Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:39:44 -0500
Subject: Re: PUPT: Can't find-


At 05:30 PM 2/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>I can't find documentation of either of these.  Are they apocryphal?
>
>The word "Marionette" originated in France in reference to the "Little
>Mary"s that were used in nativities in churches.  The term spread to be
>used for all puppets in France. 
>
>When French string puppet shows toured England, the land of Punch and
>Judy, the English thought that "marionette" referred only to string
>puppets.
>
>Thanks,
>Mary
>-- 
>Mary Robinette Kowal
>Other Hand Productions
>http://www.otherhandproductions.com

That's what I was taught in my first puppetry course.  I am pretty sure
that the first reference (little Mary) was cited in Bil Bairds book, but I
can't be sure since someone stole my copy.

Richard B. Johnson
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