Anna’s poster
We thought it would be good to make notes here about the evening event and open space workshop in May – remember the poster? TUUP (The Unorthodox Unprecedented Preacher) and Ben Haggarty performed to a full audience at the Brewery Theatre, telling a variety of tales that generated discussion that carried on into the [...]
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton lived a short but eventful life that encompassed pulling the wool over people’s eyes with his clever forgeries of medieval manuscripts, passing off his own poetry as that of a 15th Century monk when he was only a teenager. He even went as far as creating his own ‘dictionary’ so as to be [...]
Princess Caraboo
This tale of a 19th Century Con Artiste has a connection to Bristol – you can read all about Princess Caraboo and the story of how she duped people into thinking she was a lost princess from a strange land, when she was in fact a cobbler’s daughter from Devon. Princess Caraboo, or Mary Willcocks Baker, lived in [...]
Phishing Collection
This is a small selection of Phishing Expeditions received via email, reproduced here in their unedited version. I particularly enjoy the one that entreats me to Take Caress… Read, enjoy, Respond! Phishing Collection #1 Mr. Randy Chow Angelo uses the crash of the ‘German Concorde plane’ as his starting point. Phishing Collection #2 From no less [...]
Joshua Safford – Trickster Tales and Magic
A short promotional video of Joshua Safford’s Scholastic entertainment program. A round the world look at the mythology of Trickster heroes illustrated through magic.
American Folklore list of trickster tales
The site contains retellings of: Brer Fox Catches Old Man Tarrypin Brer Rabbit Earns a Dollar-A-Minute Brer Rabbit Fools Sis Cow Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby Connecticut Yankee Coyote and Wishpoosh Coyote and the Columbia Crow Brings the Daylight Davy Crockett and the Coonskin Gollywhopper’s Eggs Rabbit Plays Tug-of-War That Pesky Fellow The Trickster [...]
The Dreaming Wind (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales Anthology)
The Dreaming Wind, by Jeffery Ford Its name, The Dreaming Wind, was more indicative than you might at first believe. What is a dream, but a state founded enough upon the every day to be believable to the sleeping mind and yet also a place wherein anything at all might and often does happen. Tomes [...]
Native American Trickster, Image 2
‘Trickster Tales’ by Anna Brinded. The main character in this series is a shape-shifting Coyote, a typical Native American protagonist.
Native American Trickster, Image 1
‘Trickster Tales’ by Anna Brinded. The main character in this series is a shape-shifting Coyote, a typical Native American protagonist.
