tale tellers

Persons said to have been formerly hired to tell wonderful stories of giants and fairies, to lull their hearers to sleep.

Talesman ; the author of a story or report: I'll tell you my tale, and my talesman.

Tale bearers ; mischief makers, incendiaries in families.

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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