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The Vouivre: The Flying Serpent
Origin
France
Source
The Drac: French Tales of Dragons and Demons
By Felice Holman and Nanine Valen
Drawings by Stephen Walker
Scribner's Sons: New York, 1975
The Story
Once a year, the serpent Vouivre leaves her guarded treasure to drink and wash herself. The door to the treasure cave then opens up. Anyone who dare venture can bring out anything, IF the serpent does not kill him in the chase. On one of these nights, Louise brings her little son up to the cave after the sign from a dream. Louise is discovered by the serpent and separated from her son -- for an entire year. Her son is in the cave, just a door away from Louise. In the end, she rescues her son and they bring home a big goldpiece. The fate of the Vouivre is unclear. One story tells of her being burned, the other tells of her escape from the magic power she possesses.
Comments
The Vouivre is an enormous female beast with shining green scales which gives off a low and strange musical sound as she flies. She wears a crown of pearls and a gold circlet on her tail which also ring. But most strange of all is her dragon's head with its one great and glowing ruby eye. This luminouse orb she removes when she bathes, making herself blind for just those minutes.
The Vouivre dwells in a cave and can breathe fire. It guards the treasure and devours people who come to stealth the treasure.
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每年一度,巨蛇Vouivre都會離開她看守的財寶去喝水、洗澡。這時,任何人,只要他夠膽子,都可以通過敞開的大門進到洞穴裡拿走任何想要的財寶——當然,他還得逃得足夠快。故事就發生在這樣的一個夜晚,路易斯(Louise)根據夢中的啟示帶着她的小兒子來到了Vouivre的洞穴。然而很不幸,路易斯被Vouivre發現了,洞門關起來,路易斯逃了出來但她的小兒子卻被關在了山洞裡,整整一年。最後,她救出了自己的兒子並且帶回一塊巨大的金磚。Vouivred的命運不明,故事的一個版本說她被燒死,其他版本(求翻譯:her escape from the magic power she possesses.)
評論:
Vouivre是一隻巨大的雌性生物,蝙蝠一樣的翅膀,蛇一樣的尾巴。光亮的綠色鱗片令她在飛行時發出低沉而陌生的樂音。平時居住在山洞中看守着財寶。會噴吐火焰。她頭上戴着珍珠王冠,尾巴上套着金子做的圓環。兩眼之間有一顆鑽石或紅寶石,她依靠這顆寶石才能看見東西。洗澡時她會把寶石摘下來,這段時間裡她是盲的。
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