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Heather Dale (Music)
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| Heather Dale (Music) | comment |
A Canadian recording artist and touring musician, Heather Dale writes songs for "modern dreamers": witty, fun-loving, imaginative people who aren’t afraid to be different. Heather’s original songs tap into legends, mythology, history and fantasy.Heather Dale is a full-time touring musician, whose original songs explore legends, mythology, history and fantasy, fusing the Celtic folk tradition with a healthy mix of world music and rock influences. Her most famous songs are based on Arthurian Legend, with Mordred's Lullaby in particular becoming very famous. In 2015 a musical based on these works, Queens of Avalon, was funded and created via Indiegogo.Heather's website can be found here. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_1235f055 | comment |
Sedna's father, in "Sedna", is a Dirty Coward who thinks nothing of throwing his daughter into the frigid Arctic water just to make his kayak go faster when a storm endangers the boat. Luckily for Sedna, his Kill It with Water attempt fails, though she can't return to the surface. | |
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Feghoot | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_1759af2f | comment |
"Pierre and Marianne" is a piece of Feghoot with an amazing ending line. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_17ce80aa | comment |
All There in the Manual: Heather usually explains the stories behind the myths in live performances. If you're listening on YouTube and you aren't a folklore buff, you're screwed. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_19fe3478 | comment |
Daddy's Girl: The daughter of the Duke in "The Old Duke" is his only child and heir, and he is clearly very fond of her, valuing her as much as a son in a society that thinks he is a fool for it. | |
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The High Queen | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_1b8cef9c | comment |
The High Queen: Along with The Good King, the leaders the listener is encouraged to acknowledge in "Bow to the Crown". Guinevere describes herself as this in "Queens of Avalon". | |
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| Heather Dale (Music) / int_1ccad9a3 | type |
Villain Song | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_1ccad9a3 | comment |
Villain Song: "Mordred's Lullaby" is about Morgause singing a prophecy to her son about how he is going to be used to bring about King Arthur's destruction — and die in the process. The song "Medusa" may also qualify as this. It is mostly about being true to yourself in the face of others' judgment, through the Point of View of Medusa. "Joan" is more of an Anti-Hero song, but can qualify depending on how you look at it. "I kill without consequence", after all. "Crashing Down" is officially about Mordred convincing his men to rebel against King Arthur. "Golgotha" is a borderline example, since it's about someone in a dystopian world who thinks it isn't their place to do anything. "Trail of Tears" is more an Anti-Villain Song, since it's about a soldier who's Just Following Orders, though he doesn't like them. | |
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Roguish Poacher | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_1d585e06 | comment |
Roguish Poacher: "The Poachers" is about a band of these in the time of William the Conqueror. They aren't evil men, but Robin Hood-esque types just trying to get by under the overlordship of a new and more tyrannical lord than King Harold. | |
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Patriotic Fervor | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_23be181a | comment |
Patriotic Fervor: Call the Names (both the song and the album) praise Heather's Society for Creative Anachronism kingdom of Ealdormere. A downplayed example as Ealdormere is not a country outside of the SCA. | |
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Speak of the Devil | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_2bc8bdeb | comment |
Speak of the Devil: In Black Fox, a fox hunter frustrated with the lack of quarry remarks that he would chase the Devil himself if he were there, with predictable results. | |
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Omniglot | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_2df4fa08 | comment |
Omniglot: Heather sings in English, French, Gaelic, Latin, German, and even Wendat. | |
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Sadly Mythtaken | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_2ec87029 | comment |
Sadly Mythtaken: Culhwch and Olwen refers to Modron as Mabon's father. Modron is his mother, with his father being uncertain, though people think that his father's name was Mellt (blending him with another Mabon mentioned in Arthurian mythology.) | |
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| Heather Dale (Music) / int_34f6774c | type |
Concept Album | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_34f6774c | comment |
Concept Album: At times, Heather seems to do nothing but concept albums This Endris Night twofold — it's an album of Christmas carols and all the instruments were played by Heather herself. Avalon, about Arthurian Legend. Call the Names, Patriotic Fervor for her Society for Creative Anachronism kingdom of Ealdormere. Fairytale about growing up. May Queen another album about Arthurian Legend. | |
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Gayngst-Induced Suicide | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_37085956 | comment |
Gayngst-Induced Suicide: The cover of "I Never Will Marry" is a love between two women, one of whom killed herself, and the protagonist will never marry a man as she pines for her. | |
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Ruder and Cruder | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_3767d6f9 | comment |
Ruder and Cruder: "Pierre and Marianne" is a piece of Feghoot with an amazing ending line. Subverted in "The Poachers". Despite referring to William the Conqueror as "the Bastard" this was a title that he held in real life. | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_396e1c2a | comment |
Face Death with Dignity: "Into Town" is about an old farmer who, feeling death approaching, asks his son to take him into town so he won't upset his grandchildren. | |
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The Middle Ages | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_3d64d015 | comment |
The Middle Ages: A main source of inspiration for Heather's songs, including the "Current Middle Ages", aka the Society for Creative Anachronism. | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero: The protagonists of "Black Fox" are fox hunters who end up confronted by the devil | |
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Artistic License – History | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: "Joan" portrays the titular heroine as an Action Girl, when in Real Life she never killed anyone. | |
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Flawless Token | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_5abe161f | comment |
Flawless Token: Defied in One of Us. The female knight the singer sees in her youth isn't any better than her male peers, but just the fact that she stands with them as an equal inspires the singer to become a warrior herself. | |
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Inhumanly Beautiful Race | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_5bb02372 | comment |
Inhumanly Beautiful Race: The Fair Folk in the song of the same name are described as "tall and proud and wondrous, fair." | |
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Satan Is Good | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_609eb275 | comment |
Satan Is Good: A downplayed example in "Black Fox." While the devil isn't exactly good, he's only a harmless prankster. | |
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Perfectly Arranged Marriage | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_629fa757 | comment |
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: What the narrator of "As I Am" is hoping for. | |
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Fantastic Aesop | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_6d41b8da | comment |
Fantastic Aesop: The message of "Changeling Child" and "Fair Folk" — don't make deals with The Fair Folk. | |
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Foreign Culture Fetish | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_6f214508 | comment |
Foreign Culture Fetish: Heather has one for Medieval English and Welsh culture and folklore, as evidenced by the large number of albums about Arthurian mythology. | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_72757e0d | comment |
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: "These are the actual medieval lyrics, I didn't make this up" for a lyric in Martin Said To His Man during public performances. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_771f6307 | comment |
Morgan in "Mordred's Lullaby" raises her son (who's a product of Brother–Sister Incest with her half-brother Arthur) to overthrow that same brother, with Mind Screw emotional abuse and demanding absolute loyalty from her son. Morgan did have a Freudian Excuse for all this, in that Uther, Arthur's father, murdered Morgan's father and married her mother, though that still doesn't make her actions right. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_776a06eb | comment |
All Myths Are True: If we assume that all her albums occur in the same setting (except for Call the Names about the Society for Creative Anachronism and This Endris Night, an album of Christmas carols) then we have Satan, The Fair Folk, a thinking skeleton, Robin Hood, Selkies and Wereseals... if we include the above albums, we can add Jesus, angels, elves and dragons. | |
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Creation Story | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_781d3791 | comment |
Creation Story: "Sedna" is the Inuit story of the creation of sea life, rendered in song. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_7a82c3d2 | comment |
All Love Is Unrequited: Subverted Trope in "Fille du Roy". The narrator is confident that the titular fille du roy note French orphaned girls who were sent to Quebec "can't want a sailor like me", but in the end she confesses her love for him. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Triumphant Return is Penelope chewing out Odysseus for leaving her alone to raise their son, rule over Ithaca and fend off her suitors for twenty years while he gallivanted across the Aegean and expecting to be welcomed back with open arms. | |
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Politically Correct History | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_7e74d66f | comment |
Politically Correct History: Zigzagged in "Trail of Tears". on the one hand, the narrator rejects racism, despite being a 19th century Southerner. On the other hand, the song is about the eviction of Native Americans due to the same racist beliefs. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: "The Maiden and the Selkie" describes one between a human woman and a selkie man, complicated by the fact that she cannot breathe underwater and he cannot live on land for more than a day. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: The song "Fair Folk" specifically addresses them and does a good job describing how creepy they can be. They are also the subject of "Changeling Child", where a woman asks them for a baby, and ends up with a child who never grew up, with the mother nursing him eternally. | |
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Badass Boast | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: Almost every line in "Joan" is one. Here's a particularly badass verse: | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_8e3b5b4d | comment |
Minimalist Cast: The musical Queens of Avalon has S. J. Tucker and Heather as Guinevere and Morgana, with others being talked about but never seen. | |
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Vulgar Humor | |
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Vulgar Humor: Pierre and Marianne which ends on an Innocent Innuendo by Pierre: | |
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Defiant to the End | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_966da803 | comment |
Defiant to the End: The unnamed narrator of "Hero" (Word of God is that it's about Robin Hood after being captured by the Sheriff of Nottingham), who declares "Though I'd prefer a happy end, no man can cheat the grave." Captain Bryce from "The Greyhound" tells his men to "curse the reaper, bend your back and cheat your sorry grave" as the titular ship is going under the waves. | |
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Wandering Minstrel | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_9d73f176 | comment |
Wandering Minstrel: Troubador is about one of these. It is implied that the titular harpist has died. They also make an appearance in "Come And Be Welcome": | |
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Medusa | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_a998ce5c | comment |
Medusa: She's the subject of "Medusa", which portrays her as an embittered outcast from society who takes pride in her monstrous appearance. | |
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Tyke-Bomb | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_aacc7ea6 | comment |
Tyke-Bomb: "Mordred's Lullaby" is about Morgan turning Mordred into one. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
You have to be extremely careful when making requests of the fairies, as the human mother in "Changeling Child" discovers — she bargained for a child and got precisely that. She never specified that she wanted a child who would grow up. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Morgan in "Mordred's Lullaby" raises her son (who's a product of Brother–Sister Incest with her half-brother Arthur) to overthrow that same brother, with Mind Screw emotional abuse and demanding absolute loyalty from her son. Morgan did have a Freudian Excuse for all this, in that Uther, Arthur's father, murdered Morgan's father and married her mother, though that still doesn't make her actions right. Sedna's father, in "Sedna", is a Dirty Coward who thinks nothing of throwing his daughter into the frigid Arctic water just to make his kayak go faster when a storm endangers the boat. Luckily for Sedna, his Kill It with Water attempt fails, though she can't return to the surface. | |
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AxeCrazy | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_b41acf08 | comment |
Axe-Crazy: The narrator of "I Follow My King" seems a little too willing to strike people down, threatening to do it once per verse for such minor offences as blocking a gate. | |
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Cold Iron | |
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Cold Iron: "Fair Folk" exhorts the listener to "hold high the iron that they fear". Is implied in "Joan", where Joan states that "I've bloodied the Devil with steel from on high." | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Joan in the song of the same name is a Type IV, while Mordred comes off as a Type III | |
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Dem Bones | |
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Dem Bones: Double Subverted in "Skeleton Woman". The narrator is chased by a skeleton he fished out of the ice, who was previously established as having desires. By morning, it turns out that the skeleton was just bones tangled in his fishing rod. He then cries in pity for the skeleton, and his tears animate it. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: "Changeling Child" tells about a childless woman who goes to the faeries to ask for a baby. After a long night's bargaining, she comes home with one, to great joy from her and her husband — only for them to find that their "son" will never grow beyond babyhood. Even in death, the mother still tends the changeling. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_caa28b82 | comment |
Pierre in "Pierre and Marianne". Also a Cloudcuckoolander. | |
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Word of God | |
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The unnamed narrator of "Hero" (Word of God is that it's about Robin Hood after being captured by the Sheriff of Nottingham), who declares "Though I'd prefer a happy end, no man can cheat the grave." | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
A Lighter and Softer variant is in "Black Fox", where the fox hunters declares that if the devil arrived, they'd run after him. They get their wishes, and flee back to town unhurt but terrified. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_d001c42c | comment |
"Trail of Tears" is more an Anti-Villain Song, since it's about a soldier who's Just Following Orders, though he doesn't like them. | |
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Blasphemous Boast | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_d3f33049 | comment |
Blasphemous Boast: In "Black Fox", when a fox-hunting party fails to track down a quarry, the huntsmaster grouses that "If only the Devil himself ran by, we’d run him such a race!" Cue a little black fox with bright red eyes suddenly bolting out of a hole... | |
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Dark Action Girl | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_d5b3df2d | comment |
Dark Action Girl: Joan, from the song of the same name, is this and The Fundamentalist. "I kill without consequence, Heed no man's law/I sift out the righteous like grain from the straw." | |
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The Magic Goes Away | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_d91d0365 | comment |
The Magic Goes Away: "White Rose" is about the elves leaving the earth. | |
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The Good King | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_db912a80 | comment |
The Good King: "I Follow My King" is about one such King and why the singer follows him. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: "The Poachers" has a cheery, upbeat tune for a song about poaching. This is downplayed for most of the text, which from the point of view of the singers is about feeding themselves by flouting tyrannical laws, but particularly glaring in the chorus, with a cheery tune describing the number of fingers poachers have cut off in punishment for taking particular animals. "Pied Piper" also qualifies, with a happy tune about children and a wandering piper conning a town and insisting that their parents wouldn't miss them. | |
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| Heather Dale (Music) / int_dfa1ee91 | type |
Changeling Tale | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_dfa1ee91 | comment |
Changeling Tale: "Changeling Child" is about a woman who accepts a changeling son from the fairies. He remains an infant for fifty years or more, since it's implied his human mother's ghost still cares for the immortal infant. | |
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The Bard | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_e1cd3d | comment |
The Bard: "Come and be Welcome" and "The Bards of Ealdormere" encourage other bards and storytellers to join in, and Heather herself is one for the Society for Creative Anachronism. | |
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Dead Person Conversation | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_e1fa8421 | comment |
Dead Person Conversation: "Lily Maid" is Elaine of Astolat talking about her love for Lancelot from beyond the grave. | |
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Merlin and Nimue | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_e205b147 | comment |
Merlin and Nimue: "Hawthorn Tree" is a song about the original; in the last verse, a knight reports that Vivien had turned Merlin into a tree. | |
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Karmic Jackpot | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_e3a7d2e6 | comment |
Karmic Jackpot: The protagonist in "Fisherman's Boy" makes a habit of only taking as much fish as he needs, throwing the extra ones he catches back in. When he falls overboard in a storm, he's washed up alive on the shore the next morning, the sea having thrown him back out. | |
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The Fool | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_e3d2f2 | comment |
The Fool: Pierre in "Pierre and Marianne". Also a Cloudcuckoolander. Don Ambruglio in "Up Into the Pear Tree". | |
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Exact Words | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
They are also the subject of "Changeling Child", where a woman asks them for a baby, and ends up with a child who never grew up, with the mother nursing him eternally. | |
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| Heather Dale (Music) / int_f4f3252e | type |
Law of Inverse Fertility | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_f4f3252e | comment |
Law of Inverse Fertility: "Changeling Child" concerns a couple who wanted a child for twelve years, but the wife can't have one. Driven to desperation, she bargains with the fairies to give her one, which turns out badly. | |
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Selkies and Wereseals | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_fe42181f | comment |
Selkies and Wereseals: The Maiden and the Selkie is about a human girl (whose great-grandmother is implied to have been a selkie herself) and a "Seal-Lord" selkie who wants her for his bride. | |
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Lady of War | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_fe48cea2 | comment |
Lady of War: The main character in "One of Us", who becomes an accomplished fighter in the SCA. | |
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Literal Genie | |
| Heather Dale (Music) / int_feb72f62 | comment |
Literal Genie: Either out of ignorance or malice, the fairies in "Changeling Child" gave an infertile woman a changeling baby... who never ages, as a babe was what she asked for. | |
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