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The Spinning Wheel is also the title/subject of a classic Irish folk song by John Francis Waller. [51] [52] A traditional Irish folk song, Túirne Mháire, is generally sung in praise of the spinning wheel, [53] but was regarded by Mrs Costelloe, who collected it, [54] as "much corrupted", and may have had a darker narrative. It is widely ...
In order to appear superior, a miller brags to the king and people of his kingdom by claiming his daughter can spin straw into gold. [note 1] The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed.
The first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales contained a much shorter variant, Hateful Flax Spinning, but it is "The Three Spinners" that became well-known. Origin [ edit ]
A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn. Spinning wheel may also refer to: "Spinning Wheel" (song), a song by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears; Spinning Wheel, a 1984 Chinese film; Spinning wheel (animation), a type of throbber in computer graphics; Spinning Wheel (Asheville, North Carolina), a historic building
The song is performed by Jeffrey Tambor's character Hank Kingsley in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show ("Larry's Agent"), where he creates a more Latin sound to it, hoping to perform tap-dancing along with the song. "Spinning Wheel" appears in the films Indian Summer, Where the Truth Lies, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Elvis & Nixon.
Gibbs is the first person he reveals this to. In the episode "Spinning Wheel," Ducky is revealed to have a half-brother, Nicholas, who is 20 years his junior; his father Joseph and his ex-stepmother, Lorraine, are also introduced in that episode. [23] Ducky owns a Morgan that he restored himself. There is a running gag in which Ducky and his ...
John Varley's 1977 short story, "In the Hall of the Martian Kings" feature several types of creatures on Mars with wheels (for locomotion) or spinning windmills. Piers Anthony 's 1977 book Cluster and its sequels feature aliens called Polarians, which locomote by gripping and balancing atop a large ball.
A spindle is also part of traditional spinning wheels where it is horizontal, such as the Indian charkha and the great or walking wheel. In industrial yarn production, spindles are used as well; see spinning jenny, spinning mule and ring spinning.