taletellers

He did not tell it with art, like the taletellers in the market, but as if he had been there and remembered everything.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

But each new story of the paid taletellers, who squat and drone and reach a climax, and then pass the begging bowl before they finish it - each merrily related jest brought in by members of the constantly arriving trading parties - each neigh of his three chargers - every new phase of the kaleidoscopic life he watched stirred new ambition in him to be up, and away, and doing.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

The people of both countries have been crushed by an oppressive regime and a puppet Parliament, by a dictator's private judiciary and a deaf state TV, by policemen, secret agents, apparatchiks and paid taletellers.

NYT > Home Page By NIKOLAI GROZNI 2011

I must say I was mesmerised, mainly by the story, but also by the taletellers in the shape of Abhishek Bachchan playing 'Masterda' Shurjya Sen, a schoolteacher revolutionary who was a walking dichotomy; talking to pupils about mathematics, philosophy and peace, and yet, masterminding such a violent endeavour in complete secrecy.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Aw've made up mi mind woll aw've been sidin 'up' at aw'll nut waste mi time as aw have done, talkin 'an' gossippin ', for ther's noa gooid comes on it, an' altho 'aw want to keep thick wi' mi neighbors, aw'm determined aw'll chop that sooart o 'thing off at once; for my mother used to tell me,' If ther were noa listeners, ther'd be noa taletellers; 'an' th 'time' at one spends is war nor wasted, for it oft leads ta 'fendin' an 'provin', for them 'at come an' tell yo summat abaght somdy else will just as sooin tell somdy else summat abaght yo.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877