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Thread #157721   Message #3728012
Posted By: Richie
03-Aug-15 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Golden Ball
Subject: RE: Origins: The Golden Ball
Jim,

Brewster in 1940 identified two: Hungarian versions are given in Buday and Ortutay (No. 38 "Az aspis kigyo") and Bartok, Hungarian Folk Music (No. 157).

In Bartok's version, sometimes titled "Feher Anna," Anna's brother Lazlo is imprisoned for stealing horses. Anna sleeps with Judge Horvat to free him, but is unsuccessful in sparing his life. She regales the judge with 13 curses (see Bob Dylan's version, "Seven Curses" also Judy Collins adapted it in 1963 titling it "Anathea").

Richie