She said that I couldn't record any of her current stories because they all included Mr Goon (a character originally from the Mystery series of books written by Enid Blyton, that we are now reading). Her present run of stories all involve the main characters from this series (the five children Fatty, Larry, Pip, Bets, Daisy and Buster the dog, and Mr Goon) as well as Corin and Aladar. The characters in Bethany's stories do not necessarily play the same role as they do in Enid Blyton's books - for e.g. Larry and Pip play a much more prominent role in Bethany's stories than in Blyton's books. She is also not merely retelling Blyton's stories (of course, knowing her past storytelling, this is to be expected).
Anyway, Mr Goon in Bethany's stories is still a very unpleasant character, to use Bethany's words he is "bad". The interesting part of her explanation was that if I recorded her stories, he would become real somehow , so I couldn't/shouldn't/mustn't do so. She said she has to tell the stories (she's still saying the same thing about the stories being in her tummy and having to get out somehow!), but if she just tells them the badness in them wouldn't become real, but it might if I record them!
She also told me that Mr Goon will not always be bad, and that when he becomes good I can then record her again. As you know, transformation of various main characters has played a significant role in her stories in recent months. Previously there was the good Corin and the bad Corin, and the bad Corin somehow transformed and now the two Corins appear to be one character only, who is good. And of course there is that interesting transformation from dinosaur to human that were undergone by three of her characters, Pip (not the same one as in the Enid Blyton books - this Pip was present before she ever heard of that one) and Corin (who used to be Corythosaurus), and Aladar, who is apparently STILL not finished transforming into human yet. I am not clear on the present status of the old Pip - he was in the process of transforming before she was introduced to the Pip of Enid Blyton, and I think she has somehow melded the two Pips into one, although she is quite clear in stating that Pip the dinosaur and Pip the boy are two different characters if asked about it. Corin is supposedly fully human now. I think I did mention before that she said all these changes (she uses this word, not transformation) are by "magic".
Anyway, the recording ban ended yesterday evening apparently, because she allowed me to record three stories then, and ASKED me to record the one I'm transcribing here below.
So... on with her story. This was recorded in the car, with the Gospel of John as her book prop.
LISTEN TO HER TELL THIS STORY while you read the transcript - for ease of reading, I have omitted some of the repeated words that are equivalent to "stammering" of some sort.
(To me: I’m looking who is, they will find out it. The rest. Not Aladar. Aladar got caught).
Aladar got caught by a wood that was caught on a branch where he perched, perched on it. He gave that wood a snap... at it. And it scratched him, and the rest, “How? But... I WOULDN’T!!! I WOULDN’T!!!”
“That’s not right,” said Pip, a little bit shamed. “Be quiet.”
Corin leapt out and said, “WHAT???? Aladar got caught???? Did he? Did he ever? Show me! Show where... where is he.”
“He got caught by the wood. He got caught by the wood, then he grabbed at the wood and the wood snapped at him and the wood caught him, and he imagined that he was in a dream!”
THEN he opened his door and entered a dank foot(?) flat room that was not comfortable, and he gazed at the amazing pillows that he forgot about last night. Then he left and gazed at it, and he opened his door and entered the dankless room near him. The bad wood on recording is very bad. He can get caught.
Corin was short, and divided into small seeking groups. And Aladar leapt out and this... this is the bad Aladar! He’s going to save the other one!
(Me: there are two Aladars?
B: Yes! The other one is good now.
Me: Ok.
B: The other one, Corin asked him to be good, so he promised he would.
M: Ok.
B: Then he was bad. He KILLED everyone!
After she finished the story, she supplied me with more backstory on the two Aladars. She said the good Aladar is now fully human, having “changed” from a dinosaur. The bad one is still in the process of changing from dinosaur to human. Both have sisters, and both sisters are good. The bad Aladar came to join the group after leaving his own country which was at war. He came with his sister. )
(Sighs heavily) It was north. Then Corin leapt and Aladar searched, and when they ride on the... they ride on something, they screeched at its legs, that it’s foot be very very strong... and it was mighty. And strategy, and urged... the others screamed, “HELP!!!!!!!”
But Corin didn’t miss. He was just in time to go when he heard a small squeaking sound, “(High pitched voice) Ahh!!! Ah!! An ugly pterosaur’s coming to eat me!” It was Choon that was miles far, that he couldn’t see.
“WAIT!!!” said a voice. “I’m coming to help you Choon!” One wasn’t Corin. It was the mummy... the mummy from that kid that said “HELP! HELP!” all the time.
“Open this,” said Larry. He didn’t budge. The others almost laughed. “What’s that, over there?” He pointed to a nearby cave. He saw a something.... open figure that marched to them when they walked past it. They looked. (Makes noise like blowing raspberries, but in several short bursts). And they pointed to a nearby cage... THERE. They disappeared into it, and obeyed Corin to go to the Interstate.
Corin went to the Interstate of course, and he soon found the wood that he was looking for, and brought it home, down to his mother’s carriage where it was kept. They kept Pteranodon safe. They got Pteranodon safe. Safe... so they always kept this close, even mothers and daddies! But he was not keeping the wood, see.
They kept Corin in a locked... in a locked room with the Pteranodon. He went out, unlocked himself, the door behind him. And the door crunch out to capture, but he was very far away... at home now. He said to Aladar, “This is MUCH more effective than before! I never broke into... almost see us,” (small guffaw) in laughter.
He approached and said, “We’ve five mint seed.” (Chuckles). He showed Aladar the seed, “And the other Aladar is locked in there.” Aladar leapt out and disappeared into some dark open plains, of lightning fast. And other woods touched.... and touched such a nearby branch. (In an undertone) And he caught... he went in there... get some. (Back to normal voice) He went in there, and didn’t get caught. He get the other Aladar and bringed him home and they lived happily ever after, and Corin toast a branch on a clasp of cactus, then... then urged him not to go.
He soon got home, and heard a squeaky noise. He woked up! And jumped! Aladar screamed, and they ran up in the room. Went out... they RAN OUT FROM THE ROOM! And hide behind the doors (sounding increasingly urgent and speaking faster and faster) and they locked it behind them and they OPENED... opened it when the sound came again. They HID behind the doors, and locked up and they opened the door and “Sssssssh!........ to the carriage.”
And they safe, but they were still frightened of the noise.
Corin BOOMED into the woods, and DASH it out, and Aladar was JUST beginning to go when a squeaky noise came. “(Squeaky small voice) Help! Help! Lorenzo is coming down me! Help! Help! Someone help me, help!”
Without warning, Aladar STAMPED and hide behind Larry, and Larry slipped! But no answer came from the amazing figure. And no approached figure came out.
He approached a branch where Fatty was laying, down deep in the dumps. The tenants(?) were soft and no one could hear it, that he was ditched and beaten. For the first time he was on a trick that the others could see very well, to his amaze when he... when he approached on a... on a amazing figure that where they could come up, down in the Hollies and lift up, and screamed in delight, “Fatty! Fatty!”
Without warning, Corin pulled Fatty down and the BUMPED into Pip, that was warning not to go to the woods, and he was... he was CONFUSED!! And the OTHERS bumped into him! And they all SHUFFLED down, and they was SHURPED(?) and SHURPED by another one.... Corin! Corin STABBED and yelled, “(Squeals) Larry! Larry!” But Larry was already there and scrupped down, and without warning he was already at the back. And he pulled.... pulled and pulled, hard as he can. And they pulled together. And each of them scrunched and scrunched together. And each of them do that.
(Me (after a few moments silence): What is scrunched?
B: Scrunched means they BUMPED into every. Scrunched means they bumped into each of them. Another person and another person and another person and another person!
Me: Ok.)
“Larry, you go in and free...when, when I smile giving them face,” left out from the hedge and obeyed to go with him. Larry leapt, and lived happily ever after.
The end.
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