Talk to your Bees crankie, about bygone superstitions around bees and beekeeping, based on The Bee Boy Song, by British song writer, Peter Bellamy.

Talk to your Bees crankie, about bygone superstitions around bees and beekeeping, based on The Bee Boy Song, by British song writer, Peter Bellamy.

Talk to your Bees crankie, about bygone superstitions around bees and beekeeping, based on The Bee Boy Song, by british song writer, Peter Bellamy.

Talk to your Bees crankie, about bygone superstitions around bees and beekeeping, based on The Bee Boy Song, by British song writer, Peter Bellamy.

Talk to your Bees crankie, about fantastical bygone superstitions around bees and beekeeping, based on The Bee Boy Song, by British song writer, Peter Bellamy. One would tell the bees anything important happening in your life; weddings, funerals, voyages, etc.

Talk to your Bees crankie, about bygone superstitions around bees and beekeeping, based on The Bee Boy Song, by British song writer, Peter Bellamy.

Talk to your bees  is a shadow puppet crankie (see definition below) about superstitions surrounding bee keeping. 

All papercut artwork on the scroll is hand-cut. This piece is normally shared live and in person in a darkened room. 

*A crankie or moving panorama is a scroll of artwork in a box, often illustrating a story or song that it is performed with. The ream of paper, tyvek,  or fabric is rolled around 2 posts, which is then pulled across the front, much like film in an old camera.