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Devil's Catechism, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Devil's Catechsim, an East European Jack tale, outwitting the devil story, riddling tale and participatory story, told by Ben Haggarty at Tales from the Mariners Storytelling Club, in Gillingham, Kent, 15th of December 2005. | |
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| Introduction by Tony Edwards to Ben Haggarty, followed by story told Ben Haggarty. A story about Jack the Widow's son, who seeks his fortune following the advice given by his mother on her death bed, 'do as you would done by'; the advice of a beggar, and the advice of the devil. This leads Jack to find a wife. The devil then offers Jack and his wife a flock of sheep on the understanding that, in a years time, he will appear at their door and ask them 12 questions which they must answer in order to keep the sheep and enjoy years of happiness. The questions take the form of riddles and follow a pattern of 'What is your one?', 'What is your two?' and so on. The riddles are answered with suggestions from the audience. | |
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| This is Ben Haggarty's first public telling of this story. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 22 minutes, 33 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: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
Master of Ceremonies; storytelling club administrator: Tony
Edwards male / British |
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| origin:- | Europe, East |
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administrator; programmer: Tony Edwards |
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Lower Rainham Road, 305, Gillingham, Kent, England: The Three
Mariners
15 Dec 2005 storytelling club: Tales from the Mariners Storytelling Club |
| performance recording from:- |
archivist: Kate Norgate |
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