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| a Baba Yaga story | |
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| Sound recording, story; a Russian wonder tale and Baba Yaga story, told by Ben Haggarty in An Evening of Eastern European Tales, at the Springfield Theatre, Springfield Park Tavern, London, 15th March 1990. | |
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| A story told by Ben Haggarty. A witch befriends a Queen and makes her promise that she will ask her son to only marry the women whose finger fits a ring which she gives him. When the Queen dies, her son vows to keep the promise, but finds that only his own sister's finger fits the ring. The brother insists that his sister marry him. The sister takes the advice of three beggar women, and makes straw dolls, which prevent her brother from entering her room and open up the earth to swallow her inside. The sister finds herself in Baba Yaga's house, where she befriends Baba Yaga's daughter. The sister and Baba Yaga's daughter escape from Baba Yaga and return to the world above, where the look exactly alike. The brother tricks them into revealing which of them is his sister, but on finding that the ring also fits the finger of Baba Yaga's daughter, he marries her instead. | |
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| The story is followed by an improvisation about the wedding and Ben Haggarty's journey from the wedding in the story, to the venue in which he is telling stories. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 22 minutes, 19 seconds |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- | Russia |
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Bounds Green Road, London, England: Springfield Park Tavern:
Springfield Theatre
15 Mar 1990 public performance: An Evening of Eastern European Tales |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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