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This Supernatural season finale represents a storytelling failure — a Writer Crime — because we tale-tellers are slaves to the story, not the other way around.

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From a news column on tale-tellers (who do appear in the odd investigation):

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

In Algiers he might easily have heard it recited by the tale-tellers.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Tawaddud (vol.v. 139) we have the fullest development of the disputations and displays of learning then so common in Europe, teste the “Admirable Crichton”; and these were affected not only by Eastern tale-tellers but even by sober historians.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Inner Apartments” (No. xlix.) have always been favourite themes with Arab tale-tellers as a contrast with citizen suavity and servility.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

[4046] Give not ear to tale-tellers, babblers, be not scurrilous in conversation: [4047] jest without bitterness: give no man cause of offence: set thine house in order: [4048] take heed of suretyship.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The New Inn. It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself without ceremony or restraint.

Kenilworth 2004

He was one of the great American folk tale-tellers.

David Holt plays mountain music 2004

He was one of the great American folk tale-tellers.

David Holt plays mountain music 2004

As You Like It. It is fortunate for tale-tellers that they are not tied down like theatrical writers to the unities of time and place, but may conduct their personages to Athens and Thebes at their pleasure, and bring them back at their convenience.

Old Mortality 2004