The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42190   Message #1526397
Posted By: CapriUni
23-Jul-05 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: The Man Who Knew no Stories
Subject: RE: The Man Who Knew no Stories
Refresh. The idea came to me yesterday to use this kind of story (though with my own invented incidents) as the basis for a new song, and I was looking for Auxisris's version, and couldn't find it. I should have looked here, first!

I did find a very funny version in the wee hours of the morning, about a wandering salesman who always has to sleep outdoors, because people know he has no story to tell, and therefore pretend not to be home when he comes knocking. So he has no choice but to sleep on a Fairy Hill, and while there, the Leprechauns send him on an errand to ask the newborn Christ child if the Leprechauns will get into Heaven on Judgement Day.

But I can't seem to get back to that page via Google, even though I typed in keywords I remembered reading.

But that got me wondering: How many versions of this story can we collect?

(And how long should we keep this contest open, for people to guess the ending?)