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One of the greatest legends of world folklore was born from these [railroad] workers and their enormous task; John Henry "The Steel Driving Man". The John Henry of legend is more myth than man; a tragic,

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One of the greatest legends of world folklore was born from these [railroad] workers and their enormous task; John Henry "The Steel Driving Man". The John Henry of legend is more myth than man; a tragic, larger than life hero involved in an epic battle between man and machine, which was immortalized in a popular folk song the "BALLAD OF JOHN HENRY". The song sings of a little boy, born with a fateful vision of a "hammer in his hand", who as a steel driver during the construction of the Great Bend Tunnel on the C. & O. railroad at Talcott, West Virginia takes a hammer in each hand crying "A man ain't nothing but a man", as he faces down a giant steam powered drilling machine with the promise "If I can't beat this steam drill down I'll die with this hammer in my hand!" —“John Henry,” National Park Service Which elements of a folktale are shown in the description of John Henry? Check all that apply. a character with extraordinary abilities a single, identifiable author originally written down in a book created by a group of people based on the real lives of normal people