Oh Tannenbaum

Audio for a mock horror-flick trailer: "Dead Leona."  Sound quality not so good - sorry.

Deadleona

In English lore, fairies were always pinching maids and wives in various places for being slothful...according to the men who wrote these sorts of verses.

16th century wife control

A marsh goblin covets the green glass beads a wood nymph stole from the Moon. The two are overheard arguing about it in a salt marsh.

Overheard in a Salt Marsh

To be a fairy's child

I used to chat on the telephone with an English lady who lived in Merseyside, near Lancashire where my family on my mother's side came from. She once told me that to the English, Americans speak with a "twang." I told her she hadn't heard "real American twang" yet, and to illustrate, I recorded a little sound file that I e-mailed to her. And this is it. 

DocBrock