Myth!Halp

[x_los]

Damn: you know those myths/folk-tales with Voice Stealers? Like the things that take your cleverness in a sort of Anansi sense--your silver tongue, the sound and the phraseology--like start by repeating and then just take the voice and leave you without one? I can't FIND any of those stories, and yet I KNOW I've heard of them!

Midnight made me think of that whole thing, and I'm almost certain it must have an entry on the Aarne-Thomspson classification system, I just can't find the damn thing!

Augh! Can anyone help me out/back me up here? Even just 'you're not crazy, I vaguely remember that too!' would be good.

Comments

[chickenamu.livejournal.com]

My first thought was "Hush", the Buffy episode where the gentlemen steal everyone's voice. It doesn't look like that was taken from any particular myth or fairy tale though.

:/

[x-los.livejournal.com]

It IS a good ep, though. Heeeey. I'm at Kaldis. Where are yooou?