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Lindworm, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Lindworm, a wonder tale and birth tale from Sweden, told by Hugh Lupton as part of a private performance by The Company of Storytellers at Bundles Barn, Hertfordshire, on an unidentified date during the 1990s. | |
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| Music played by The Company of Storytellers, followed by story told by Hugh Lupton. A King and Queen are childless. The Queen asks the advice of a henwife, who tells her to bathe in spring water and then peel and eat the two fruits she finds in the room, and that she will have 2 golden haired twins. She does so, but forgets to peel 7 layers of skin from one of the fruits before eating it, as instructed. When she gives birth she first gives birth to a worm, which the midwife throws out of the window. Then she gives birth to a golden haired baby boy. The midwife is sworn to silence. The son comes of age and goes to seek a wife, but meets a huge worm, the eldest son, who claims a right to the first bride. The King and Queen organise a wedding, but the worm devours his wife. This occurs again, so the King and Queen decide to find him a women who 'does not matter'. They find a shepherd's daughter, who goes to the henwife for advice. The shepherd's daughter asks for 7 blouses in her trouso, and a bucket of lime, scrubbing brushes and a bath of milk in the bridal suite. After the wedding the shepherd's daughter takes off her 7 blouses one by one, and at the same time asks the worm to take off his skins one by one. When they are both naked, she scrubs the naked worm with lime until she reveals a man and then bathes him in milk. The next morning the King and Queen find their first son in the arms of the shepherd's daughter and younger son is then free to find himself a bride. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair; poor |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 14 minutes, 10 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at this time comprised Ben Haggarty, Sally Pomme Clayton and Hugh Lupton. | |
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| The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| origin:- | Sweden |
| storytelling:- |
Hertfordshire, England: Bundles Barn
about 1990s private performance |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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