Clips to watch

For convenience, here are most of the video clips on the website collected on this page.
Some, like the first two, are the complete story. Others are just extracts, to whet your appetite!

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More videos will be added as they become available (amateur filming at a gig is always a rather hit-and-miss affair).
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These films are all amateur video quality and are included here simply to give a feeling of what a live performance is like.

Where there is a skeleton of the story on the website, the links will take you there.

How to show them in the classroom

First Smile
A tale which shows why women smile more than men (complete story, 7 min.)
Told at the 2011 Brüder-Grimm-Märchenfestspiele, Hanau.

Milk and Sugar
A powerful tale of immigration (complete story, 5 min.)
Told at the 2011 Brüder-Grimm-Märchenfestspiele, Hanau.

The Blacksmith and the Devil added Nov. 2011
A tale which shows how a blacksmith won against the devil, and also explains those flickering flames of marsh gas known as Jack o'Lantern (complete story, 14 min.)

The Squire's Bride added Nov. 2011
A Norwegian folktale which shows what happens when a man of a certain age begins to think of marrying a pretty young girl (9 min. of the story)

Three Heads
The difference between a fool, a wise man and a storyteller (complete story, 5 min.)
Told at the 2011 Brüder-Grimm-Märchenfestspiele, Hanau.

Deaf Mary (complete story, 7 min.) My telling of a story I first heard from Billy Teare.

Wife's Letter (complete, 5 min.)

King Erysichthon (a short clip from Ovid's dark tale of punishment by the gods)

Wali Dad the Simple-Hearted, the opening of a story about what happened when someone decided to give a present (4 min). Read Andrew Lang's version here.

Reason to Beat your Wife, in case you missed this video on the homepage (complete, 6 min).
It is a story in which one person really does know the secret of how to have a happy marriage.

What Women Most Desire (a short clip from a much longer tale)

Jack goes Hunting 1.
Here are two clips from this very poplular tale. The first is the beginning of the story told in Göckelschen in Groß-Zimmern. (As you can hear, there were several English people in the audience, including one woman from Ascot).

Jack goes Hunting 2.
This clip, from an old performance in Cafè Extra, Büttelborn, shows what to do if your head is cut off.

Old Woman and her Pig (a clip of the last line of this old English chain story)

Tales to hear

Tales to read

All tales listed together

Using these videos in your classroom



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