Now, are you ready to brave this week's scary fairy tale from Scotland? Are you sitting uncomfortably? Well, snuggle up with your dog, cat, or grownup, and let's give a very warm welcome to Jason Buck.

Hello, everybody.

It's Jason Buck, storyteller here.

You might have heard me tell other stories like The Luck Child or The Old Woman and the Pig.

And I like to make noises and sound effects and accents.

And today's story, well, it doesn't come from England, where I come from.

It comes from Scotland, the northernmost country in the United Kingdom, and it is called Molly Whuppie.

Mm

... a lot of those feel, a lot of those are quite, quite, uh, short and concise in terms of being able to set up a story.

So, I mean, the show I do is m- most of my shows when I'm doing storytelling for, for adults, which is most of my work, um, uh, is, uh, the show's two hours long with a, you know, with an interval in the middle.

So it's gotta, it's gotta give people enough time to sit back and really immerse themselves and allow themselves, as I would say at the beginning of some shows sometimes, you know, to, to, uh, uh, uh, just to enjoy the, the images that I will conjure in their head.

So it's a real immersion that kind of people sit and do that.

Same way you do like an audiobook, you know? Um, uh, and so the Horned God is a nice, long, epic story, and it's got a feel of, you know, uh, by the end of it, you feel you have traveled, you know, across, uh, across lands and across time, and great things have happened.

Whereas I think a lot of the other stories are perhaps either smaller or shorter, more contained, um, or they start getting a bit difficult, like the stuff where he goes to, um...

Mm.