Port Townsend Mythsinger Is Featured

Aimée Ringle is a musician and storyteller who has been living in Port Townsend for the past five years. During that time, she has studied with renowned myth singer, Daniel Deardorff and traveled to Devon, England to workshop with British mythologist and rites of passage facilitator, Martin Shaw. Ringle is currently enamored with folktales, legends and fairy stories from around the world and for now it’s safe to say that reviving old stories for a culture that needs them is the heartstring of her work as a storyteller.

She is honored to perform as the guest teller in Port Angeles and plans to share the story of the Cinderbiter on March 17th.

Cinderbiter – better known as the tale of “Assipattle and the Muckle Mester Stoor Worm” is a Hebridean/Scots story about a young farm boy who grows up weird and dreamy between the cracks of his rough and back-burdened parents and six elder brothers. Our hero sleeps every night and dreams away most of the day huddled next to the ashes of the family home fire – hence the nickname, Cinderbiter. The strange and mythic otherness of this boy that is honed and illuminated in the late night hearth flames is of no use to his family. However, when a massive and merciless sea monster looms large on their coastline and threatens to lay waste the countryside, it is only the boy’s unprecedented daring that stands any chance of vanquishing the beast!

This tale is well suited to unsettling times and speaks glowing sparks of hope into the darkness of what seem like insurmountable odds.