There are lots of top ten lists about weird historical footnotes, people, events, etc but after reading about guys like Big Nose George and events like the Boston mollasses disaster, I was sort of left wondering if there are equivalent stories for non-white cultures.
Not scary stories, not cult legends, not old wives' tales, but just odd little off-the-wall funny stories from Native cultures, African cultures, Asian cultures, etc. Is there a historical reason these are difficult to track down, or is it mostly due to just lack of reporting from major websites where you'd find these sorts of articles?
One reason could be the lack of source material translation.
Just for example, I present you with a paragraph from The Record of the Unification of the Imperial Lê, a written account of Vietnamese 18th century. In a soldier's mutiny in 1782, the rebel troops attacked the mansion of Duke Huy, an renown warrior and experienced general.
"Duke Huy held the royal blade, mounted his war elephant, rode to the yard, he pointed at the soldiers and yell:
"O soliders! Return to your post or I will cut your head off!"
The soldiers were afraid of duke Huy, and the fear multiplied when they saw him on an elephant. They stand down, dare not speak or charge.
But after a while, they all stood up and attacked the elephant. The elephant swinged its massive head to tackle, made them ran around to avoid its tusks. The soldier swing their weapons in chaotic, some picked up rock and pebble here and there to throw. The elephant coiled its trunk, growl but dare not tackle again. Duke Huy drew his bow to shoot, unfortunately, the the bow string snap. He grap his arquebus to load, unfortunately, the prime did not burn. He launched javelin from the elephant and wounded a few people. Then they pulled his neck down with hooked spear and beat him to death."
In the end, didn't seem like he was able to kill anyone, but hey, he must have looked quite badass for a while.