Long before anyone dug into it and found the passage grave inside, the great mound at La Hougue Bie needed an explanation. The one Jersey settled on was a dragon.
In the version given by Visit Jersey, and retold in Erren Michaels' Jersey Legends as 'the Hougue Bie Dragon', a fearsome dragon was terrorising the island. The Seigneur de Hambye, a lord from Normandy, came across to deal with it, and he fought and killed it. But his squire was envious. When the fight was over he murdered his master and went home with a false account of what had happened, taking the glory for himself.
The lie did not hold, at least in the later retellings. In those, the squire gave himself away by talking in his sleep, confessing the murder to the lord's widow, and he was tried and executed. A mound was raised over or in memory of the dead lord, and the name Hougue Bie is explained as Hougue Hambye, the mound of Hambye.
The link between the site's name and the lords of Hambye in the Cotentin is noted by Wikipedia, and the story is a well-worn international type: the dragon slayer robbed of credit by a treacherous companion. It is also plainly an origin story written backwards from the monument. The mound is Neolithic, the chapel on top is medieval, and in 1792 Philippe d'Auvergne began a tower up there, the so-called Prince's Tower, demolished in 1924. None of that has stopped the dragon. It remains the best-known story told at the site, which is now a Jersey Heritage museum.
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