Bel and the Dragon

noun

a book of the Apocrypha that is included as chapter 14 of Daniel in the Douay Bible.

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Additions to Daniel.—The “additions to Daniel” are three in number: Susannah and the Elders, Bel and the Dragon, and The Song of the Three Children.

We learn from the book of Bel and the Dragon that in Babylon was kept a great, live serpent, which the people worshipped.

Daniel, with apocryphal additions—Song of the Three Children in the Furnace, History of Susannah, Story of Bel and the Dragon.

He shall have no more to do with Bel and the Dragon.

Such a long supper! but it must end sometime!—and then prayers, and then Dorcas had amused herself with Bel and the Dragon and Tobit awhile.

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