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will already have an audience eagerly awaiting your posts sign up below ready your theme and put march 21 on your calendar posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 6 00 am 3 comments labels a to z blogfest theme reveal thursday february 18 2016 turkmen valentine at the silk road house the title makes sense i promise the day after epic day still in the bay area i had the opportunity to join a group of tellers on their monthly performance at berkeley s silk road house in one season these events walk the historic silk road from china to turkey and each stop along the journey corresponds to the tales of a distinct culture it just so happened that the second sunday of february was dedicated to turkmenistan and valentine s day the srh is not a large venue about thirty odd people fill it up but it is a lovely corner of cultural events with a very friendly organizer team and core audience there were drinks and snacks available and a box of artisan bonbons courtesy of a local chocolatier because of valday they were in between art shows but i still got to sneak a peek at the gorgeous photos and paintings they had to decorate the space there were four tellers in the lineup all four had been in epic day the day before ann riley told a short and lovely little tale about the wisdom in deciding how to punish a thief she was followed by dana sherry the director of the storytelling programs at srh and my gracious hostess who told a long and elaborate fairy tale about a stolen bride and her sister who was an antelope it made sense at the time she is a very graceful storyteller and also very funny in an eloquent way i really enjoyed her telling especially because she managed to turn a folktale type that never made sense to me the prince not recognizing his wife has been replaced by an ugly servant woman into something that we could all accept in the telling with the appropriate suspension of disbelief after a short break it was my turn i told gemstone mountain i blogged about the story in detail last week and it came out very well it worked in live telling the audience followed through there was some laughter and some gasping and everyone appreciated the many turns of events it was actually a lot more fun to tell than to read duh and it is definitely a keeper for my repertoire i like shiny things the concert was closed by cathryn fairlee who did a twenty minute section of the epic of dede korkut it was one i had not heard her do before and i loved every minute of it it was a variation on the cyclops tale from the odyssey with a mix of the black thief and the knight of the glen and the legend of cacus thrown in cathyrn is not only a masterful teller but she also has a deep love for epics and a dedication to in depth research that makes her performances truly amazing i don t know if i have ever told a single turkmen folktale before in my life but this one was definitely a positive experience i wish i could come back to berkeley every month to do the entire silk road run i plan on visiting again when i come back for epic day in the fall but for those of you who live in the bay area definitely check it out posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 10 32 pm 2 comments labels epics folktales performances turkmenistan the tales of the golden corpse epic day 2016 1 i had the pleasure and the privilege to once again join epic day after telling the táin twice last year both of which events were an amazing experience i returned to california for a long weekend for a brand new epic and some spectacular storytelling this year s selection came from outside europe as traditional for epic day which is celebrating its 12th year in 2016 we voted last fall and the majority decided on the tibetan tales of the golden corpse this is not as much an epic as a traditional collection of tales within a continuous frame story much like the 1001 nights it was different enough from the previous year s bloody war story that participants were eager to delve into it and revel in the contrast there were 18 storytellers and some audience present about 25 people gathered in cathryn fairlee s great storytelling room bringing snacks and stories we begun telling around 11 am and finished just before 6 pm not counting the breaks the string of stories amounted to about five and a half hours it was a nice comfortable day of storytelling and great fun as well in tales of the golden corpse a boy has to atone for his rash decisions by fulfilling a quest given to him by a buddhist master he has to carry a magical gold and turquoise corpse from a cemetery all the way to the master s cave and he is forbidden to speak even a word while doing it if he speaks the corpse flies back to where it started and the boy has to begin the trek all over again the corpse on the other hand tries its best to make the boy lose in order to coax a verbal reaction out of him it keeps telling enticing stories that end with a twist or a cliffhanger the boy falls for the trick every single time hence we get a long series of stories the tales themselves are more folk and fairy tale like than truly epic some are variations of the animal husband or beauty and the beast others have elements of the kind and the unkind girls all are saturated in tibetan culture some heroines remembered their past lives and the story i selected dealt with the journey of a soul stuck outside its original body which by the way was the eeriest of all the tales and it could have easily doubled as a d d adventure it was stunning to see how differently this epic day felt from the táin while the latter was a form of deep trance following a hero from birth to bloody death and riding the emotional rollercoaster of iron age irish myth the tales of the golden corpse were mostly light hearted and often hilarious there is something to say about the storytellers being a tad more comfortable here everyone had their own individual tale so we worried a lot less about connecting with the others telling before and after this also encouraged tellers to bring their own style to each tale instead of trying to match others in addition there were a lot less names to painstakingly pronounce the tales also felt less serious and allowed for more playfulness which we all took advantage of while still respecting the stories and the culture obviously i am not saying this experience was any better or worse than the táin but it was profoundly different and i am glad i got to experience both some things stayed the same though for example once again the true nature of the tales only emerged from oral telling i read the book in preparation and many of the stories felt off weird or even grotesque but when i heard them told live they all made perfect sense and grotesque turned into hilarious we also soon found our connecting rhythm of running jokes in the frame story everyone had to narrate daychosangbo trekking back to the cemetery before their own story and narrate the moment when the boy spoke and the corpse flew away in the end this repetition did not only connect our telling into one continuous shared experience but also offered a great opportunity to add our own creativity to the repetition some people simply mimed the motions others winked at the audience while the boy swore that this time he will surely keep his mouth shut and everyone had a lot of fun with the questions or comments that burst out of the boy s mouth and ruined the silence i also learned in practice that these questions or comments worked in telling even if they seemed strange on paper i changed mine because it didn t make sense to me when i read it but after this experience i think i ll switch back to the original question when we tell again in the fall this is why i love it that there are two events for each year s epic one of my favorite moments of the day was liz nichols telling of the gold spitting prince in this story two friends defeat a giant frog and a giant turtle the monsters turn into tiny gems and by swallowing them the boys gain the power to spit gold and turquoise liz brought us bowls of gummy turtles and gummy frogs in case we wanted to try for ourselves of course no one swallowed any of them whole i think but it was still very amusing to munch on some candy while listening to the tale it s one of my favorite folktale types i included the mongolian version in my book all in all we had a great day of fun tales tasty snacks and storytelling friends i am looking forward to doing it all over again in the fall posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 5 37 pm 1 comment labels epicday epics folktales performances tibet travel folklore thursday the princess that turned into a prince today is folklore thursday on social media if you want to find out more follow this link or click on the folklorethursday hashtag on twitter hosted by folklorethursday today s post is a folktale translation i have talked about this story before when i discussed gender representation and storytelling a visitor on my blog asked for a full translation for research purposes and i am more than happy to help being a research dork and all and since i am a little overwhelmed right now i decided to double it as a ft post enjoy disclaimer this translation is my own work as close in wording to the original as possible i don t tell the story in quite this version because some parts just rub me the wrong way but since this is a translation for folklore research i left it untweaked be warned for adult disturbing content disclaimer ii hungarian language uses gender neutral pronouns only in english i used she for the princess until the actual sex change took place unless someone was talking about her as a soldier the girl who became a man translated from ortutay gy kovács á dégh l 1960 magyar népmesék budapest szépirodalmi könyvkiadó pp 281 290 original storyteller lászló korpás tiszabercel story collected in 1935 the hungarian folktale type catalog knows 5 versions of this story from hungary a king didn t have sons only daughters a king from another country asked him for an army officer from his family saying if he didn t provide one they would declare war against him the old king couldn t go himself since he was old out of his three daughters the eldest volunteered for the soldier s uniform and the rank of lieutenant she would cut her hair short and ride on a beautiful horse with spurs on her boots she got dressed and mounted an iron nosed witch was trying to get her sheep out of a ditch but was t strong enough the disguised lady noticed the witch the witch greeted the princess and asked her to help saying please come and help me get the sheep out you can get them out yourself i was not born to work said the iron nosed witch go back since you are a woman no one will accept you where you are going the princess went on thinking the words of the witch scared her she noticed i was a woman the army even has doctors they will have to see me too maybe they will even examine me since i am from another country she went back home she said to her family i am not brave i won t go her sister dressed up in her clothes she also met the iron nosed witch the witch asked for help i won t help if you don t help me my son you won t have luck on your way her sister had told her why she returned she also returned to her father s house she too told her father that she had lost her courage their youngest sister was only twenty one years old she said i will go my heart is not made of willow wood that soldier s uniform made for you fits me very well i am braver and better than you are she set out she found the iron nosed witch half of her sheep were still in the ditch in the water and mud the witch said your highness my lady please help me get these few sheep out i have been struggling with them for more than a week the princess said how can i go into that muddy water in this nice uniform the witch said just take off your clothes get naked you are a woman just like i am we don t have to be ashamed if god helps us and we get the sheep out the other ditch has clean water we can wash ourselves get dressed and go to my house after they got dressed they went to the small cottage of the iron nosed witch she said to the princess here is this stick take it she pointed to a broom shrub hit that bush with this stick a large hare will jump out of it and run towards my house follow it the hare did run and so did the princess to the witch s house the witch said i will show you kindness my son for this without hesitation you shall know i am not a nobody the witch yelled at the hare the hare fell to the ground rolled and turned into a beautiful golden haired horse you shall ride this one my son come into the room she opened the wardrobe and took out a finer and more beautiful soldier s uniform she dressed the princess in it the horse i am giving you is a táltos magic horse it can talk to you when you get to the other country s king you will report which kingdom you came from tell him whose son you are do not tell them you are a girl she was greeted kindly by the officers of the army they all thought that other countries had such handsome men they announced her to the king the colonel gave her as a lieutenant to a company in a couple of weeks they had to go to battle the leader of the company became ill so the lieutenant took his place they got the order that the regiment had to leave the next day and she was the leader of the first company of the first regiment she went to the stables to her horse she was sad and the horse noticed her sadness why are you so sad unless it is cancelled we are going to battle tomorrow it did get cancelled but the soldier had to appear in front of the king the king came out onto the porch with his family the foreign lieutenant was the leader standing up front the king s daughter took a liking to her the king was sad for his soldiers and on account of his daughter s request he turned them back because his daughter loved the lieutenant give me to him mother father invite him and i ll wed him if he ll have me because that matters they invited the foreign lieutenant she couldn t get out of the wedding so the two girls were wed on the night of the wedding around midnight her wife called her to the bedroom let s lie down my love they embraced but the lieutenant couldn t do anything since she was a girl too her wife hated her for it at dawn she told her mother and father get rid of him father tie him to the tail of a steed i hate him more than i loved him before let s wait my daughter see what god has in store for us he is going to war the day after tomorrow i treasure him as a son in law and maybe he ll die in the war just for you i won t have him murdered on purpose they saddled her horse the next day she went to the stables all sad asked the horse what s wrong my dear master no one can help me now you are saddled because we are going to battle we will be up front we will be the first to die the horse told her to hold on and make sure she didn t 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