SC - Stag that Bleeds Red Wine Soteltie

[L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt]

Hello folks! I just talked to Master Dyfan ap Iago last night, and got the
"scoop" about the bleeding stag soteltie. Here it is:

He did a paper mache casting of a life-sized deer target (his father had one
to practice archery on). He built an internal framework with the help of his
friend Seppo. This held the bag from a "red wine in a box". There was a
metal tube in the breast (internally) which guided the arrow. The arrow was
implanted in the breast in the mid-region of the plastic bag of wine, and
left there. When it was pulled out, gravity kicked in and the wine flowed
out the tube.

The paper mache was covered in candy (sugar)paste, which was rather more
liquid than usual due to a shortage of gum tragacanth, so that it was
essentially the consistency of cream cheese. He had a real set of antlers
attached, and attached to those was a crown, since this was the Prince of
the Forest, come to offer himself so that the Kings of the East and Middle
would stop fighting. Since The Prince was a magical being, the wound was not
fatal. It appears that he managed to survive three such attacks before his
swan song at pennsic, after which he mysteriously went up in a puff of flame
at a campfire. Apparently, burned sugar paste smels like roasting marshmallows. 

And that's the story, true, unembelished, and devillishly clever. Dyfan will
be online soon, and we hope he will join us in this religous community. He
must be somewhere in the hierarchy of the Church. He probably ranks around
Arch Bishop!

Aoife 

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