Margaret the Dragon Slayer

In an 11th-century English life of Saint Margaret, or Marina, of Antioch, there is a moment when she gets the devil in what martial artists call a ‘submission hold’. In depictions of the scene, Margaret usually has a face of beatific calm, standing in the wreckage of the dragon’s body. The reason for the difference between the saints’ long afterlives – George still widely celebrated; Margaret languishing in relative obscurity – isn’t unconnected to the way the stories are gendered: George saves the girl using his really big sword; Margaret’s power lies in the dark interiors of the body.

Source: www.lrb.co.uk