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Thorn in the King's Foot,
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| Sound recording, story; The Thorn in the King's Foot, a wonder tale from the Scottish traveller tradition, told by Duncan Williamson at a storytelling club run by Jenny Pearson at Watermans Arts Centre, London, 18th October 1986. | |
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| Introduction to story by Duncan Williamson, including comment on his book The Thorn in the King's Foot, published by Penguin, and his policy of not telling a story once it has been published, followed by story told by Dunacn Williamson. When a King's, wife gives birth to a hunch-backed son, the King sends one of his men into the woods with the baby to kill it. The baby is taken in and raised by an elderly women with a deformed face. The Queen dies, and the King's treatment of his people worsens. One day the King is cursed by the old women, and gets a thorn stuck in his foot, which no-one can remove. The thorn disables the King and eventually begins to sprout. The hunch-backed son grows up and discovers that if a King would touch the face of his adoptive mother's face, she will be cured. His adpotive mother tells him the story of his birth and the son vows to find his father. The hunch-backed son travels to the King, and agrees to removes the thorn in the King's foot in return for him curing his mother. He also demands that his father goes out amongst his people while he rules the kingdom in his place. The King discovers the suffering of his people, and returns to rule fairly. The King invites his son to rule in his place. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 28 minutes, 43 seconds |
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| Storytelling clubs operate in a variety of formats. Some clubs provide a place where anyone can come and tell stories to a small intimate and specialist audience ('floor-spots'); while other clubs run a programme of performances by professional or semi-professional storytellers, and many clubs do a combination of both. In 2007 the UK had in the region of 55 storytelling clubs: the larger, more prominent clubs provide a low key, small-scale circuit for storytelling, for a specialist-interest audience. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; singer; ballad singer: Duncan Williamson male / Scottish / traveller |
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| origin:- |
Scotland
traveller |
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| administration & programming:- |
administrator; programmer: Jenny Pearson administrator; programmer: The Crick Crack Club administrator; programmer: Ben Haggarty |
| storytelling:- |
London, England: Watermans Arts Centre
19 Oct 1986 storytelling club |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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