#5 - Lady Enid - ESTEEM

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Endanger vs endure --> expel.

E is for today's emotion, ESTEEM.

Lady Enid’s narrative, Knight Geraint of King Author’s Court 

Do I like the Story? Maybe? "Lady Enide stands by her man," a power only a wise woman has. A female voice in the first person and speaking in the past tense not done verbally or written for classic tales. She travels on the quest, horrified, astonished, and marvels at her husband's compelling drive for esteem. The sword in hand, the spear, and lance to win, and using his wife as a decoy, The macho male of my early childhood and his car of shiny armor. I understand the burdens placed on this code of behaviors on young males and, thus, the young females.


Knight Geraint, a jealous lover,  an irresponsible husband, takes his wife, Lady Enid, on a long endangered, perilous quest to prove he is a grand warrior (her knight in shining armor) worthy of her admiration and esteem. I adapted and modifies for the narrative by Lady Enid, Daughter of Earl Ynywl, wife to Geraint of King Author’s Court!

This is an ancient tale, a classic, a Mabinogion Myth, early 11 century, or before with versions that cross between Wales and Brittany France. Maybe a bit of Germanic influence included. Stories traveled with the traders and the troubadours which rode on the trading routes.
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Because this is a long tale, my verbal telling done in scenes or events to remember the story, then only after charting the characters, motives, the plot telling the legend. Organizing into scenes is to ground into the events as stages and lets Enid tell the story.
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 ‘Geraint, Son of Erbin’ from the Welsh Mabinogion, the primitive Celtic Arthurian Myths translated by Lady Charlotte Guest (got to wonder about the name).

www.missgient.net, The Mabinogion, The Welsh Mythology, the books' the translation by Lady Charlotte Guest. The site includes more Classic European Myths and Legends.

**Another good site is Timeless Myths, Arthurian Legends, Erec and Enide, Tales of the Knights, created by Jimmy Joe, all rights, October 2006. One can understand the language is updated, and the story simplified, made readable. The oldest versions told in verse.

Hare and the Turtle

One of my favorites fables because I think of myself like a turtle, slow and steady and somehow winning the race. The turtle in eastern countries in their ancient myths holds up the four directions of this earth. P'ngue, the first dragon of China stood on turtle's back and listened to all the stories turtle told. P'ngue gave turtles stories to us. The coastal Indians of American have a story for the 13 sections on turtle's back for the 13 moons of the year.

When I was a child in Colorado, turtles still walked the prairies, and sometimes we would catch one, of course, the snapping turtle bites. The turtles were old about a foot across. I hope the slow, careful reptiles still live on those vast plains of the midwest.

To the Pacific American, turtle carries 13 stories on her back.

HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the TURTLE, who replied, laughing: "Though you are as swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing her assertion impossible, accepted the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race, the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last, waking up, and moving as fast as he could saw that Turtle had reached the goal, and was comfortably asleep after her success.

Slow but steady wins the race.

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Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare, translated by George Townsend, Baronet Books, p. 5, 1954.

Thirteen Moons on Turtles's Back, Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London, illus by Thomas Locker, The Putnam and Grosset Group, 1992. ( four stories on each side and five down the middle of the shell)

WATCH THIS!

And the STORY goes . . .

BEWARE! of the critic - your critic!

This is my slide video on my channel on BobbieTales youtude.com about storytelling --> my challenge for you to share a story! Watch, then put a description and link in 'Post a comment' to share the story that you wrote, told or have on video.

SUCCESS Reflection --> atozchallenge list #598

List #598

I did write 26 stories daily and posted to wattpad.com so others could read--> followed my theme, emotions that fit the story with one negative, had a title design for each story and the LETTER A to Z from the Blogging Challenge. I did survive and did succeed. And my pledge is to weekly add another tale --> I did fail telling the stories on soundcloud.com because this not the venue for storytelling. So my next GREAT PROJECT will be how-to put verbal stories on itunes, plus interviews with artists, writers, and storytellers, telling their back-story of their venues for their audiences --> viewers, readers, and listeners.

Now, more stories to come!

And beyond that on the last day, April 30th, having finish early in the morning the atoz challenge; I went to the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, their last of 30. Once, I volunteer and did publicity, 2008, 2009, and 2010 the 25th festival plus took photos. One marvelous, fantastic, well-organized story festival done by volunteers for 30 years sharing professional performers from across the country and the Bay Area. A family of friends, which I hope regroups into another fantastic venue. Best of all, I bought 26 raffle tickets for my 26 stories written and posted for readers to enjoy. And beyond that, and beyond, guess what?  --> I WON THE hand-stitched QUILT, the LAST ONE, 30 YEARS of festivals and 30 years of quilts! APRIL 30 was a good day!

ZOOM, an Amazing Adventure

Zoom, an Amazing Adventure, an original story - 1984

A to Z Blogging Challenge. DONE!

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ZOOM - An Amazing Adventure

ZEAL, zealous, zealot, zest, zestful —> ZANY

This ABC picture book started with the first graders I taught in Anchorage, Alaska, 1967 and 1968. I put up a list of words each day, and the students wrote a story or drew a picture. They were 5 or 6 years old; so in 2016 these children are now 48 to 50. I hope they have prosperous lives.

 Thank-you, story lovers for reading, may you have the most 😊 affable 😊 amazing 😊 adventure with your storytelling, verbal or written!

X-ing a STORY? Cock and Hen

Read why X'ed on wattpad.com

A to B Blog Challenge

COCK and HEN

 X-ING the act of crossing out something not liked, not good, not understood, not useful, or just -->  X


Some stories just don't fit the storyteller- and the Cock and the Hen is one for me.

 
A cock and the hen go to nut mountain with the agreement
each will divide the nut with the other.
Hen eats hers, and the big kernel sticks in her throat.
She asks the cock to get water.
The brook says it needs red silk before he will give the cock the water.
Cock gets the red silk after he fetches the bride’s garland from the tree.
By the time he takes the water to the hen she has died.
The cock grieves.

Six mice build a cart and pull the hen.
A fox talks to the cock and asks to follow.
Wolf, bear, stag, lion and all the beasts followed from the woods.
They come to a brook.
A straw lays itself across the stream but slips and the mice tumble and drown.
Coal lays across the stream but hisses and dies.
Stone touch by pity lays across the stream. Cock drew the dead hen across.
When drawing the others across, the cart turns over and all drown.
Cock builds a mound for the hen.
Then he lamented so sore that at last he dies.
And so they are all dead together.

Do you have any ideal what this story means or is talking about, or just guess, leave your comments below. Check my musing on wattpad for my take on the story.

The Bear and Heavenly Son, Creation Myth - Korean

A to Z Blog Challenge

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Bear and Heavenly Son – Creation Myth from Korean


WORTH, want, wonderful, watchful, warm, whole, wealthy, willful, willing, wise, wonder, wanderer —> WORRIED

Welcome lovers of story!  Today’s story is about Bear, Tiger and the Heaven’s Son, a creation myth from Korean. Creation myths can be changed to suit the leaders of a country, as done by every, every conqueror since the early battles for territory. The victories broadcasted in paintings on rock, in temples, palaces, in verbal stories, then written, and now photographs, viewed in movies, on TV news, and now on our computers. Story changes to suit the place, time, and teller, as all good stories and history does. Can we believe what we hear or what we see? Some say we do believe what is written. I wonder, Why?

Ruler of Birds

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A to Z Blog Challenge

Ruler of Birds,  an Irish Folktale

Q – QUICK, quaint, qualified, quality, quiet, quest --> quarrel - QUIT


The flight of birds is the envy of people because of the power to see the earth.

Wren Day, “The origin may be a Samhain or midwinter sacrifice and/or celebration, as Celtic mythology considered the wren a symbol of the past year (the European wren is known for its habit of singing even in mid-winter."  Wikipedia

“Wrann, Wrann, the Ruler of Birds” is a ballad. (Can't find it!)

Tatsuko, Dragon Princess

 

A to Z Blog Challenge

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 OBEDIENT, original, orderly, okay, organized, outlandish, outstanding, obliged, observant, occupied, opinionated, open-minded, opportunist, own -- > OPPRESS.

Tatsuko, Dragon Princess
Japan was settled in the 16th-century by generals, who make Japan one very prosperous nation. The 17th-century saw the rise of Kyoto where the rich occupied the fantasy of fashion, courtesans, and eventually the geisha, which means persons of art: conversation, dance, music, preforming the tea ceremony, reading literature, and fine calligraphy, well educated. 1730’s Both men and women were Geishas. They entertained like the jesters in the European courts. By 1780s Geishas were mostly women under strict governmental regulation, not licensed prostitutes. Geishas lived in Tea Houses to offer their entertainments of the arts. The famous Japanese Tea Ceremony is associated with Geisha. Their fashions supported the merchants shops: the gown - the Komodo; fans; hair dressing and wigs; make-up; instruments, and musicians. The story of Tatsuko, Dragon Princess is about a poor maiden who gets her wish to become a rainbow dragon and brings gifts of fish to her mother and village.

Tiger and the Fish

A to B Blog Challenge

Soon on BobbieTales YouTube Channel

I - ingenious, intelligent, imaginative, important, immersed, interested, involved, incredible, innocent, illuminate, impressive, intense, incite, industrious, idealistic, introvert, imitate, impulsive, incisive, influence, ignite  ---> IDLE.

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Rabbit, although very small, is to rib Uncle Tiger or intimidate the large beast into letting the Cousins live in peace, only to take what he needs, not to be greedy. The tale told in Korea spoke about the government officials who is Tiger, and the peoples under Tiger's rule, the cousins. The story is in three parts usually preformed in a dance with the drummers and string instruments, most of the time with a sense of humor as not to insult the officials. Both Uncle Tiger and Cousin Rabbit are in the Zodiac. Tiger is passionate, ambitious, brave, confident, impulsive, and powerful: he is third because he swam across the Yellow River. Rabbit is who fourth and sociable, generous, artistic, intuitive, and modest; she hopped across the Yellow River in the contest to see what animals would be in the Chinese Zodiac. Fish denotes good luck, and prosperity, plenty.

Li Chi, Worm Slayer

A to Z Blogging Challenge

Soon view on BobbieTales Channel

 Li Chi, Worm Slayer

HEROINE, honorable, helpful, humble, happy, harmony, honest, healthy, humorous, having, has, holds, hope --> a negative is HARM!

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The Silk Road was opened  during and after the Black Dragon 100 BC. Trading brought outside beliefs, warriors, and conquerors into China because the Emperors who ruled China, at that time were many and bidding war against each other. With the start of the Chin Dynasty about 220 AD, heroes helped displace these worms and serpents who threatened the protective wise dragons. Li Chi is such a heroine who helped start the Golden Dynasty of the Golden Dragons, who gain control of China’s prosperity and harmony lasted for generations.

Li Chi is the youngest daughter of a farmer who had no sons. She watched as the Sorceress and the Magistrate collected rice from her father and mother to save her older sister from the worm that live on the mountain. She will the serpent.

Ursula's Efforts

Ursula's story - Salt is the Staff of life.

 E is for EAGER, energetic - expert - empathy - excellence - encouragement – expert - earnest - electric – elegance - enjoyable - enthusiasm - excellency - expressive - extraordinary - easy - ecstasy - enable - endure - enjoy – esteem --> and not the opposite EMPTY.



The third girl child of a king is hard, gets harder when her mother dies, and father rejects her gift on his birthday, Ursula is not appreciated by her father, so . . . as an energetic, youth with the help of her servant friends in the court kitchen, Ursula makes her escape into an enjoyable, esteeming eatery and becomes an expert on salt and foods, at The Crossroad INN.  Eventually, Ursula shows her father her efficiently. 
 

Watch the video about Ursula, Salt is the Staff of Life, or read URSULA'S EFFORTS on wattpad.com and compare the differences in styles of verbal to words We enhance, fabricate, embroidery and re-images stories as we tell them, even if practicing for hours. What our minds create is amazing. Words we read we believe; a story not some much because we are aware of who is telling and their view . . .

THEME for AtoZ BLOGGING Challenge

My theme for the  AtoZ Blog Challenge is emotional empowerment. The emotions of a character's personality used to overcome a struggle, suffering, fear, or obstacle. Qualities that enable a character to achieve goals, or not achieve a goal. Some emotions will help while others will not. Also there are negative emotions that drive the character through their adventurous drama.