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Monkey Misery
Monkey Trouble

Sound recording, story; Monkey Misery a folk tale from Haiti told by Ben Haggarty, in a studio and home recording made by Ben Haggarty, in London March 1986, for an unidentified purpose.

Story told by Ben Haggarty. A story about monkey who tastes something delicious, which he believes is something called 'misery', but is in fact honey. Monkey goes on the search for more misery, a search which finally takes him to Papa God. Papa God gives Monkey a sack with a dog in.

Ben Haggarty originally took this story from Diane Wolkstein's book The Magic Organge Tree, in which monkey looks for misery. He later heard the story from Rita Ademokum as part of a story collection project run by the West London Storytelling Unit in the 1980s. Rita referred to monkey searching for trouble and in later tellings of the story by Ben, monkey searches for trouble, rather than misery.

    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 8 minutes, 23 seconds

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

origin:- Haiti, Grenada, Caribbean


storytelling:- London, England
May 1986
studio recording
home recording


gift from:- storyteller: Ben Haggarty


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