Meduza (Russian folklore)

Meduza (Russian: Медуза), Meluza (Russian: Мелуза, literally «small», «little») or Meluzina (Russian: Мелузина) is a mythical creature in Russian folklore.

She was depicted in a Russian lubok of the 17th or 18th century.

[3] She is represented as a sea monster with the head of a beautiful dark-haired maiden, having the body and belly of a striped beast, a dragon tail with a snake's mouth at the end, and legs resembling those of an elephant with the same snake mouths at the end.

According to belief, her snake mouths contained a deadly dragon poison.

She was said to live in the Sea near the Ethiopian abyss, or in the Western Ocean.