Stan Bolovan

Stan Bolovan is a Romanian fairy tale collected in Rumänische Märchen by Mite Kremnitz (1882).

Stan visited a wise man and begged him for children, and ignored his warnings about feeding them all.

He met up with the dragon and said he ate rocks by night and flowers by day and would fight.

The mother set them two trials: her son threw a staff as far as he could, and then it was Stan's turn.

Terrified, the dragon dropped the gold and ran away, leaving Stan and his family to prosper with it.