![]() TS: I’d love to! Bruin the bear is tricked because Reynard says there is honey inside a tree and he gets stuck. K: Can you elaborate on that? Tricking the other characters? The king sent out his best hunters to bring Reynard in but Reynard had managed to uh…trick all of them and getaway. TS: Ok ok, it goes that uh Reynard was a fox who had done many many horrible crimes, like robbing and rape and murder, and had done so many that the king lion himself wanted to punish Reynard. K: Ok, go ahead, and make sure you even tell the dirty parts *laughter* TS: Exactly! It was only really told in the uh house because it was dirty *laughter* it’s not something you tell your child at a dinner. K: Yea, a fable, like a story that teaches you a lesson? I only ever heard it from my grandparents after they had too much wine *laughter* because it was a dirty story and didn’t teach any uh lessons like so many of uh…I don’t know the word in English…Legende? Uh, fable? It is called Reynard the fox, and it is a very very old story. ![]() K: Ok, so can you tell me the name of the story, where you heard it, and the context of the performance? Like under what circumstances was it told. She noted that this story was told to her only by her older family members while laughing, never by her mother or other children. (Notes-The informant will be referred to as TS and the interviewer as K)īackground info: TS is a mother of 3 who grew up in Nice, France, and moved to Los Angeles when she was in her 20s.
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