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Boy and the Blacksmith,
The
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a Jack Tale story
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Sound recording, story; The Boy and the
Blacksmith, a Jack tale and wonder tale, told by Sheila Stewart,
as part of the programme Rambling House, in the Ceilidh Tent, at
the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit
Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 3rd July 1999.
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Story told by Sheila Stewart. The story begins
with 'one night, it was such a great July day and the sun was
cracking the skies'. A man comes to a blacksmith on an old horse;
he borrows a hammer from the blacksmith and batters the horse to
death. As the horse dies a fine stallion appears in its place.
Jack attempts the same with an old horse of his father's, and
kills the horse. He and his father hide the the corpse from
Jack's mother in the bog. The man on the stallion reappears, this
time with an old women. He borrows the hammer again and batters
the women to death. As she dies a beautiful women appears in her
place. Jack and his father then attempt the same with Jack's
mother, and kill her. Again they hide the corpse in the bog. Jack
leaves home. On his travels, he sees a notice advertising that
anyone who can cure the King will gain his daughter's hand in
marriage and half the kingdom. The King has a scab covering the
entire of his head. Jack places a bag of cow dung on the King's
head and tells the King to keep it there for 24 hours. When they
remove it, the scab comes with it. Just as they are about to be
married Jack is awoken by his mother.
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This story is a part-remembered wonder tale,
which has entered the traveller tradition. The missing end of the
story is resolved, by making the story into a dream.
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 18 minutes, 47 seconds
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Performing in the Rambling House programme were Nick Hennessey,
Michael Harvey, Sheila Stewart and Eddie Lenihan.
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Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty,
Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the
then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was
founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of
Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond
the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the
two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and
David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has
been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event
running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around
2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival
is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats
Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales.
Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of
Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi
Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original
Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had
been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the
Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura
Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and
David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of
summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border
in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based
artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the
plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post
(the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St
Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the
Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995
festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a
number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey,
Richard Berry and Michael Harvey.
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storytelling:-
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storyteller; singer; ballad singer: Sheila Stewart
female / Scottish / traveller
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festival programme
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Click to enlarge images
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associated:-
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storyteller: Michael Harvey
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associated:-
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storyteller: Eddie Lenihan
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associated:-
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storyteller; singer; musician: Nick Hennessey
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programming:-
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
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administration:-
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
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storytelling:-
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Ceilidh Tent
03 Jul 1999
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Rambling House
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gift from:-
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St Donats Arts Centre
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007