The Dragon of Loschy Hill, in the parish of Stonegrave near Nunnington in North Yorkshire, was a beast with the power to knit its severed body back together, so that no blow could finish it. A knight named Peter Loschy resolved to kill it, and had armour made set all over with razor blades, so that every time the dragon coiled to crush him it cut itself to pieces against him.
The story
Still the parts crawled back together — until Loschy's faithful hound seized each severed piece in its jaws and carried it off to a hill a mile away, keeping the dragon from healing while its master hacked it apart. When at last the beast was dead, the joyful dog leapt up to lick its master's face; but Loschy's armour and skin were smeared with the dragon's venom, and the loving lick poisoned them both. The grateful villagers buried the knight beside his hound in Nunnington church, where a worn effigy of a knight with a dog at his feet is still shown as the memorial of the tale, recorded by the Reverend Thomas Parkinson in 1888.