We are finally getting to one of the ballad types and topics that made me realize how much potential lay in these old songs…. Monstrous births. Or, to be clear, that's how they were marketed at the time. They were actually an overall mix of true accounts of birth defects and used the idea of deformity as a direct metaphor. Either which way it went, one thing remained the same. The mother was almost always to blame in some way or another. Prides's Fall The two inseparable brothers. Infant Mor...
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We are finally getting to one of the ballad types and topics that made me realize how much potential lay in these old songs…. Monstrous births. Or, to be clear, that's how they were marketed at the time. They were actually an overall mix of true accounts of birth defects and used the idea of deformity as a direct metaphor. Either which way it went, one thing remained the same. The mother was almost always to blame in some way or another. Prides's Fall The two inseparable brothers. Infant Mor...
Episode 8: F'boys, or who's gonna take care these kids?
Bawdy Ballads
28 minutes
3 years ago
Episode 8: F'boys, or who's gonna take care these kids?
Welcome back everyone! Today we'll talk about those timeless fboys, and how people manage when they fall victim to them. Bawdyballads.com What's an Fboy? The lover and the trickster Kentish Dick: or the Lust Coachman of Westminster. Old Slang for Testicles A trial of skill, performed by a poor decayed gentlewoman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bawdyballads/messageSupport the show
Bawdy Ballads
We are finally getting to one of the ballad types and topics that made me realize how much potential lay in these old songs…. Monstrous births. Or, to be clear, that's how they were marketed at the time. They were actually an overall mix of true accounts of birth defects and used the idea of deformity as a direct metaphor. Either which way it went, one thing remained the same. The mother was almost always to blame in some way or another. Prides's Fall The two inseparable brothers. Infant Mor...
