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Juniper Tree, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Juniper Tree, an Indo-European wonder tale and transformation tale, collected by The Brothers Grimm, told by Ben Haggarty, at the fifteenth Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at an unidentified venue, London, 1984 | |
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| Story told by Ben Haggarty. A mother kills her step-son and arranges it so that her daughter thinks that she has killed him. The mother makes soup from the boy's body and feeds it to his father, her husband. The daughter buries the bones of her step-brother under the Juniper tree and from those bones appears a bird, who sings the song of the story to the goldsmith, the cobbler and workers at the old mill. The bird collects as payment, a gold necklace, a pair of red shoes and a mill-stone. The bird returns to the home and begins to sing. It gives the father a gold necklace, the step-sister the red shoes, and the step-mother the mill-stone, which, the bird drops on her and kills her. The Juniper tree then bursts into flames and splits, and out walks the boy. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 29 seconds |
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| The West London Storytelling Unit Clubnights or The Storytelling Unit Clubnights were begun by Ben Haggarty, TUUP and Daisy Keable in 1982 shortly after beginning to work together as the West London Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U). They took place on roughly a fortnightly basis during the atumn and winter months, in community centres in Acton, Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith. The clubnights were an opportunity for anyone to come and tell a story, or perform music on the condition that it had a toe-hold in tradition. The performance of original poetry and the reading of original writing was actively discouraged as there were plenty of other fora for 'new writing' elsewhere in London. In 2007 Ben Haggarty explained that the clubnight format was in part inspired by the College of Storytellers, but with the aim of doing something less bourgeois, for a younger audience and which was not dominated by Idries Shah's mission to promote his vision of Sufi storytelling. The clubnights also took inspiration from the anarchy of the London Musicians Collective clubnight events in Camden. The clubnights led Ben Haggarty to inaugurate the First UK International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre in London in January 1985. After the 1985 festival a few further clubnights were run, before ending in 1986. The clubnights were superseded by the formation of the Company of Storytellers who pioneered the touring of adult evening shows throughout the UK, and by the formation of the Crick Crack Club in 1987, which focused on the programming and development of professional storytellers, their performance skills and their repertoire for adult audiences. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- |
folklorist: The Brothers Grimm
folklorist: Jakob Grimm folklorist: Wilhelm Grimm Europe Indo-European |
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
| storytelling:- |
London, England
1984 storytelling club: Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: Clubnight 15 |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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