Li Chi Slays The Serpent

LI CHI SLAYS THE SERPENT
The legend i have chosen is a Chinese legend Li Chi slays the Serpent, a supernatural tale. This legend is set in an area of China where teenage girls were yearly sacrificed to the snake god. One year Li Chi volunteered to be the sacrifice.
She went to the lair of the snake, taking some fragrant rice and a hunting dog with her, placed the rice outside the lair, then hid herself. The snake came out, the smell of the rice attracting him, so Li Chi set the dog on him. While the snake was busy defending himself, she attacked the god until it died. The snake had been no god at all, but a mere snake that devoured humans. The king of the land heard of Li Chi's courage and invited her to be his queen. There is a similar legend

In the story Li Chi slays the serpent, Li Chi is the hero, possessing all the main qualities of a brave hero, and in the legend from the Soninke of West
Africa, Mamadou is the hero, also possessing all aspects. They are both similar, in the fact that they both slayed the serpent, and saved the land, but they are both completely different at the same time. One difference is that Li
Chi was applauded and rewarded for her heroic deeds, where as Mamadou got the opposite treatment, and was seen as an anti-hero from the community, a misfortune to their worshipped lives, as they saw Bida (their serpent god) as their deity. Another aspect you can take into account, is that a different force drove them to defeat the serpent. Mamadou was driven by the fact Sia (the sacrifice for the serpent, and the wife of Mamadou) was going to be devoured like the other sacrifices before her, whereas Li Chi was doing it to save her country, so no other humans lives would have to be thrown away.
The themes and where these legends were set are both unique from