The stories "The Handsomest Drowned Man" and "The Very Old Man with Wings" have cognate similarities but also present differences.
In both stories and unusual creature shows up. In the two stories both men arrived by sea, and both men returned to the sea in the ending. the towns from each story came to see the strange men. Both men were different from the towns people. Also both are tall tales for children.
In the story "The Very Old Man with Wings" the townspeople called him the Angel-man. They