WawelDragon of Kraków) or the Ukrainian...
marry the princess. A popular Polish folk tale is the legend of the WawelDragon, which is first recorded in the Chronica Polonorum of Wincenty Kadłubek...
most famous Polish dragon (Polish: Smok) is the Wawel Dragon or Smok Wawelski, the Dragon of Wawel Hill. It supposedly terrorized ancient Kraków and lived...
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founder of Kraków. Krakus is also credited with building Wawel Castle and slaying the WawelDragon by feeding it a dead sheep full of sulfur. The latter...
(2013), as well as Polish short film Smok (2015), based on the legend of WawelDragon. In 2016 he appeared the film Star Trek Beyond as well as the film 6...
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southern Poland. The only species is Smok wawelski (after the WawelDragon, a dragon from Polish folklore) and was named in 2012. It is larger than any...
Krak II and Lech II also appear in Polish legends as the killers of the Waweldragon. Another possible reflex may be found in Nakula and Sahadeva. Mothered...
his essays and articles under the title Smok wawelski nad Tamizą ("The WawelDragon on the Thames"). In 2002, at the suggestion of the city's mayor, Bogdan...
Tower and St. Mary's Basilica) Kraków (Bishop's Palace) Kraków (Wawel Hill – WawelDragon Statue) Kraków (Sheraton Grand Kraków) In this leg's Roadblock...
that we remember dinosaurs. The Scots have Nessie; we Poles have the Waweldragon." In 1998, Ioan Moisin, a Christian Democratic senator and a Greek Catholic...
in Kraków were cited for hanging a rainbow flag over a statue of the WawelDragon; possible charges suggested by the police included "putting an object...
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