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Sound recording, story; a wonder tale of Welsh origin told by Hugh Lupton, and recorded in a studio for a website project entitled A Web of Tales, 1999.

Story told by Hugh Lupton. A young man uses perfectly baked bread to win the hand in marriage of a beautiful women who rises out of the river. Her father agrees to the match, but warns him that should he strike his wife without reason on three occasions, she will return to the river. The women emerges from the river and brings with her a beautiful herd of cattle and oxen. The marriage is a happy one, but on three occasions the young man strikes his wife - when she laughs at a christening, cries at a wedding and laughs at a funeral. She returns to the river, takingthe cattle with. Her sons meet her in secret and learn from her a knowledge of healing, and become physicians, but her husband never sees her again.

The web site project and the associated website no-longer exists. This was a relatively early story website project which ran under the domain name www.webtales.com. It invited interaction and reponse to stories and offered downloadable stories.

    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 15 minutes, 48 seconds

storytelling:- storyteller: Hugh Lupton
male / British / English / Welsh

origin:- Wales


use:-
1999
website project: A Web of Tales


gift from:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty


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