Rudolf Erich Raspe: Gulliver revived, London 1786 (R5)

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Vulcan gave me a very concise account of Mount Etna; he said it was nothing more than an accumulation of ashes thrown from his forge; that he was frequently obliged to chastise his people, at whom, in his passion, he made it a practice to throw red-hot coals at home, which they often parried with great dexterity, and then threw them up into the world, to place them out of his reach: our quarrels, added he, last sometimes three or four months, and these appearances in the world are what I find you mortals call eruptions. Mount Vesuvius, he assured me, was another of his shops, to which he had a passage three hundred and fifty leagues, under the bed of the sea, where similar quarrels produced similar eruptions.

R5, S. 182f.

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