firedrake

Firedrake, in Teutonic mythology, is a fire-breathing reptilian creature, occasionally winged. It is much like the dragon.

In modern fantasy, "firedrake" is widely used for any fire-breathing dragon. From this usage, various other terms have been formed, such as "icedrake" for an ice-breathing dragon, and "shadowdrake" for a dragon that controls darkness.

'Firedrake', aka Firedragon is also the name given by ham radio enthusiasts to Communist Chinese electronic jamming of various out-of-country shortwave broadcasts directed to the People's Republic of China from Hainan Island and other transmitters in the PRC, usually in the form of continuously-played, traditional Chinese music. The Chinese shortwave transmitters appear to be fed the Firedrake music via a digital audio link on the Chinasat 6B satellite. A Windows Media Audio sample of the Firedrake signal is available at www.satdirectory.com. [1].

Firedrake is the name of a comic book character created by Alan Moore in the series Miracleman.

See also

• USS Firedrake (AE-14) was a ship of the United States Navy.
• Firedrake is a 2002 fantasy book by Ann Ewan.
• Firedrake is also a 1982 fantasy book by John D.Hederman.

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