halloween

The Tongue of the Dead

Halloween is upon us.  Tonight I will be telling at a wedding, where the bride wanted some spooky stories, and asked me to come up with one about the venue.  I will record that one at some point, but in the meantime, here is a story I always bring out at Halloween, or at other times when people want their spines tingled.  It is an old Arabic folktale, which I found in a book of stories from Iraq.

 

 

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