Long ago in a faraway land of Lycea in Asia there lived a fierce monster called the Chimera. It breathed fire and smoke from his huge nostrils and devoured anyone who dared to come near it - sheep, cattle, men, women, children, and even wild beasts. People were afraid to come out of there houses and their King Isobates could neither
eat nor rest for worrying how to rid his land of the evil
monster. For what man would be so
brave to undertake so dread a task? The monster had no fewer than
three heads, a goat's, a lion's and a serpent's, and from its three
heads there gushed forth long tongues of flames that
burnt the countryside and spread destruction far and
wide. The Chimera's body was like that of a dragon and its tail like that of a boa
constrictor.
At that time a brave and noble young
knight, Bellerphon by name, chanced to be visiting the King of that
land. It was Bellerphon's fondest dream to do some brave and valiant deed, so when the
king proposed that he should go out and test his strength against the
chimera he was only too eager to prepare himself for this mighty task.
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