{"id":12763,"date":"2022-03-29T18:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:36:11","slug":"starring-ava-gardner-as-the-faery-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12763","title":{"rendered":"Starring Ava Gardner as the Faery Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12773\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12773\" class=\" wp-image-12773\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ava-gardner.jpg?resize=139%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"202\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ava Gardner, 1950s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ava_Gardner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ava Gardner (1922\u20131990)<\/a> was one of the most famous American film stars of the late 1940s through the 1960s, probably best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058404\/?ref_=nmbio_mbio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Night of the Iguana <\/em>(1964).<\/a> She had moved to London 1968, which might be why she was cast in a movie that, given my interests, I am surprised to have never heard of: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dhb8I7mGNt0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tam Lin<\/em>, also known as <em>The Devil&#8217;s Widow.\u00a0<\/em><\/a> (Link to YouTube.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tam Lin,&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sacred-texts.com\/neu\/eng\/child\/ch039.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Child Ballad 39<\/a>((Click <a href=\"https:\/\/tam-lin.org\/scotland\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here for information on where in Scotland<\/a> the different versions were collected.)) is a traditional song about a young man who takes up with the Queen of Faery and his mortal girlfriend, &#8220;fair Janet,&#8221; who fights for his return, intercepting the fairies&#8217; ride on Halloween and pitting her love against their magic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They\u2019ll turn me in your arms, lady, Into an esk and adder;<\/p>\n<p>But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your bairn\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll turn me to a bear sae grim, And then a lion bold;<\/p>\n<p>But hold me fast, and fear me not, As ye shall love your child.<\/p>\n<p>Again they\u2019ll turn me in your arms To a red het gaud of airn;<\/p>\n<p>But hold me fast, and fear me not, I\u2019ll do to you nae harm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Musical Interlude<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a stripped-down version from Ana\u00efs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer, performing in Toronto in 2013:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c3yTEUnyYDA?start=8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the great German <a href=\"https:\/\/faune.de\/en\/band\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neofolk band Faun&#8217;s<\/a> version, in German with English subtitles, featuring an actual hurdy-gurdy for that 16th-century &#8220;big band&#8221; sound.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zWorMBCo5e8?start=5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Tam Lin,&#8221; the Movie<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12783\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12783\" class=\" wp-image-12783\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/la_viuda.jpg?resize=216%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/la_viuda.jpg?resize=129%2C150&amp;ssl=1 129w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/la_viuda.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=216%2C250&amp;ssl=1 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I like the poster for the Spanish-language version best.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the northern Colorado covenstead in the late 1970s, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentangle_(band)\">Pentangle<\/a> was one of the bands whose albums were on constant rotation.((The definitive book on the British electric-folk revival of the 1960s\u20131970s is Rob Young&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LpAQG2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain&#8217;s Visionary Music<\/em>.)) <\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will hear their version of &#8220;Tam Lin&#8221; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067822\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1970 movie <em>Tam Lin<\/em><\/a> (also titled <em>The Ballad of Tam Lin <\/em>or in one version, <em>The Devil&#8217;s Widow<\/em>). It starred Ava Garder (47 or 48 at the time) as Michaela &#8220;Mickey&#8221; Cazaret&#8221;; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_McShane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian McShane<\/a>, 27, as &#8220;Tom Lynn,&#8221; her current boy-toy \u2014 one of a very long series \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephanie_Beacham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephanie Beacham<\/a>, 22, as Janet.<\/p>\n<p>Plus a large cast of long-haired bellbottoms-wearing young people as the equivalent of the Fairy Crew, both a pleasure-seeking &#8220;light&#8221; version and a more violent &#8220;dark&#8221; contingent. The director was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roddy_McDowall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roddy McDowell<\/a>, better-known for his roles in the <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p>I will return the question of disparate ages later.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12774\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12774\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12774\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fairy_crew.jpg?resize=576%2C247&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fairy_crew.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fairy_crew.jpg?resize=300%2C129&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fairy_crew.jpg?resize=150%2C64&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/fairy_crew.jpg?resize=500%2C214&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can think of this lot as the &#8220;light&#8221; fairies.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Gentry Doing Weird Things in the Big House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Isn&#8217;t that the favorite trope of British horror films? The action may start in the city, as does <em>Tam Lin<\/em>, but the real weirdness is at the country estate where the lord\/lady of the manor is a secret Satanist, Pagan, sex magician, Reptilian, whatever. One of my favorites is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0095488\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Lair of the White Worm<\/em><\/a> (1988), but there are So Many Others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12778\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12778\" class=\"wp-image-12778 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ian-and-Ava.jpg?resize=300%2C127&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ian-and-Ava.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ian-and-Ava.jpg?resize=150%2C63&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ian-and-Ava.jpg?resize=768%2C325&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ian-and-Ava.jpg?resize=500%2C211&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ian-and-Ava.jpg?w=908&amp;ssl=1 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tam and Mickey in happier times.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this movie, once Tam Lin is at the big house, events pretty well follow the ballad&#8217;s narrative, with new characters added. He meets Janet (the vicar&#8217;s daughter) at Carterhaugh. Sex ensues. She becomes pregnant. He wants to leave his older mistress \u2014 but she is not going to make it easy for him, not at all.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12781 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/i_ll_let_you_go.jpg?resize=459%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The &#8220;Carter&#8221; Confusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As an American, I did not have a map of the Scottish Lowlands in my head. When I read the lyrics for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steeleye_Span\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electric-folk band Steeleye Span&#8217;s<\/a> version of &#8220;Tam Lin&#8221; (Steeleye Span was also in heavy rotation at the covenstead in those days.), they said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tam-lin.org\/versions\/steel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oh, I forbid you maidens all<\/a><br \/>\nThat wear gold in your hair<br \/>\nTo come or go by Carter Hall<br \/>\nFor young Tam Lin is there((Tam Lin here presented as a sort of young robber knight, but working for the Faeries.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>But &#8220;Carter Hall&#8221;?<\/strong> To me, that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnmiddletonco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a brand of pipe tobacco<\/a> that I saw on store shelves, named for a plantation in northern Virginia.((For the record, my Clifton ancestors apparently got off the boat in<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surry_County,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Surry County<\/a> Virginia, on the James River, and did not own anything that qualifies as a &#8220;hall.&#8221;))\u00a0 That is in America, not Scotland, but maybe there was another? (Not according to Google.)<\/p>\n<p>Originally,\u00a0 the encounter between Tam Lin and Janet occurrs at <em>Carterhaugh<\/em>, which is a real place on the Scottish border \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carterhaugh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the name designates a farm and a woodland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/opinion\/columnists\/we-cannae-stop-speaking-scots-ye-ken-908202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some Scots speakers have a way of dropping final &#8220;L&#8221; sounds,<\/a> so &#8220;ball&#8221; becomes &#8220;ba,&#8221;\u00a0 for example, and thus &#8220;Carter Hall&#8221; and &#8220;Carterhaugh&#8221; would sound about the same. So some English folksinger could hear &#8220;Carterhaugh&#8221; and think that &#8220;Carter Hall&#8221; was the &#8220;correct&#8221; wording.\u00a0 The so-called correction introduced a new scribal error. This happens more than you realize.<\/p>\n<p>As the Tam Lin ballad website says on its &#8220;Carterhaugh&#8221; page, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/tam-lin.org\/scotland\/carterhaugh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The town [Selkirk] itself doesn&#8217;t have much in the way of tourist industry aimed at Tam Lin fans<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Older Woman, Younger Man, Younger Woman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The older woman-younger man-younger woman dramatic triangle pops up all the time. In a pre-pubescent version, it is the core of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Snow_Queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hans Christian Anderson&#8217;s story &#8220;The Snow Queen,<\/a>&#8221; published in 1844.<\/p>\n<p>I read that as a kid and totally got it &#8220;wrong.&#8221; I wanted little Kai to live with the Snow Queen. She was magnetic and amazing, and who was pious little Greta coming to drag him away?<\/p>\n<p>And Ava Gardner? In 1966, three years before she made <em>Tam Lin<\/em>, she tried for the part of Mrs. Robinson in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061722\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Graduate<\/em><\/a>, in which &#8220;a<span class=\"sc-16ede01-2 gXUyNh\" role=\"presentation\" data-testid=\"plot-xl\"> disillusioned college graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000163\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Dustin Hoffman<\/a>] finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000843\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Anne Bancroft,<\/a> 35 at the time, got the part. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001684\/?ref_=tt_cl_t_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katharine Ross<\/a>, 26, played the daughter. Yeah, do the math. Anne Bancroft was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman. Weirdly, <em>The Graduate <\/em>is described as a &#8220;romantic comedy&#8221; but also as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Graduate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 17th greatest American film of all time<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the message from pop culture, whether ballad or film, is the same: &#8220;Youth must triumph.&#8221; But older lovers have some power too, particularly if they are supernatural figures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Wisdom of Traditional Ballads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Boulder, Colorado, I had a friend named Michael. A decade earlier, Michael had run a small speciality store downtown (before Pearl Street became <a href=\"https:\/\/bouldercolorado.gov\/locations\/pearl-street-mall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a pedestrian mall<\/a>) with another guy whom I will call W.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that W. was in a relationship with an older woman. This woman had an 18-year-old daughter. W., being young and horny, went to bed with the daughter too.<\/p>\n<p>When the mother found out, this did not turn into a porn-movie scenario. Oh no, this was real life.<\/p>\n<p>In Michael&#8217;s words, the term &#8220;went ballistic&#8221; failed to describe the mother&#8217;s reaction.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like the closing verses of one version of the ballad &#8220;Tam Lin,&#8221; in fact:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Out then spak the Queen o Fairies,<br \/>\nAnd an angry woman was she:<br \/>\n&#8220;Shame betide her ill-far\u2019d face,<br \/>\nAnd an ill death may she die,<br \/>\nFor she\u2019s taen awa the bonniest knight<br \/>\nIn a\u2019 my companie.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But had I kend, Tam Lin,&#8221; she says,<br \/>\n\u2018What now this night I see,<br \/>\nI wad hae taen out thy twa grey een,<br \/>\nAnd put in twa een o tree.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava Gardner (1922\u20131990) was one of the most famous American film stars of the late 1940s through the 1960s, probably best known for The Night of the Iguana (1964). She had moved to London 1968, which might be why she was cast in a movie that, given my interests, I am surprised to have never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,82,37,36,34,296,17,42],"class_list":["post-12763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colorado","tag-fairies","tag-folklore","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-pagan-ish","tag-scotland","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3jR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1643,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1643","url_meta":{"origin":12763,"position":0},"title":"Donna Gardner a Wiccan? 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Philip Heselton has now written four books on Gardner's life, but his vision is near-sighted and close to the ground, like a mouse seeking food in the grass, unaware that there are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=150","url_meta":{"origin":12763,"position":3},"title":"Gerald Gardner in the 1940s\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Gerald Gardner in the 1940s Capall Bann have published Philip Heselton's second volume exploring the origins of contemporary Wicca, Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration. (Am I the only one who thinks that that title seems awfully Harry Potterish?) Capall Bann's distribution is not great outside the UK, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3626,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3626","url_meta":{"origin":12763,"position":4},"title":"Upcoming Gerald Gardner Documentary","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A commenter asked about the documentary on Gerald Gardner in which Ronald Hutton is involved. Here is the announcement. How long before it might be available outside Britain is a good question.","rel":"","context":"In \"history\"","block_context":{"text":"history","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=history"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3547,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3547","url_meta":{"origin":12763,"position":5},"title":"Mall Ninjas of Pagandom","author":"Chas S. 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