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Golden Haired Twins, The

Sound recording, story; The Golden Haired Twins, an East European wonder tale, told by Ben Haggarty, at the Living Crafts exhibition, at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, 7th May 2006

Introduction by Ben Haggarty, including audience suggestions about what to include in a story, followed by story told by Ben Haggarty. A story of a young King who marries an ordinary girl instead of a princess, to the disgust of his mother. When the King is away at war, the new Queen gives birth to two twin boys with golden hair, which the King's mother takes away and buries alive; replacing them with two puppies. The Queen is banished to a dungeon, but where the boys are buried two trees grow. The boys are then transformed from trees, into a wooden bed, into fire, into two lambs, and then back into two newborn boys which are found by a woodsman. The woodsman brings up the two boys, who then travel to the castle of their father, where they tell the true story of what occured.

The story contains motifs from both the Juniper Tree and the Handless Maiden story groups.

audience:- family
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 24 minutes, 23 seconds

storytelling:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958

origin:- Europe, East


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Ben Haggarty's Hatfield House participant pass

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storytelling:- Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England: Hatfield House
07 May 2006
public performance: Living Crafts Exhibition


performance recording from:- archivist: Kate Norgate


©  The London Centre for International Storytelling: 2007
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