"What kind of blood was that, incidentally?" asked Dumbledore loudly over the chiming of the newly unsmashed grandfather clock."On the walls? Dragon," shouted the wizard called Horace as, with a deafening grinding and tinkling, the chandelier screwed itself back into the ceiling.
There was a final plunk from the piano, and silence.
"Yes, dragon," repeated the wizard conversationally. "My last bottle, and prices are sky-high at the moment. Still, it might be reusable." (J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 66)
Upon reading the above quote I had a suspicion that Harry Potter isn't the only story that refers to dragons' blood. As it turns out, dragons' blood was believed to have many special qualities far before our society began. Some myths tell the story of it being used as a means of medicine and others as a poison. These claims do vary, according to various wiki entries though, the idea of dragons' blood being used in mythology still remains.
(Picture taken from: http://masterbraeokk.tripod.com/Dragons.html)
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