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dlee10
Registered User
(3/31/06 6:45 pm)
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Re: Death and the Redheaded Woman
Did anyone mention "Solgier Jack" or the "Man Who Caught Death in a Sack"? I like this one because it illustrates how important death is. Who would Really want to live forever?
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LadyErmine
Unregistered User
(4/1/06 2:30 am)
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Death
There is the story in The Canterbury Tales where three men go looking for death in a time of plague so they can kill him. They are directed - by an old man who tells them he is longing to die, beating on the earth crying "dear mother, let me in" but cannot - but could be Death himself to a heap of gold under a tree. Inevitably they kill each other in a struggle for the gold, so at the end they have found death, and he has overcome them...
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evil little pixie
Registered User
(4/1/06 10:23 am)
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Re: Death
Oooh, though of another one! There's a folk tale from Puerto Rico
(though numerous websites say it's from Portugal, so who knows)
in which a woman known as Tia Miseria (Aunt Misery) traps Death
in her pear tree and won't let him down until he promises never
to come back for her, and the last line is something like "And
people say that as long as Death keeps his promise, there will be
misery in the world." The English version I'm most familiar
with can be found in _From Sea to Shining Sea," edited by Amy
Cohn. Here's a Spanish version, slightly different: www.relatocorto.com/clasicos/elperal.htm
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EKathy
Registered User
(4/1/06 7:49 pm)
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Re: Death and the Redheaded Woman
Dlee10 - you beat me too it.
That was the first story to pop into my head too whenI read this post.
If anyone wants to watch a very good DVD of it, it is in the StoryTeller series by Jim Henson, titled The Soldier and Death. It is my favorite one in the series.
Kathy
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Northerner4me
Registered User
(4/2/06 8:15 am)
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Re: Death and
the Redheaded Woman
Scottish traveller storyteller Stanley Robertson has a story called the "Angel of Death". Likewise Scottish traveller Duncan Williamson tells a story called "Death in a nut". "Death in a nut" is available online being told by Jess Smith (yet another Scottish traveller storyteller).
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Northerner4me
Registered User
(4/2/06 8:24 am)
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Re: Death and
the Redheaded Woman
Here's the story that Stanley tells. I've heard him tell it at a festival.
www.electricscotland.com/..._death.htm
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mmcphie
Unregistered User
(4/5/06 8:16 pm)
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Death
What about Somerset Maughan's "Appointment in Samara"? Or "The Bedouin's Gazelle" (in Jane Yolen's folktale anthology)?
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