Story-telling aspects of Goan village life brings back memories of (mostly Salcette) where folks gathered around at dusk and leisurely told tales of days gone by and a few bits of inconsequential current gossip. They were most fascinating (being real) and being told when the light was fading mostly as flickering lamps came alive and the cooling darkness carried the smells of the lighting of the 'chooni'...and sometimes involved dead people and ghosts and a myth or two!!! Tad scary and I slept soundly after, mostly out of fear!!
And reminds me of the power of story telling when I came across the phenomenal story of Fred Pellerin of St.-Elie-de-Caxton (a tiny village between Montreal and Quebec City) who has rekindled an interest in his village (apparently, tourism was on the decline) with his story-telling. He started as a tourist guide telling stories of everyday life in the village. He is now a folk-hero and the principal reason tourists visit the village...and is now a performer telling stories of life in his village............take a listen (In French): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thSwdH3ojIw On 12/28/07, Silvia Bragança <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To Martin Van Camp - Duarte and Goa-net! > > Dear all > > It was wonderful for me to read the above impression of one goan´s origin! > And very surprised with the contender of the massage. > I'm also goan natural, residing at Goa, Portugal and Mozambique and getting > our family all around the world. I feel very very emotionality by your > interesting history and the words that you wrote on your mother "My mother > was a born storyteller". It was the important link that bring it you for us. > Thanks for your mother and for you because you went more and more far in > your investigation. > Now I'm at Mozambique, at January I would like to be at Goa and after at > Portugal. Our family is sprained over the world- (England, France, Germany, > Canada, EUA, Philipinas, Brasil, Angola. > My congratulation for Goa-net who is promoting this important link. > > Boas-Festas e valorisemos tudo o que possuimos através da naturalidade, e > pelas variadas origens e pelos posteriores ligações, transformando o mundo > num único espaço onde haja sempre Paz e Amor! > ( peço, mil desculpas pelos meus erros) > > *Feliz ano 2008!* > ** > *Silvia Bragança* > > > > > 2007/12/27, Goanet Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > My mother was a born storyteller. As a small girl > > she herself -- after school -- went to the park in > > Rangoon and made up all kinds of stories for the > > boys and girls from the neighborhood. Many gathered > > and they all sat in a circle round my mother and > > gaped at her, not a word to say for themselves. > > >
