English people-rock band Steeleye Span has a recording of the traditional ballad King Henry, in which the king and his court, out on a hunt, are assailed by a dread Grendel's Mother kind of monster, who requires initially food stuff, then drink, then the sexual expert services of the King. First is Sadie Hawkins. A homely spinster at 35, she has a rich father who invented "Sadie Hawkins Day", on which women could propose to adult men.