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    Lakeland Folk Tales for Children
    Lakeland Folk Tales for Children
    Lakeland Folk Tales for Children
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    Lakeland Folk Tales for Children

    By Taffy Thomas

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    Did you know that if you look closely around Scafell Pike in the winter you might find a great dragon? Or that hidden in the forest around Egremont you might catch a glimpse of the fabled fairy folk? What, you don’t believe me? Read these tales then take a look for yourself. This collection is full of stories that Taffy has told over the years, and that children love to hear time and again. Including a gang of smugglers and an ugly-face pulling competition, not only will children love to read them, or listen to them being read, the tales will also stimulate an interest in the area, and help children engage with their own surroundings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateOct 3, 2016
    ISBN9780750969482
    Lakeland Folk Tales for Children
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    Taffy Thomas

    TAFFY THOMAS is a professional storyteller who gives around 300 storytelling performances across the country each year. One of the UK’s most loved storytellers, he was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year’s Honours List for services to storytelling and charity. In 2000-2011 he became the first laureate for storytelling, a role created to promote the power of stories. Taffy is the artistic director of the Northern Centre for Storytelling in Grasmere and the author of three collections of folk tales for The History Press. He lives in Grasmere, Ambleside.

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      Lakeland Folk Tales for Children - Taffy Thomas

      Chrissy.

      SCAFELL PIKE

      Despite the efforts of St George, every part of England boasts a dragon story or two. The tale that follows is one that I have brought home from my travels. It seems to live happily here, even changing to feature ‘a host of golden daffodils’, the Lakeland sign of spring.

      It was the iron winter. The Dragon of Winter had curled itself around Scafell Pike, with its icy scales and tail sliding down into Lakeland and towards the Furness peninsula. The rivers Duddon and Greta were frozen solid; even part of the sea was frozen at Whitehaven and Maryport. Wastwater, the deepest lake in the country, was frozen so solid that the good people of Wasdale were able to safely skate on it from end to end. Ships couldn’t sail into the port of Whitehaven with food from foreign parts. All the people who lived in West Cumbria fell on hard times.

      They went to the pompous mayor and told him that he would have to do something about the situation. The mayor knew he would have to go and reason with the dragon and persuade him to fly elsewhere. He put on his climbing boots and warm clothes. Slipping and sliding he climbed up Scafell Pike, until he was staring into the icy blue eyes of the Dragon of Winter.

      He told the dragon it was upsetting local folk as they were not getting enough food and they were freezing. Because of this the dragon would have to go elsewhere.

      The dragon told the mayor he was reluctant to leave as he loved Cumbria and the Cumbrian folk, and especially his lofty perch.

      Regretfully the mayor insisted that the dragon would have to leave. The dragon asked where he might go. The mayor suggested the dragon could fly to the frozen north and make a home with the polar bears and the Inuit.

      A tear came to the dragon’s icy blue eye. This was his place; he didn’t want to go. The mayor, although pompous, was kindly, and realised a compromise was called for.

      The mayor suggested the dragon could stay up on Scafell Pike for part of the year, the months that Cumbrians call winter. The time that the dragon spent in the frozen north would be the time that Cumbrians call summer. The time when the dragon was flying north would be called spring. The time that the dragon was flying back would be called autumn. That was agreed and the mayor returned down the mountain to the towns and villages, and told his people that the problem had been solved. They were delighted and told him he had done well, for they knew he had been very brave to climb the mountain and face the dragon. The following day the Dragon of Winter spread its white leathery wings, flew high into the sky and headed for the north. The day after that, the sun came out bright and strong. The fishermen could go out and fish from Whitehaven harbour and ships from afar could again bring food into the ports of west

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