taleteller

“In some ways they also say that a taleteller doesn't have to be perfect if the tale is good enough.”

Even in a little thing

“It takes a long time to tell badly on paper what is told in a minute so well by the 'taleteller,' as Sir Walter calls himself.”

Maria Edgeworth

“Frémont, of Kit Carson, of Harney, and Bridger; the fearless strivers toward an ever-receding West, fascinating for its untried dangers as for its fabled wealth, -- the sturdy, grave men who fought and toiled and hoped, and realised in varying measure, but who led in sober truth a life such as the colours of no taleteller shall ever be high enough to reproduce.”

The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation

“You have sat at the feet of an excellent taleteller, sir, or else you have a prodigious imagination of your own.”

The Brown Mask

“But the ecclesiastical taleteller does not do poetical justice upon any offenders, and he vilely slanders the great Cæsar, Trajan.”

Arabian nights. English

“We reade in ye taleteller Esope, a doue was saued by the helpe of an ant.”

Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

“One could not tell the most extravagant fairy-tale so as to rouse and sustain the attention of the most infantine listener, if the tale were told as if the taleteller did not believe in it.”

A Strange Story — Volume 01

“Thus the historian imbibed naturally the spirit of the taleteller.”

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete

“I think I remember to have heard their names in connection with your profession of taleteller.”

The Pilgrims of the Rhine