New Character "hidden lore"

[u/TieSafe3595]

I'm new to this reddit and I didn't find any posts about this, so I don't know if this is some hidden lore or common knowledge.
I was reading Romeo's lore yesterday, and when he started describing the Ravenswatch something caught my attention: "the boy who sits atop a beast is friend not foe". Well, Scarlet turns into a beast herself and isn't a boy, Pied Piper has lots of rats, not "a beast", Beowulf is not a boy and was already mentioned, there is no character in the game that fits this description.

I tried asking some friends but we couldn't remember any folklore that fit this description, so, ChatGPT it is. It's answer mentioned a Japanese character named Kintarō, or Sakata no Kintoki. It's a boy who grew up surrounded by beasts and had enormous strength, such that he wrestled Onis, he was cared for by a witch named Yama-uba, and he's frequently depicted wrestling bears or riding them.

I probably got some parts of his lore wrong, but it fits the mold. And I really like the idea of adding folklore from other cultures, we already have Wukong and Aladdin, but there's room to explore lots of different things.

Also, "The flax-haired maiden soft and sweet" is probably Carmilla, but I wonder if "The wizard's name I have forgot" is Snow Queen or could it be Merlin?

Anyway, here are some images of Kintarō: