Andrómeda by Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante ( 1633-1670 ), depicting princess Andromeda of Greek mythology chained to a rock as a sacrifice to the dragonlike sea monster Cetus In Jay Williams's tale The Practical Princess, a dragon demands that a king should sacrifice his daughter to him so that he will leave the rest of the kingdom alone. But the princess saves herself by making a "princess dummy" out of straw, and filling it with boiling pitch and tar. The princess dresses the  dummy in one of her own gowns, then goes to the dragon's cave where she offers herself as a sacrifice. The unwitting dragon swallows the straw dummy whole, and the pitch and tar explodes inside the dragon's stomach, killing him. Afterwards, the princess observes, "Dragons are not very smart." In the Isaac Asimov short story Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon, it is revealed that Dragons used to be slain as part of a passage from princehood to adulthood, though after a while, they became a protected species. Contrary to popular myth, they do not eat princesses as they tend to smell of cheap perfume and give indigestion . In the few stories, a princess can be rescued by an anthropomorphic animal as well. For instance, in Kate DiCamillo's book The Tale of Despereaux, a mouse named Despereaux Tilling sets out on the quest to rescue Princess Pea from a group of rats led by Chiaroscuro. And in the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic, the high-speed blue hedgehog, has to save Princess Elise multiple times from mad scientist Doctor Eggman, who attempts to release the sun god's raw power from within the princess, and help free her from heavy burden .
Andrómeda by Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante ( 1633–1670 ), depicting Princess Andromeda of Greek mythology chained to a rock as a sacrifice to the dragonlike sea monster Cetus In Jay Williams's tale The Practical Princess, a dragon demands that a king should sacrifice his daughter to him so that he will leave the rest of the kingdom alone. But the princess saves herself by making a "princess dummy" out of straw, and filling it with boiling pitch and tar. The princess dresses the straw dummy in one of her own gowns, then goes to the dragon's cave where she offers herself as a sacrifice. The unwitting dragon swallows the dummy whole, and the pitch and tar explodes inside the dragon's stomach, killing him. Afterwards, the princess observes, "Dragons are not very smart." In the Isaac Asimov short story Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon, it is revealed that Dragons used to be slain as part of a passage from princehood to adulthood, though after a while, they became a protected species. Contrary to popular myth, they do not eat princesses as they tend to smell of cheap perfume and give indigestion .
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In the few stories, a princess can be rescued by an anthropomorphic animal as well. For instance, in Kate DiCamillo's book The Tale of Despereaux, a mouse named Despereaux Tilling sets out on the quest to rescue Princess Pea from a group of rats led by Chiaroscuro. And in the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic, the high-speed blue hedgehog, has to save Princess Elise multiple times from mad scientist Doctor Eggman, who attempts to release the sun god's raw power from within the princess, and help free her from heavy burden