We closed the telling, but not the evening, with Sandy MacNeil’s Dog from the book Gaelic Ghosts by Sorche Nic Leodhas, told by Eve Burton. He added that one of his children illustrated the story.
Tim Livengood lightened the mood with a whimsical tale about flowers with thorns, a horse with a thorn, and a witch. As she said to me, it’s not the sort of tale one can tell to a “family” audience. If you know of a great venue for her to repeat her telling, she’d love to know.
Special kudos for the evening go to Elsa Sellmeyer, a new Voices In The Glen teller, who gave us all the shivers with Edgar Allen Poe’s The Telltale Heart. About the latter story, Anne said she first heard it as a teenager, and it’s been scaring her ever since. Briggs says she collected it from Tongue in 1963 who heard it from “Annie’s grannie” in 1910. The former is from Folktales of England, edited by Katherine Briggs and Ruth L. Jonathan Metcalf-Burton told Andrew Coffee from the book Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs.Īnne Sheldon gave us Tibbs Cat and the Apple-Tree Man and The Golden Arm. We gathered at the home of Eve Burton and Roger Metcalf in Gaithersburg MD, on Saturday, October 29, 2016, for an evening of Dark Tales for the Dark Moon.īill Mayhew started the telling with a joke, a jump and How I Spent My Summer Vacation, a tale about the notorious Elisabeth Bathory (1560-1614), about whom Wikipedia says, “ She has been labeled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer, though the precise number of her victims is debated.”īill was followed by Margaret Chatham with a telling of The Boy Who Drew Cats, a Japanese folktale translated by Lafcadio Hearn.
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