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Tom Dawe


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in Long Pond, Newfoundland, Canada
October 24, 1940


Tom Dawe, CM ONL (born October 24, 1940) is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador. Born in Long Pond, Conception Bay, Newfoundland (present-day Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), Dawe has written poetry and children's literature for many years. He is also a visual artist. His work often draws on folklore, mythology, autobiography, and Newfoundland culture, particularly the experience of growing up in a Newfoundland outport community. ...more

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“We children were terrified by the story. We still listened to the old believers, they who were never dismissive, they who were never afriad to entertain the shadow”
― Tom Dawe, Spirited Away: Fairy stories of old Newfoundland
tags: belief, fairies, listening, newfoundland, stories
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“When we were children, everything scared us. The harmless dragonfly, for example, was called 'the devil's darning needle.' The creature hovered all around us int he summertime, ready to sew up the ears and lips of disobedient children. To us, even a common snipe, owl, or bittern calling from the marsh, might be a voice from the other side.”
― Tom Dawe, Spirited Away: Fairy stories of old Newfoundland
tags: childhood, dragonflies, fairies, fairy-tales, fear, newfoundland
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