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SOS: Searching Out Stories and Information about Drinking - Dionysus - Wine God
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1) We are giving my uncle's wife new drinking glasses for her 60th birthday, and I want to give a story to go with them. Thus far I have found:
a) "The Jug of Water" - when the guests pour water into the barrel of wine (but I don't think it will suit).
b) "The Handful of Salt" - a wisdom tale about putting one handful of salt in a glass and taste it, and one handful of salt in a lake and taste it. (Might work, but a bit too serious).
c) Another wisdom tale about a Hindu master drinking a glass of soy sauce after an earth quake (too short).
d) "The Princess on the Glass Mountain" (too childish in the audiences point of view...).
e) A Hodja tale of Priscilla Howe, with a Bulgarian (?) Hodja carrying a box of glass bottles (I don't find the ending funny...).
f) "Drinking Companions" - a folktale from China It can be found in Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
Bones:
A fisherman goes to the river each day to fish and he takes wine with him. He always pours a little on the ground so the spirits of those who have drownd in the river can have some too. Eventually one of those spirits comes in person to drink with him. Then the spirit leaves to become a minor diety. The fisherman is blessed through his sharing with this spirit.
2) "The Wooden Sword" - this can be found in Wisdom Tales from Around the World (World Storytelling)
Bones:
A king disguises himself to go through his kingdom to see if all is well. The cobbler invites him in a shares what he has. The disguised king asks him what he would do if he could not make money repairing shoes and the cobbler says he doesn't worry because all will be well. The king makes a law that old shoes cannnot be repaired. The cobbler helps carry water and that night when the disguised king comes, he has even more to share. The king continues to make laws that put the cobbler out of a job and finally the cobbler is put into the king's guard. The king's guard is paid once a month so the cobbler carves a wooden sword and pawns his sword to get money for food. The disguised king comes and the food and drink is shared. Next day the cobbler is commanded to execute a man. He knows that he will be punished when he draws his wooden sword. The cobbler lifts his hands to the sky and prays. "Oh Lord, if this man is guilty, give me the strength to kill him. If he is innocent, may my sword be turned to wood." Put your emphasis on whatever the cobbler had to drink water, milk, wine, he poured into two glasses and shared it.
3) "The Story Spirits" - folktale from Korea.
Bones:
Every night the old servant tells his selfish young master a new story. The story spirits are forced to enter a leather bag because the boy does not wish to share them. The old servant hears the story spirits plot to get revenge by killing the young man on his wedding day. After the servant repeatedly rescues him, the young man realizes that no one person owns the stories. They are meant to be shared.
4) "The Story Spirits" (Korea) from Apples From Heaven: Multicultural Folk Tales About Stories and Storytellers
Bones:
It involves a leather bag but could be changed so the story spirits are put into a glass container with a lid. Young man learns that stories are meant to be shared--given to all who care to listen just as you will share whatever you have to drink in these drinking glasses. If you start thinking about stories with containers and stories with water or wine in containers, you may find other stories or other people on the list may be able to share additional stories.
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