A folklore story for Halloween part 2

I love seeing how there are glimpes of your early four-panel style (*punches tree*), peeking through in a story that shaped how you learned to share narratives. Layers upon layers, spooky!!

I love this, thank you so much for sharing with us 🩵 the only man for the job, it seems 😂

I loved this story! The narration was so charming and engaging. Does anybody have recommendations for sites or books where I can read more like this?

Man was so tough he punched a tree clean out

I kind of like how youthful hubris is perfectly fine in this story. "I ignored my elders' warnings and it was all ok" is not a common lesson to pass down

Absolutely fabulous story! I do love how many of these old stories are resolved so quickly haha.

A ghost story with a happy ending, what a treat! Such a clever reversal of expectations too, I love it.

That’s grand. Love the “d’you understand?!” punctuation by the storyteller. I can just hear it.

I loved this so freaking much haha such charm!!

exceptional

Katie I know you have a bounty of interests but boy would I love it if you just did ghost stories all the time

Zoop!

Putting off a job for 200 years that can be done in five minutes!!! Relatable!!! Him fighting the trees, so good. Loved this story!!! So good

I loved this--I'm in such a dark mood today with the remembrances of family members who aren't here anymore, but that image of Ronald Young Allen punching a tree broke that mood and made me laugh out loud. Thank you for this story and your idiosyncracies, Kate Beaton.

That was terrific! Happy Halloween!

This is great. True folktales are just that. We don't have to read into them for deep meaning.

What a swerve!

Is this a shaggy Scotsman story?

Zoop! And it was done.

This is a very motivating story, as something that seems terrifying is just a job you can take care of with a few minutes, once you look into it. Also, I love this very much and feel grateful I get to see it. Thank you.

I love the idea of an omniprescient ghost/zombie that's just like "I have to keep yelling because my future sight has told me you'd be the only foolhardy sumbitch that'd be like 'Weird request but okay!'." The true horror/penance is that omniprescient future sight of repentant zombie ghosts is still going to time things like "Delivery windows". So you can't just chill. Gotta stay half buried and hollerin'.

I appreciate that the ending fits the story - I was a little worried it would be like the "ghost story" I heard about Beethoven's crypt: a visitor breaks in and finds him erasing all his work, and the visitor asks what Beethoven is doing, only for Beethoven to tell his visitor ... "Why, I'm decomposing" (har har)

I love how this is told yarnishly, which is really the only way to do it. Like a lot of decapitation-adjacent folk tales ("don't remove my ribbon!"), the actual climax is kind of... anticlimactic. I think of them as atmospheric, heroic adventure/romance tales with horror trappings more than scary "ghost stories" as such... though there's nothing in the phrase "ghost story" that really demands scariness anyway.

Love it! Absolute cinema

My goodness, I love this.