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Tam Lin
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"Tam Lin" is Child Ballad #39, stemming from Oral Tradition, and one of the most popular ballads, both as a song and as a source for literature. It is from southern Scotland; the oldest known version was printed in 1549.In a nutshell: Janet, a headstrong young woman, learns that the mysterious Tam Lin has forbidden all maidens to go to the wood called Carterhaugh (a real place; it's near Selkirk), on pain of... how shall we put this... no longer being maidens. So she declares that she will go to Carterhaugh, but she has no sooner picked a rosenote in ballads and stories, picking a rose summons the ruler of the place. See also "Beauty and the Beast". than Tam Lin himself shows up...note in the earlier and common versions it's consensual, but in some later versions it's portrayed as though he rapes her, and in some versions, the deed isn't mentioned at all, just the resulting pregnancy.Sometime later, a knight at Janet's father's court remarks that Janet looks knocked up.note Alternatively, it's Janet's father who notices. Janet agrees, but states that the baby's father is not any of the men at her father's court. Then she returns to Carterhaugh and speaks to Tam Lin.Tam Lin tells Janet that he was once mortal, but was captured by the Queen of the Fairies. The fairy folk must make a sacrifice to Hell every seven years, and Tam Lin fears he's going to be offered.note There's an oblique reference to this in The Sandman. Janet can save him, he explains, if she waits by Miles Cross until midnight on Halloween. That's when the fairy folk will ride by, and Tam Lin will be on a white horse. She must pull him down off his horse and hold on to him throughout his transformations. Janet does this, and the Queen of the Fairies is obliged to let Tam Lin go. Tam Lin and Janet get married.Joseph Jacobs rewrote the ballad into a prose fairy tale, "Tamlane", published in his 1894 More English Fairy Tales. In "Tamlane", Burd Janet and Tamlane are lovers and engaged to begin with, but Tamlane disappears mysteriously (i.e. is kidnapped by the elves) before the wedding (thus getting rid of the whole knocking-up business).The numerous variants collected by Francis Child can be found here.Joseph Jacobs' "Tamlane" can be read here, here and here.The song or songs inspired by it have been recorded by numerous artists, including Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Current 93, and The Decemberists (the latter a loose adaptation of it as The Hazards of Love with a Downer Ending). | |
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The Wild Hunt | |
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The Wild Hunt: What the fairies are doing when Janet rescues Tam Lin. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: Janet must wait until midnight that night to save Tam Lin on account of it being when the Fair Folk will ride. | |
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Muggle in Mage Custody | |
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Muggle in Mage Custody: Tam Lin is a mortal who had been captured by the Fairy Queen, and lived with her in her world ever since then. Janet manages to rescue him. | |
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Narrative Poem | |
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Narrative Poem: One of the most well known. | |
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Liminal Time | |
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Liminal Time: Save him between Halloween and All Saints' Day. | |
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Sapping the Shapeshifter | |
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Sapping the Shapeshifter: In many versions of the story, the only way Janet can save the eponymous character from The Fair Folk is by dragging him off his horse and keeping hold of him until she can break the curse that was placed upon him. The moment she's able to dismount him, Tam Lin begins unwillingly shapeshifting into a wide variety of forms meant to break Janet's hold, from snakes to toads, but Janet refuses to let go. This ends with Tam Lin becoming a red-hot coal - whereupon Janet throws him into a well, breaking the curse and restoring him to human form. | |
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Rebellious Princess | |
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Rebellious Princess: Janet was explicitly told not to go to Carterhaugh; it doesn't stop her. | |
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: In some versions, Janet, while she states that she does want to keep the baby, she isn't about to be an unmarried mother, and tells Tam Lin off for acting horrified when he's in no position to fix that. But, of course, she rescues him, so she ends up keeping their baby. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
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The Fair Folk: The main antagonists and the titular character. Tam Lin himself seems to be an adult changeling if anything, having been a human who was taken and turned into a fairy. Lucky for him, he seems to have been afflicted with a curse that can be cured. However, in some versions, the Fairy Queen is completely omitted, and it's Tam Lin himself who is the fairy. In this version, Tam Lin states that he will gladly marry Janet if she's able to hold him while he turns into a wolf, a wild bear, a lion bold, and finally himself but naked. Janet does, throws her cloak over him, and Tam Lin returns home with Janet. | |
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Plucky Girl | |
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Plucky Girl: Rather than scream and run from the Fairy who everyone is terrified of, she mouths off to him that she can come and go as she pleases, it being her kingdom and all. Then she faces down the Fairy Queen for him. | |
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White Stallion | |
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White Stallion: In some versions, Tam Lin claims that he was given this honor in the wild hunt because he was once a human knight. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: The Fairy Queen says she should have done this to Tam Lin after Janet rescues him. | |
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Setting Update | |
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British neo-folk/world music band The Imagined Village did a hip-hop Setting Update of this ballad called Tam Lyn Retold. Janet is a modern British woman who seduces Tam, a foreign refugee, in a dance club on May Day. When she finds out she's pregnant, she meets him again and he informs her he will soon be deported to his war-torn homeland. She helps defend him in court after he transforms into a variety of negative stereotypes about refugees (presumably how the court, and society by extension views him) before they finally see him as he really is: just another person. Tam is allowed to stay and settles down with Janet, starting a family with her. | |
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Forced Transformation | |
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Forced Transformation: The fairy queen turns Tam Lin into various animals after Janet pulls him off the horse. In some versions, she also says she should have turned him into a tree instead of taking him along on the hunt. | |
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Human Sacrifice | |
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Human Sacrifice: Tam Lin knows the fairies pay a tithe to hell and thinks it'll be him. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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John Myers Myers's Silverlock contained a Shout-Out chapter. | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Inverted, Tam Lin tells Janet how to save him and then the poem goes into detail about her actually doing it and it goes off without a hitch. | |
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Pregnant Badass | |
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Pregnant Badass: Janet singlehandly saves her elven boyfriend from the Queen of the Fairies while pregnant with his child. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: As is common in ballads and stories, unmarried noblewoman Janet—the last person who can afford to risk sex before marriage—gets pregnant pretty much instantly. | |
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Magical Abortion | |
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Magical Abortion: In some versions this is why Janet goes back to Carterhaugh, for a "poison rose" or herb which will end her pregnancy. | |
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Distressed Dude | |
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Distressed Dude: Tam Lin is held captive by the elves with magic, and needs Burd Janet to rescue him. | |
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