- Origin
- Bukovina/A Gypsy Tale
- Source
- The Gypsy Fiddle: and Other Tales Told by the Gypsies
- John Hampden
- illustrated by Robin Jacques
- World Publishing Company: New York, 1969
- The Story
- A poor old man sets out to find work and bring with him a honey
cake. He sleeps in the woods and when he wakes up, there are flies all
over the cake. He kills 100 flies with one block of wood and with mud
on his finger, he writes: "I killed a hundred with a stroke." The
cowardly yellow dragon comes by and sees the words. When the old man
realizes that the dragon is more afraid of him than the other way around,
he takes good advantage of it. Tricking the dragon and his wife into
thinking him the strongest man on earth (by boasting to carry the well,
the whole forest into the dragon's den and other tricks) the old man
finally gets a huge sack of gold to support his family.
- Comments
- This yellow dragon is cowardly and not very smart. The line
illustration shows a skinny, serpent like creature with big swan wings,
four legs with claws, one sigle horn and long snout. This dragon does
blow fire and is associated with treasure/wealth.
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