Tag Archives: Fairy Tale

#writephoto – To The Seven by Helen Jones

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Another lovely #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent. If you’d like to participate, you have until Wednesday next week to respond to the prompt. Here is my response: They say I had a glass casket. That I was surrounded by flowers, … Continue reading →

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Tell-Tale Signs III… Stuart France

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* ‘Brown, Black, Grey and Red, All men and women end up dead.’ It seems to me that this rather macabre Fionn tale, adapted from a collection made by Jeremiah Curtin and first published under the title, ‘Myths and Folk-Lore … Continue reading →

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Black … Stuart France

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …As the lot had fallen to Black to go on the second watch, he set a flame to his brand and went off into the night upon Brown’s return, with Fin’s dog, Bran, padding softly behind him. Black wandered … Continue reading →

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Tell-Tale Signs II… Stuart France

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* … A very different Fionn tale (to give him his correct nomenclature), adapted from one of Ella Young’s re-tellings. The full cycle of tales from which this one is drawn are available in, The Tangle Coated Horse, and although … Continue reading →

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Tell-Tale Signs… Stuart France

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …There is lots of real depth in this little story. It is culled from the pages of, ‘Folk Tales of the British Isles’ and is full of that rare and ever dwindling commodity known as Folk Wisdom. This re-telling … Continue reading →

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State of Nations… Stuart France

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* If a nation Fails to stand In right relation To its stories… Continue reading here

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Field of Sheaves VI… Stuart France

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* ‘Riders of the Sidhe to me from every place still free… * That’s how Lug, the Lord of Light, summoned the Otherworldly Hosts… He met his father Cian and Cian’s two brothers and together they set off for the … Continue reading →

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Tee-Pee Tales IV: Each to their Own… Stuart France

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* One day Turtle made ready to go on the war-path. His comrades Live-Coals, Ashes, Bulrush, Grasshopper, Dragonfly and Pickerel determined to go with him. They set out together in good spirits but on the morning of their first camp … Continue reading →

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Bent-Red-Sun-Day… Stuart France

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Sue Vincent

*  … “Oh, that’s good!” “Even though I don’t have a clue to what you’re referring.” “Ah, well I expect that particular quotation may have more to do with spring than autumn anyway.” “Or it may simply have something to … Continue reading →

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Bent-Black-Sun-Day… Stuart France

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “There is one thing that still troubles me,” said Wen who really seemed to have the ‘Rapunzel’ thing stuck in her craw. “Yaas,” said Don, in his most irritating drawl. “Shouldn’t the seasons be sisters?” “On what grounds?” “Well, … Continue reading →

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