I recently found a handsomely bound collection of Kipling's stories in someones trash bin whilst working for Waste Connections here in Oklahoma. Of course I let the customer know they had violated our policies as well as good taste and had to confiscate the material. This has always been one of my favorites from among his short stories. Thanks for doing it, and do you have any shirts!! I am going to look right now
@@EnCryptedHorror well Jasper you just got your newest member anyway and I'll be first in line to buy any kind of merchandise you come up with, although your acting and writing is second to none from what I've seen in this genre, RUclips or elsewhere
Thanks for more great stuff, Jasper. That Rudyard Kipling. He made exceedingly good cakes. He brought us some cracking tunes ("Look for the bare necessities....", "I'm the king of the swingers..."). And he could write a fun werewolf story too.
I'll have to listen once more, at least, as I was interrupted a couple of times. Because it's such a densely packed tale I wasn't able to follow the broken thread of the plot. I think I got the point. There may be Gods and we'd do well to watch our steps in order not to offend them or we'll pay a high price for even unintentional effrontery. Did I get it right, huh, huh? I'm trying to be a better person here, darn it. 😊 Thanks for a fresh story. In 7th grade our teacher read To Shoot an Elephant to the class. I was riveted. I'm riveted to my bed right now. Night night. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.❤
This is a wonderful story...one of my favorites. I've heard/read it a number of times through the years. Your narration made it sparkle and shine for me as if it were brand new. Great job, Jasper Your content advice is appreciated, but so many of these stories have to be accepted and taken within the context of the times they were created. Doesn't make the attitudes acceptable for today, but it's an honest portrayal of past unfortunate attitudes.
@@along5925 Thank you. Glad you enjoyed. Right with you on accepting the stories as a product of their time and culture; not much bothered about giving offence myself. But some people seem to want a warning (especially about animal cruelty etc.) so I'll flag anything that might push people's buttons.
@@EnCryptedHorror I agree. These issues can be distressing and hurtful. I myself am very sensitive to the animal issue and tend to avoid that content. Listening should be enjoyable for everyone. You're wise to continue to flag these stories.
I think I've listened to every one of your videos now and it's time to comment - you are a wonderful storyteller, your voice is perfectly delivered, your accents super well done and it makes me smile when you take the female parts. My favourite spooky story channel by a country mile and I just need you to hurry up with the next couple of hundred please:)
Well done Jasper. Massive thanks. Always struck by how good his stuff is. Also how its emphatically NOT what the critics think it is...Brits all deeply flawed humans. Not heroes. If anything he was most harsh on the English. Seem to remember a story where an English regiment breaks and runs. And leaves us HEeland men and asians to hold the line. 'When we came back to the glen the winter it was turning. Our goods lay in the snow. And our houses were burning. We thought of what we had done far away....and we hung our heads in shame. Gone. Gone all hope of staying. Where was our fierce Highland metal? Gone. Misused in an unjust battle...'
He wrote about what he knew, the things he saw and experienced, obviously from the colonial perspective, but as you say, with a sympathy and respect for the natives and their culture, this story being a good case in point: respect local gods.
@@EnCryptedHorror I think he knew the truth. Without.....the local people.People his kind would have been gone. But...I think he loved and respected them. I think he did. No way to prove this. Don't care. I love India 🇮🇳.....when I had nothing in my life Indian people helped me. Got me support and some money.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story as I have every other one you have done. While I would be perfectly happy just hearing your voice, you have a way of adding just the right touch of music, voices, and other sounds in a way that really brings the story to life! Thank you as always for sharing your talents with us! 🥰
I alway thought it odd that Fleet should have been cursed as a wolf. Surely he should have become an ape or monkey man, a great, rabid Langur. This was Hanuman's agent after all. Thanks so much Jasper. Your productions are always aporeciated. (Leopard spots, Otter mews, Wolf man... I don't know!? Pick a species and stick to it I say...😅) 🐒
DUDE.....freaking PERFECT. I really felt for a second like i was in a Simla hill station....the scent of strong tobacco and yet stronger gin not enough to overmatch the jasmine and sweet pea... Oh sorry, i got a bit confused for a moment. I know colonialism is very rude but i love tales of the raj. It's the perfect setting for a story. You should do by word of mouth where poor Dr. Dumoise dies. While not much of a diagnostician he was a rum chap.
Take THAT, you heathens! Whssshtic! (Whip sound effect). Writing horror as a memoir or diary entry works beautifully I think. So much is left to the reader's imagination to fill in the details. It's quite an art because it doesn't always work. I was going to make a joke about Kipling also making exceedingly good cakes, but instead I'm going to remind people to LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Jasper deserves so much more appreciation ❤
A difficult listen, not least because of what it tells us about attitudes at the time Kipling wrote this. The men in this story may have 'disgraced themselves as Englishmen' with their torture of a disabled Indian man, but there is no doubts as to whose side the reader is meant to be on. The Asian man is, after all, just a 'beast'...
"If we catch him we must take him unhurt" . "Tied him comfortably to a bedstead". "Released him with a sheet to cover his nakedness". Not such terrible torture for a man who has inflicted a dreadful curse on another! ❤
“He is done with Hanuman, but Hanuman is not done with him“ Great quote from RK.
I recently found a handsomely bound collection of Kipling's stories in someones trash bin whilst working for Waste Connections here in Oklahoma. Of course I let the customer know they had violated our policies as well as good taste and had to confiscate the material. This has always been one of my favorites from among his short stories. Thanks for doing it, and do you have any shirts!! I am going to look right now
I haven't got into the rag trade yet. I'm a bit behind with the merch... 😮💨
@@EnCryptedHorror well Jasper you just got your newest member anyway and I'll be first in line to buy any kind of merchandise you come up with, although your acting and writing is second to none from what I've seen in this genre, RUclips or elsewhere
@@BobbyMarcum-nh9lt
Right behind you 👍
Ooh, this is a good ‘un! ❤🐾
A great story made even better by your excellent narration, Jasper. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Kipling was my father's favourite author from boyhood and I inherited his books. Thank you for doing this tale, it brought back happy memories. ❤😊
You're very welcome!
Thanks for more great stuff, Jasper. That Rudyard Kipling. He made exceedingly good cakes. He brought us some cracking tunes ("Look for the bare necessities....", "I'm the king of the swingers..."). And he could write a fun werewolf story too.
Thanks Simon! You've made me want to neck a box of cherry bakewells now 😄
I'll have to listen once more, at least, as I was interrupted a couple of times.
Because it's such a densely packed tale I wasn't able to follow the broken thread of the plot.
I think I got the point. There may be Gods and we'd do well to watch our steps in order not to offend them or we'll pay a high price for even unintentional effrontery.
Did I get it right, huh, huh? I'm trying to be a better person here, darn it. 😊
Thanks for a fresh story. In 7th grade our teacher read To Shoot an Elephant to the class. I was riveted. I'm riveted to my bed right now. Night night. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.❤
Brilliant Jasper!Thankyou !
Thanks!
Thanks for the SuperThanks 🙏
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you Jasper.
You're so welcome 😊
This is a wonderful story...one of my favorites. I've heard/read it a number of times through the years. Your narration made it sparkle and shine for me as if it were brand new. Great job, Jasper
Your content advice is appreciated, but so many of these stories have to be accepted and taken within the context of the times they were created. Doesn't make the attitudes acceptable for today, but it's an honest portrayal of past unfortunate attitudes.
@@along5925 Thank you. Glad you enjoyed. Right with you on accepting the stories as a product of their time and culture; not much bothered about giving offence myself. But some people seem to want a warning (especially about animal cruelty etc.) so I'll flag anything that might push people's buttons.
@@EnCryptedHorror
I agree. These issues can be distressing and hurtful. I myself am very sensitive to the animal issue and tend to avoid that content. Listening should be enjoyable for everyone. You're wise to continue to flag these stories.
I have never heard or read this before. Thank you!
I'm glad! Good one I thought 😁
Outstandingly done! Thank you!
I was thinking earlier today Jasper has a story for us tonight. I know it.And there it was on my phone! I love you Jssper! .
Great story and narration!
I listened to it three times!
Thanks!
I woke up just in time! Thank you!
Good morning!
I think I've listened to every one of your videos now and it's time to comment - you are a wonderful storyteller, your voice is perfectly delivered, your accents super well done and it makes me smile when you take the female parts. My favourite spooky story channel by a country mile and I just need you to hurry up with the next couple of hundred please:)
@@FebrithDarkstar Thank you. That's very kind of you to say. More stories, of course, coming soon 😊. Welcome to the channel 👋
You are balm to my soul ❤
I'm not sure I've ever been a balm before... 😔😄
@@EnCryptedHorror You make me feel comfortable and happy
Encrypted never falls to bring us excellent scary stories.
Wow, that was really morbid
Thanks Jasper ❤❤❤
Well done Jasper. Massive thanks.
Always struck by how good his stuff is. Also how its emphatically NOT what the critics think it is...Brits all deeply flawed humans. Not heroes. If anything he was most harsh on the English. Seem to remember a story where an English regiment breaks and runs. And leaves us HEeland men and asians to hold the line.
'When we came back to the glen the winter it was turning. Our goods lay in the snow. And our houses were burning. We thought of what we had done far away....and we hung our heads in shame. Gone. Gone all hope of staying. Where was our fierce Highland metal?
Gone. Misused in an unjust battle...'
He wrote about what he knew, the things he saw and experienced, obviously from the colonial perspective, but as you say, with a sympathy and respect for the natives and their culture, this story being a good case in point: respect local gods.
@@EnCryptedHorror I think he knew the truth. Without.....the local people.People his kind would have been gone. But...I think he loved and respected them. I think he did. No way to prove this. Don't care. I love India 🇮🇳.....when I had nothing in my life Indian people helped me. Got me support and some money.
@@StephenSinclair-d6n
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I've been known to be "gloriously drunk" on several occasions! 🥃🍷
This was such a treat to wake up to! Thank you Jasper! That was a great story! 🐙
I thoroughly enjoyed this story as I have every other one you have done.
While I would be perfectly happy just hearing your voice, you have a way of adding just the right touch of music, voices, and other sounds in a way that really brings the story to life!
Thank you as always for sharing your talents with us! 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you as always 🙏
Balm to my soul too.
Masterful on all accounts.
I alway thought it odd that Fleet should have been cursed as a wolf. Surely he should have become an ape or monkey man, a great, rabid Langur. This was Hanuman's agent after all.
Thanks so much Jasper. Your productions are always aporeciated.
(Leopard spots, Otter mews, Wolf man... I don't know!? Pick a species and stick to it I say...😅)
🐒
Ah, yes... Fleet. Fleet's in deep D.
DUDE.....freaking PERFECT. I really felt for a second like i was in a Simla hill station....the scent of strong tobacco and yet stronger gin not enough to overmatch the jasmine and sweet pea...
Oh sorry, i got a bit confused for a moment.
I know colonialism is very rude but i love tales of the raj. It's the perfect setting for a story. You should do by word of mouth where poor Dr. Dumoise dies. While not much of a diagnostician he was a rum chap.
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Take THAT, you heathens! Whssshtic! (Whip sound effect).
Writing horror as a memoir or diary entry works beautifully I think. So much is left to the reader's imagination to fill in the details. It's quite an art because it doesn't always work.
I was going to make a joke about Kipling also making exceedingly good cakes, but instead I'm going to remind people to LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Jasper deserves so much more appreciation ❤
A difficult listen, not least because of what it tells us about attitudes at the time Kipling wrote this. The men in this story may have 'disgraced themselves as Englishmen' with their torture of a disabled Indian man, but there is no doubts as to whose side the reader is meant to be on. The Asian man is, after all, just a 'beast'...
"If we catch him we must take him unhurt" .
"Tied him comfortably to a bedstead".
"Released him with a sheet to cover his nakedness".
Not such terrible torture for a man who has inflicted a dreadful curse on another!
❤