Monster Slayer
21 books featuring this archetype
The Monster Slayer neutralizes threats that embody chaos. This figure restores safe space for culture to flourish.
Rigveda
Anonymous
1200-900 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Poetic Edda
Anonymous
1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Völsunga saga
Anonymous
1250-1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Shan Hai Jing
Anonymous
300-100 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Harivamsa
Vyasa
100-300 CE
Indian, Hindu
Book of Dede Korkut
Anonymous
1500-1600 CE
Persian, Turkic
Gesta Danorum
Saxo Grammaticus
1185-1222 CE
Germanic, Norse
Ragnars saga loðbrókar
Anonymous
1270-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse
Kalevipoeg
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1853-1862 CE
Slavic, Estonian
Shanhai Jing Commentaries
Guo Pu
300-600 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Hrólfs saga kraka
Anonymous
1200-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse
Ganesha Purana
Anonymous
1200-1500 CE
Indian, Hindu
Harivamsa Purana
Vyasa
100-300 CE
Indian, Jain
Narada Purana
Anonymous
800-1500 CE
Indian, Hindu
Blackfoot Cycles
Anonymous
1890-1918 CE
Native American, Blackfoot
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark
1953 CE
Native American
Kwakiutl Tales
Franz Boas
1910 CE
Native American, Kwakiutl
Zand-i Vohuman Yasn
Anonymous
800-1000 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
Description of Greece
Pausanias
160-180 CE
Greek
Hrómundar saga Gripssonar
Anonymous
1300-1400 CE
Germanic, Norse
Fulgentius' Mythologies
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
500-600 CE
Roman