The Boa Boy

Once, a hunter was in the jungle when he met a strange and beautiful woman and, seduced by her beauty, he let her embrace him.
But then the woman turned herself into a boa constrictor and, wrapping itself around him, the creature tried to crush him.
Fortunately, the man was able to reach his spear and he drove it deep into the monster.
Then, when he cut open the creature, to his amazement, he found a baby boy inside that was still alive.
Taking the child home with him, he and his wife raised the boy as their son.
And when he grew up the boy became a great wrestler because of his remarkable ability to squeeze people just like the strange snake from the belly of which he had emmerged.
Men from villages all over came to wrestle against him but none could ever defeat him.
One day, however, a talking bird appeared in his village that asked to speak with the boy.
"Word of your great prowess as a wrestler has reached the ears of the king who lives at the top of the mountain", it said, "He who makes the thunder with his drums and the lightning with his spears and he invites you to come and fight his three champions. If you win, you may marry his daughter and become prince of the mountain".
The boy wasn't sure if he could fight against the mountain kings champions because he was sure they must be magical but the chance of becoming a prince was too great an honour to refuse, especially for a boy who came from a little village and so he accepted the kings invitation and, following the talking bird, climbed up the mountain.
When he reached the top of the mountain, however, and was presented to the king and his daughter he saw the three champions he was to face and began to have second thoughts.
One was a porcupine man covered in long, sharp quills; one was a rhino man with a long, curved horn growing from his nose and the third was a gorilla man who was twice the boys size.
But then he looked at the kings daughter, her hair dark as ebony, her eyes sparkling like stars in the night sky and he was so dazzled by her beauty that he fell in love and felt he had to marry her or die trying.
So then, bowing to the king and his daughter, he prepared to fight the first of the three champions, the porcupine man.
"But how am I to wrestle a man who is covered all over in spikes", he wondered.
Just then, however, he remembered a trick the people in his village used to cook porcupine and, as the porcupine man came towards him, he pushed him backwards so that he fell upon his back then, pinning him down, he rolled the porcupine mans back in the muddy ground.
The porcupine man was not easily held down ofcourse; he was a fierce and strong wrestler and soon had the boy upon his back but that was just what the boy wanted for, as the porcupine man was holding him pinned down, the mud that covered his quills was baked hard in the sun and then, reaching around and grabbing hold of the edge of the hard baked mud, the boy tore it away, pulling out the porcupine mans quills with it.
After he had lost his quills, the porcupine man was no challenge for the boy and he defeated him easily.
But then he prepared himself to face the kings second champion; the rhinoman and, just like a rhino, the rhinoman came charging towards him and when he did, he hurled the boy high in the air and he came down upon his head so hard that he was almost knocked out.
Fortunately, although dazed, the boy managed to struggle back onto his feet and, as he did, he noticed the edge of the mountain top that they were standing on behind him and so this time when the rhinoman charged into him, the boy moved out of the way and the rhinoman, because he couldn't stop, went crashing over the edge of the mountaintop.
He didn't fall to his death however because, luckilly, the boy managed to reach out and grab him by his rhino horn but then he told the rhinoman that he would only pull him back up if he submitted and, because he was afraid of heights, the rhinoman agreed.
But there was still one more champion to face, the giant gorillaman and, as he watched him rear up onto his hind legs and beat his chest with his enormous fists, the boy knew that he would be the hardest of the three to beat.
"His arms are so large that they could easily tear a man in two", he thought, "And his fists so big that they could probably knock a mans head from his shoulders".
But as he was looking at the gorillaman he also noted that the creature always walked upon his fists and that gave the boy an idea.
Going over to a tree that was growing nearby, he made a deep hole in its trunk so that it spilled out its treesap upon the ground infront of the gorillaman.
And when the Gorillaman came towards him, because he walked upon his fists, he stepped in the treesap with them.
But as the treesap hardened in the sun, the gorillamans fists got stuck to the ground until, though he struggled with all his gorilla might, he couldn't move them.
And when the boy saw that the gorillamans fists were stuck fast, he grabbed hold of the gorillamans  legs and flipped him over onto his back then, getting ontop of him, pinned him down.
All round the mountaintop arena, the crowd, made up of animals and birds, roared, howled and squawked with excitement as they saw the boy defeat the kings third and final champion.
Then, that night, beneath the stars, infront of the people of his tribe, the king and his courtiers; the boy married the kings daughter, becoming prince of the mountain and, bearing many brave sons and beautiful daughters, they lived happily ever after.