I learned about "telling the bees " from Terry Pratchett’s Hat Full of Sky (which I’m reading to my nine-year-old, but we may have to stop because she says it’s not as fun as the first Tiffany Aching book, probably because I have fewer opportunities to do my Nac Mac Feegle accent).
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It is interesting to me that behive shaped refers to a traditional straw skep despite the fact that it bears little resemblance to either wild hives or the modern man-made hives in use for well over 100 years
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(this is old, old Indo-European shit, and fascinating, accordingly)
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PL Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins, has a good essay about this practice in her book What the Bee Knows.
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Have we tried putting him in a container of rice?
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I remember discovering the ■■■■■ ban when commenting on a post about the dogëden. (a semi-buried doghouse)
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does this somehow redeem the wicker man remake?
It’s funny because whilst this happens there are British people that can’t afford to heat their homes.
… At least I assume that’s the joke.
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I learned about telling the bees from an episode of a British murder mystery. Can’t remember which…Poirot, Miss Marple, Father Brown, or Midsomer.
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That’s my understanding of it too.
Big Big Train tells the whole story beautifully in their song “Telling the Bees” from their 2016 album “Folklore”.
It’s on Bandcamp. I’m not affiliated, just a fan.
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Do they tell all the other monarchs in English, regardless of the language they actually speak? I will forgive for the moment, but as soon as it is possible this should be done by some combination of pheromones and dancing.
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It was Midsomer Murders S21E3 The Sting of Death.
Oh God why do I know that.
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Oh!
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