In the Bulgarian version of Saint George and the Dragon, the dragon was a "lamia". Bulgarian legends tell of how a hero (actually a double of St. George, denoted as "George of the Flowers", "Cveten Gǝorgi", ) cuts off the heads of the three- or multi-headed Lamia, and when the hero accomplishes its destruction and sever all its heads, "rivers of fertility" are said to flow. This song about St. George's fight with the lamia occurs in ritual spiritual verse supposed to be sung around St. George's day.