- Origin
- U.S.
- Source
- The Jack Tales
- Told by R.M. Ward and his kindred in the
- Beech Mountain section of Western North
- Carolina & by other descendants of COUNCIL
- HARMON (1803-1896) elsewhere in the Southern
- Mountains; with three tales from Wise County,
- Virginia.
- Set down from these sources and edited by
- Richard Chase; illustrated by Berkely
- Williams, Jr.
- Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1971
- The Story
- The plot of this other Old Fire Dragaman is roughly the same as that
of the Haley's Jack and the Fire Dragon retelling. See
comparative note below.
- Comments
-
Comparative Note:
| Unlike Haley's
version, the
Old Fire Dragaman remains a Giant with human features and Never turns
into a Dragon. However, fire ball spitting, dwelling under ground,
being gluttonous, kidnapping maidens: the character traits of these two
monsters are almost identical. There is also no associating the fire
balls to that of the comits at the end of this
telling. |
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