Tales From The Land of Hope & Glory
The wonder of storytelling is in the ritual. We have been sharing our stories, adult and child, for millennia. Before the advent of pen and parchment people relied on stories being passed through the generations as both history and as caution or adventure or excitement. Stories were and remain an essential element in the cultural and spiritual life of communities the world over.
Listening to a story is like going on a journey. Only you can see the pictures in your mind. Only you can conjure the demons and the dragons and the heroes with such vivacity. As we travel through our story landscapes we are marked with wisdom and imagination. These are just some of the ingredients that make the wonder of storytelling.
This book covers the English tradition in folk and fairy tale, in fable and saga. In compiling this collection from just a few of our forebears, I have been very warmly surprised at the breadth of subject matter. I’ve also come across stories that I had never read before, so the journey has been a delight.
Once again, I hope that you are as delighted with these wonderful tales as I have been in putting these two volumes together.
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PREFACE
A PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL HISTORY OF THOMAS HICKATHRIFT
A SON OF ADAM
AMYS AND AMYLE
BINNORIE
CAP O’ RUSHES
CATSKIN
COAT O’ CLAY
EARL MAR’S DAUGHTER
GOBBORN SEER
GUY OF WARWICK
HAVELOCK AND GOLDBOROUGH
HENNY-PENNY
HEREWARD THE WAKE
HOW THE COBBLER CHEATED THE DEVIL
I WON’T
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
JACK THE GIANT-KILLER
JOHNNY REED’S CAT
KATE CRACKERNUTS
KING HORN
KNAVE AND FOOL
LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR
MASTER OF ALL MASTERS
MR FOX
MR. MIACCA
MURDOCH’S RATH
NELLY THE KNOCKER
NIX NAUGHT NOTHING
RUSHEN COATIE
SILKY
SIR GAMMER VANS
ST HERBERT, THE HERMIT OF DERWENTWATER
TAMLANE
TEENY-TINY
THE BAKER’S DAUGHTER
THE BLINDED GIANT
THE BROWN MAN OF THE MOORS
THE COMPASSION OF CONSTANTINE
THE FAIRIES’ CUP
THE FIDDLER IN THE FAIRY RING
THE FISH AND THE RING
THE GOLDEN ARM
THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX
THE HILLMAN AND THE HOUSEWIFE
THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON
THE KING O’ THE CATS
THE LAIDLY WORM
THE LAIRD AND THE MAN OF PEACE
THE LITTLE BULL-CALF
THE LOVER’S VOWS
THE MAGICIAN TURNED MISCHIEF-MAKER
THE MAGPIE’S NEST
THE MASTER AND HIS PUPIL
THE NIX IN MISCHIEF
THE OLD WITCH
THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG
THE PEDLAR OF SWAFFHAM
THE ROSE TREE
THE STARS IN THE SKY
THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS
THE STRANGE VISITOR
THE TAVISTOCK WITCH
THE THREE FEATHERS
THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL
THE THREE SILLIES
THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB
THE WEE, WEE MANNIE
THE WHITE LADY
THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM
THE YORKSHIRE BOGGART
TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE
TOM-TIT-TOT
UNDER THE SUN
WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLEE
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE EDITOR
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I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.
A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.
I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.
Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby ‘Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.
I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President – Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.
You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com