Friday, February 26, 2016

Tell A Fairy Tale Day

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Tell A Fairy Tale Day is being celebrated today!


What better time than now to tell you about a unique experience I enjoyed while staying with the Franziskusgemeinschaft in Austria last November.
The community invited Eva Meierhofer, a professional storyteller, for an evening of fairy tales!


Eva came with a thick book of  "the world's most beautiful fairy tales."


Also a strange little book, "Tales of Idiots, Poor, Beggars, Jews, and Gypsies."


Since I didn't understand all that much of the German, I could concentrate on Eva's pointy shoes and special umbrella.


The Feenhaar, literally fairy hair, played with a bow, gave ethereal music.
I think it is also called a psalter.

You can hear a sample of its music and see beautiful photos of how the instruments are made in Switzerland here: http://www.klangkunstwerk.ch/Feenhaar-Fairy-Hair


All the members of the Franciscan farming community gave it a try.
It was really a magical evening in rural Austria.
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You can look for Eva Meierhofer on Facebook and see more of her special work.
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7 comments:

  1. I think that having a fairytale day is brilliant.

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  2. memmry of childhhod the best one

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  3. Fairy Tales shout the inner life of the people who tell them. . . . The magic of the night leaked into this post. I am feeling it now, Dina <3 Shabbat Shalom

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  4. This looks like so much fun, but I think I would be frustrated if I didn't understand everything.

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  5. Ephraim Moses Lilien!! Very cool image on the cover of what sounds like a dodgy book.

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  6. Oh I love the idea of having a Fairy Tale Day - seems of late the world news has been so depressing that I'd love to immerse myself in a happy-ending fairy tale!

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