Poor Murdered Woman - Jackie Oates
On Christmas Day It Happened So - Waterson Carthy ( Tim Van Eyken )
On Christmas Day It Happened So - Waterson Carthy ( Tim Van Eyken )
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Chris Wood - Albion
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Not nearly as disturbing as the Grimms' 'fairy tales' - rape, torture, mutilation etc.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostComment
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They are folk tales rather than fairy tales, aren't they? I agree they're very sinister.Originally posted by Flosshilde View PostComment
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I suspect because they were, almost without exception, an unmitigated shower. For example, as mentioned above, there was the Lord in Matty Groves. Then there was the aristocrat who "told the tale" on Sir Patrick Spens, who was never a sailor.Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
The Scottish borders are the source of a number of ballads/folk songs, many collected by Scott. The ballad of Lord Soulis - another Fine Example of our aristocracy - tells how he was eventually boiled to death in a cauldron of molten lead in Hermitage Castle. "Tam Lin" is another interesting tale of the aristocracy. Even higher up the social ladder, The "Ballad of Johnny Armstrang" tells us exactly why the psalmist was correct in warning us to "put not our trust in princes", or indeed kings.
Lastly, as a chilling tale of what lies beyond the grave, "The Lyke-Wake Dirge" must surely be hard to beat.Comment
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'twas ever thus...Originally posted by mangerton View Post
I not infrequently drive into the borders, often arriving after midnight and after a long journey - a favourite, whilst the family are sleeping, is June Tabor's album of border ballad based songs "An Echo of Hooves"Originally posted by mangerton View Post
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I'd agree, but they're usually called 'Grimms' Fairy Tales' & published in very sanitised versions for children.Originally posted by Mary Chambers View PostComment
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Definitely - and almost any song including a mermaid doesn't end well.Originally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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Some nasty villains in there - this one's not nice at all, though (spoiler alert) the baddy gets her comeuppance in the end.
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Willie's Lady
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'Child Owlet' from (spoiler alert) BBC Radio 2 folk awards duo of the year, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman.
Not that I often listen to award shows but very enjoyable programme tonight from the Albert Hall on R2.Comment
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Indeed JC - and probably worth a thread of its own, as there was little of a disturbing nature about it...Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post'Child Owlet' from (spoiler alert) BBC Radio 2 folk awards duo of the year, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman.
Not that I often listen to award shows but very enjoyable programme tonight from the Albert Hall on R2.Comment
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The June Tabor has a good booklet on free download.
Different version of Sir Patrick Spens. Anyone know the tune?Comment
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I grew up with an inherited 1920s edn. illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell (even so some are still pretty disturbing). In recent years I picked up a 1905 reprint of the first English edition - 55 tales which were published in 2 vols in 1823 and 1826 (with illustrations by George Cruikshank) as "Popular stories collected by the Brothers Grimm" - and pretty visceral some of them are too. Even a sanitised version of The Goose Girl, to pick but one, can't get round a talking horse having its head cut off, even if you leave out the false maid being put in a barrel knocked through with nails and rolled through the streetsOriginally posted by Flosshilde View Post
In the same shop (an antiquarian bookshop in Long Melford, Lovejoy country 
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