Useless Factoid: my great-grandfather, Leslie Brooke, was a childrens' author and illustrator, who illustrated Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs" from which the geography and inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ignorance were derived ("The Jumblies", etc.)...
When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights;
When the angry breakers road,
As they beat on the rocky shore;
When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
Of the Hills on the Chankly Bore:
Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
There moves what seems a fiery spark,
A lonely spark with silvery rays
Piercing the coal-black night,
A meteor strange and bright:
Hither and thither the vision strays,
A single lurid light.
Slowly it wanders -- pauses -- creeps --
Anon it sparkles -- flashes and leaps;
And ever as onward it gleaming goes
A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
And those who watch at that midnight hour
From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
Cry, as the wild light passes along,
"The Dong! -- the Dong!
The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
The Dong! the Dong!
The Dong with a luminous Nose!"
Doubtless, the Dong is a fragmentary remnant of one of the perverse solar cults followed in the Kingdom of Ignorance. Now, *any* creature that goes wandering through the night with a glowing red beacon for a nose would be an Evil Demon par excellence for the Trolls of the PNW (that is, the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins grow): an aspect of the hated Burner?
PNW diet: take the afore-mentioned early pumpkins, add shrimps and watercresses; note that prawns and fish are "plentiful and cheap" (staple diet). The landscape is wild and shingly (sounds fair for a Troll Land).
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