How the Dragon was Tricked is a Greek fairy tale collected by Johann Georg von Hahn in Griechische und Albanesische Märchen with the title Von dem Schönen und vom Drakos ("About the Beauty and the Drakos"),[1] and sourced from Kukuli.
The king captured him, said he had earned death, and promised to spare him if he brought him the dragon's flying horse.
The fourth time, the horse did not neigh, the boy led him out, and once out, he mounted and rode off, taunting the dragon.
When the two years were up, the youth changed clothing with a beggar and found the dragon making a box, in order to trap him in it.
He was careful enough to open a hole too small for the dragon to escape, but not enough to keep it from biting him and swallowing him whole.
American folklorist D. L. Ashliman classified the tale, according to the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, as type AaTh 328, "The Boy Steals the Ogre's Treasures".