Episode 39 - Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair

Story: "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" by Carole McDonnell
Music: Kerry Kelso
Narration: Steven Mosley
Genre: Fairytale, Supernatural, Romance
Rating: PG

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A noble knight sojourns home, but finds a benevolent spirit shadows his journeys.

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Home lay northward, beyond Palestine and the Great Sea. Colgan rode his faithful bay steadily towards the green fields of Ireland. This worthy knight had fought great battles in the Crusades, with many a friend at his side. Those who had journeyed with him to war against the infidels had died. Now he rode alone, tattered and torn. Yet, solitary as he was, the knight felt that he did not ride alone but that some shadow or spirit rode with him. This in itself was strange to think, for Colgan was not a superstitious man and worshiped our Lord greatly.            

The thoughts that refute or affirm a man’s fancy are his alone, and none can truly say why a man believes the things he believes; but, these were Colgan’s reasons for suspecting an invisible companion: no matter how dark the night, or how dense the forest, a strange light surrounded him. It shone even in the brightest daylight, and at night when he camped, it warmed him and gave him light. This too: it often seemed to him that as he rode homeward, the merry peasants and their richly-dressed princes, the poor bruised and bent serfs and their armor-clad lords, would begin to approach him.  Whether to ask tribute or to threaten harm, he did not know. For always it happened that as they neared him, they would halt suddenly, as if some force turned them aside or impelled them backward. Yes, even those little hamlets where returning crusaders were greeted with honor and laurel, even in these little towns the inhabitants would turn their eyes away from him as he passed by. All this the good knight wondered at. Therefore thought he, “Surely, a spirit rides with me.”

Credits:
"Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" by Carole McDonnell
Carole McDonnell
Dark Parables

Music for "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" by Kerry Kelso
Narration for "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" by Steven Mosley

Works by Carole McDonnell:
The Constant Tower
My Life As An Onion
Wind Follower
Spirit Fruit: Collected Speculative Fiction

Producer's Review of Wind Follower