Ileana Simziana
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Ileana Simziana or Ileana Sînziana is a Romanian fairy tale collected and written down by Petre Ispirescu between 1872 and 1886. It tells the story of an unnamed youngest daughter of an emperor, who d
A Romanian stamp that shows the unnamed princess from Ileana Simziana fighting the dragon.
Kulshedra
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The kulshedra or kuçedra is a water, storm, fire and chthonic demon in Albanian mythology and folklore, usually described as a huge multi-headed female serpentine dragon. She is the archetype of darkn
Ileana Simziana
…married off, but the youngest decides to wear masculine clothes and go to battle. She goes to another kingdom and releases a king's son from a dangerous kulshedra, and asks for a horse as reward. Later, she rides to a third kingdom where the king has set a suitor challenge: if anyone can jump over a moat and fetch…
When the weather turns foul, black clouds gather and heavy storms break, kulshedra is believed to be in the vicinity. A drangue can counter her destructive power driving the storms away.
18th-century icon of Saint George and the Dragon by Çetiri brothers, from Ardenica Monastery, now in the National Museum of Medieval Art in Tirana.