Challenge Entry - 
Weekly Witchy CHALLENGE - Dragon Magick
To be honest, I have never been particularly interested in dragons from a mythological perspective. They have always captivated me as creatures and I love reading about dragons in fantasy stories – Eragon and Fourth Wing, anyone? 
Anyway, I decided to break out my Celtic Mythology encyclopedia and see what it had to say about dragons in mythology.
dragon Mythological beast. Breathing fire, eating maidens, scorching villages – the dragon of medieval legend was an enormous scaly monster, sometimes winged, often snaky, that demanded a hero. In Britain, St. George or St. Michael rescued the land by slaying the evil being, who was sometimes said to be the Devil himself. In Ireland, St. Patrick was the favorite dragon-killer of storytellers, for he fought and killed the monstrous Corra, Caoranach, and Ollipheist, all described as monstrous beings. Indeed, despite the fact that snakes never existed in Ireland, these fearsome creatures were described as serpentine. A number of interpreters have found in these images a coded message about the extirpation of pagan beliefs by the new Christian religion, an interpretation that has been applied as well to the George/Michael Motifs.
In Britain, however, saints were not required; regular heroes could step in when necessary to fight worms - called that not because they were small or insignificant, but because worm was the Norse and Saxon word for “dragon.” Famous English dragons included those of Unsworth and Wantley, the latter having seven heads and three times that many sets of eyes. In the 12th century the famous Linton Worm ravished Roxburghshire with its poisonous breath; it was killed when a local hero shoved a blazing brand down its throat. Even as late as 1614, a dragon was allegedly sighted in West Sussex. While some reports touched on standard characteristics such as breathing fire, eating sheep and maidens, and the like, others described dragons as beautiful, especially when curled up to sleep, their scales looking like shining jewels.
Killing dragons was not easy, for those shining scales protected them. One Scottish dragon had to be lured out of her lair, where she was nursing several dragonets between destructive forays around the countryside. Finally one Charles the Skipper hit on the clever stratagem of building a bridge of empty barrels covered with iron spikes. When the dragon ventured onto the bridge, the spikes impaled her. Meanwhile, back at the cave, her children were being smoked to death by her erstwhile prey. In despair at losing her brood, the dragon flailed herself with her massive tail until she died, on a rock still called Dragon Rock.
Although often described as based in Celtic belief, dragon tales are in fact of unknown origin. They occur most frequently in Wales, a nation symbolized by a red dragon; the Welsh hero who became King Arthur’s father bears the provocative name of Uther Pendragon, which may mean “dragon’s head.” Some writers have imaginatively linked dragons with underground rivers, others with earth energy; their most famous contemporary appearance is in the work of American-born Irish writer Anne McCaffery, whose fantasy civilization of Perth is described in Dragonbold, Dragonflight, The White Dragon, and many other worlds.
–The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore by Patrician Monoghan
While reading more about these dragons, something odd struck me – most of the dragons mentioned are said to be female, even mothers… 
From the same encyclopedia, we find that Corra is mentioned as being an Irish heroine or Goddess. Caoranach is said to be an Irish mythological being but is also spoken about with feminine pronouns. Lastly, Ollipheist redirects to an entry titled Liscannor which states that the location (Liscannor) is connected to the story of The Cailleach. The nearby cliffs are called Ceann an Caillghe, “the hag’s head,” and local legends connect that hag with the monster called Ollipheist…
So all the dragons St. Patrick killed were female dragons… I don’t have time to go down this rabbit hole any further about dragons being killed and the power of a woman’s voice and anger, but it’s a correlation I am definitely making note of!