{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65a28c429ba8e30016dff20e/69a7397dddf4d3439a41b547?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Scottish Storytelling Traditions & Traveller Tales ~ with Heather Yule","description":"<p><strong>Tonight on this full March sap moon, Orkney Islands storyteller Tom Muir has a blether with an old pal, well-known storyteller and harpist Heather Yule. This episode is a deep dive into the Scottish oral tradition, which Tom calls \"a free class in great storytelling\".</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>You'll hear this and more:</strong></p><p><strong> • How Heather ended up in Scotland from Chicago, and was raised deeply immersed in traditional storytelling</strong></p><p><strong> • Scottish caleighs as early training for storytelling</strong></p><p><strong> • How Heather met some legendary Scottish Traveller storytellers as a child</strong></p><p><strong> • Tom's memories of Traveller folk in Orkney, and the specter of racism</strong></p><p><strong> • Influences of different cultures on folk tales</strong></p><p><strong> • Travellers' stories and Jack Tales</strong></p><p><strong> • Anecdotes about the great Shetland storyteller, Lawrence Tulloch</strong></p><p><strong> • A PhD on Jack Tales from Appalachia</strong></p><p><strong> • Heather Yule tells a spooky Stanley Robertson story!</strong></p><p><strong> • \"Burker stories\", relating to the horrible days of Burke and Hare, and the dangers to Travellers in particular</strong></p><p><strong> • Press gangs, and the relationship to \"disappearance\" stories</strong></p><p><strong> • Stanley Robertson - storyteller, seer, fortune teller, and how Tom's \"fortune\" worked out; and second sight</strong></p><p><strong> • Christianity and how it was woven together with the ancient Scottish/Celtic traditions</strong></p><p><strong> • The most haunted and evil house in Shetland - the true story of the sadistic laird</strong></p><p><strong> • Telling other people's stories as a way of continuing the connection and honoring the memory of the teller</strong></p><p><strong> • Hearing the voice of the storytellers no longer with us - \"Kist o' Riches\" online</strong></p><p><strong> • The anglicizing of Scottish place names by incomers and map-makers, and re-learning the original meanings</strong></p><p><strong> • Harps, harp-makers; playing the harp while telling a story</strong></p><p><strong> • The beginnings of The International Scottish Storytelling centre, The Netherbow and the storytelling festival</strong></p><p><strong> • Bursary for young storyteller: Meeting with Lawrence Tulloch and shadowing David Campbell</strong></p><p><strong> • Heather pays a beautiful piece of harp music in the manner of the old tradition</strong></p><p><strong> • Working with children and stories</strong></p><p><strong> • Heather tells a Lawrence Tulloch Shetland story with a harp</strong></p><p><strong> • Bouncing stories off other storytellers, like being around the kitchen table</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Links to mentioned:</p><p>A Jack story: Silly Jack and the Princess - find it near the bottom of this page, under tales especially for the bairns. https://www.orkneyology.com/tales-from-tom.html</p><p>Heather's website/TRACS https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/heather-yule/</p><p>Heather's commission art: https://www.heatheryulepapertales.co.uk/paperdesigns</p><p>Story Harvest ~ revered Scottish storyteller David Campbell's book of traditional stories and tips for telling stories: https://www.orkneyology.com/David-Campbell-Orkneyology-Press.html</p>","author_name":"Tom Muir and Rhonda Muir"}