Given that post #1041620 later in this series also has a Hogan reference, the evidence is mounting that's who the woodsman's supposed to be... brother.
Isn't the Golden Axe a Japanese folk tale, not one of Aesop's tales?
Also isn't that Hulk Hogan?
It's actually both, it's one of a small number that occur in more or less the same version in both cultures. The one about the mouse who is trying to marry is another.
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