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Folk Tales of New Caledonia — Part 2: The Cyclone · Kanak Music and Dance · The Rat and the Octopus · How the Takata Bohendiou Read Rain Instead of Fine Weather

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of New Caledonia — Part 2: The Cyclone · Kanak Music and Dance · The Rat and the Octopus · How the Takata Bohendiou Read Rain Instead of Fine Weather Part Two completes our reading of Louise Michel's 1885 collection with the four pieces Part One held back, in the book's own order: her storm memoir of two cyclones lived through at Noumea, her account of Kanak music and the pilou-pilou dance, Charles Malato's animal fable of the rat and the octopus, and the tale of the takata Bohendiou, the healer-seer who read rain instead of fine weather. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - The Cyclone — Michel's own storm memoir: the immense calm, the night the sea and sky merged over Noumea, and the shore the morning after, where an octopus opens its human eye among the shells. - Kanak Music and Dance — the rounds of the pilou-pilou, quarter-tones soft as drops of water on leaves, bamboos struck in cadence, and the great historical dance in which the tribe lives in the sun and dies in the shade. - The Rat and the Octopus — the fable Charles Malato gathered on the great land: a rat who eats the sugar-cane canoe his friends built him, and the kind octopus who carries him ashore and is repaid so badly for it. - How the Takata Bohendiou Read Rain Instead of Fine Weather — the old takata, answerable for his prophecies, promises the tribes a fine sun for their ambush, sleeps three days on niaouli flowers, and lets the cyclone answer for him. The pieces: 01:45 — The Cyclone 10:24 — Kanak Music and Dance 13:55 — The Rat and the Octopus 19:16 — How the Takata Bohendiou Read Rain Instead of Fine Weather Source and rights: Kanak legends and tales as collected by Louise Michel in Legendes et chants de gestes canaques (Paris, 1885), in fresh in-house English translation from the French for this performance. Michel died in 1905; Charles Malato, who gathered the rat and octopus fable printed in her book, died in 1938 (death year re-proved from authority records at the Part One build). The book and its makers are in the public domain. Screened for this shelf and not read: The First Ouainth (meal) of human flesh, set aside by class, as were The War as told by the Kanak of Noumea, The Daughters of the Chief of Belep, The Breaths, and Medieval Customs in Caledonia, each read in full and set aside under this shelf's content screen. With Part One, these two episodes read every narrative piece of Michel's collection that passed the shelf's screen; no completeness for Kanak folklore is claimed — this is Michel's collection, billed as her book presents it. Narrated by Scratch. Music: Tabla Horizon — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Holidays of the World — St Andrew’s Day, Scotland’s Patron and the Cross in the Sky, November 30

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Holidays of the World — St Andrew’s Day, Scotland’s Patron and the Cross in the Sky, November 30 On the last day of November, Scotland flies a flag that began — so its favourite legend says — as a cross of white cloud in a blue sky. St Andrew’s Day honours a Galilean fisherman who became the patron of nations he never saw: Scotland’s national day, one of Romania’s great feasts, a patron’s day in Greece, and, by a deliberate choice of date and emblem, Independence Day in Barbados. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. One note before we begin: the voices of our cast are generated with artificial intelligence. The story begins with Andrew himself — fisherman of Bethsaida, the First-Called of the apostles, martyred at Patras on the cross the tradition set at an angle. Then come the two great legends, told as legends: the monk Regulus, warned in a dream, carrying the apostle’s relics to the ends of the earth and ashore at the Fife coast where St Andrews would rise; and the morning in 832 when King Óengus, outnumbered before battle, looked up and saw the white diagonal cross written in cloud. We follow the day as it is kept: Scotland’s bank holiday (written into law in 2007), the ceilidhs and the Big Hoolie, the saltire on the flagpole — and Romania’s Sfântul Andrei, with its sprouting wheat, its garlic-guarded threshold night, and its name-day tables. Patras honours its patron in Greece; Barbados keeps its birthday under two sugar canes crossed in saltire. And we close with the main point: how the emblem of one humble fisherman became the flag and feast of whole nations. This episode is one of our Holidays of the World — a season inside KacheliTV that travels the calendar the way our shelves travel the map, explaining how the world’s holidays began, how they are kept, and what they mean. In this episode: 1. The Fisherman of Galilee 2. The Relics and the Monk Called Rule 3. The Cross in the Sky 4. Scotland Keeps the Day 5. Romania Keeps It Too 6. The Saint Around the World 7. The Table, the Toast and the Flag 8. The Day Today 9. The Main Point Music: the opening and closing theme — and the short theme between the parts of the episode — is LOVE. The telling itself is carried by the voice alone. Narration: Mira, of the KacheliTV cast. St Andrew’s Day is kept each year on November 30; in 2026 the feast falls on Monday, November 30 — a bank holiday in Scotland and a public holiday in Romania. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. New episodes daily: folk tales, fairy tales and classics from every culture, in complete narrated editions.

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Holidays of the World — Thanksgiving, America's Day of Gratitude, November 26

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Holidays of the World — Thanksgiving, America's Day of Gratitude, November 26 On the fourth Thursday of November, America stops to give thanks. Families cross a continent to reach one table, and before the carving a whole nation pauses to count its blessings out loud. But the day took four hundred years to settle: a harvest feast in 1621, an editor's seventeen years of letters, a proclamation in the middle of a civil war, and one national comedy about a date. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. One note before we begin: the voices of our cast are generated with artificial intelligence. The story opens at Plymouth in the autumn of 1621, where the Mayflower colonists feasted for three days with Massasoit and some ninety of his Wampanoag men, on venison and fowl — a celebration we know from a few lines of one man's letter. We follow the custom as it grows — harvest homes, appointed thanksgiving days, Washington's proclamation of 1789 — and meet Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, whose letters to five presidents persuaded Abraham Lincoln, in October 1863, to fix the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving and praise. Then comes the comedy of Franksgiving: Franklin Roosevelt moved the day a week earlier, half the country refused to follow, and Congress fixed the fourth Thursday by law in 1941. We sit down at the modern table — the turkey's rise, the wishbone's long journey from Etruscan chickens, the marshmallow sweet potatoes — keep the day's customs, from the Macy's parade and the presidential turkey pardon to Friendsgiving and the great journey home, and stand on Cole's Hill in Plymouth, where since 1970 the National Day of Mourning has told the day from the Native side. Gratitude and honest memory, it turns out, can share one day. This episode is one of our Holidays of the World — a season inside KacheliTV that travels the calendar the way our shelves travel the map, explaining how the world's holidays began, how they are kept, and what they mean. In this episode: 1. The Feast at Plymouth 2. Harvest Homes and Proclamations 3. The Mother of Thanksgiving 4. Franksgiving 5. The Thanksgiving Table 6. Parades, Pardons and Football 7. The Wider Table 8. The Other Observance 9. The Main Point Music: the opening and closing theme — and the short theme between the parts of the episode — is Falling Leaves at the Ice Cliffs. The telling itself is carried by the voice alone. Narration: Violetta, of the KacheliTV cast. Thanksgiving is kept in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November; in 2026 it falls on Thursday, November 26. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. New episodes daily: folk tales, fairy tales and classics from every culture, in complete narrated editions.

Holidays of the World — Loy Krathong and Yi Peng, Thailand's Festivals of Water and Light, November 25

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On the full moon of the twelfth month, Thailand sets its lights on the water — and in the north, sends them into the sky. Loy Krathong floats little leaf boats with candles down every river in the kingdom; Yi Peng, the Lanna festival of Chiang Mai, fills the same night sky with rising paper lanterns. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. One note before we begin: the voices of our cast are generated with artificial intelligence. The story opens on the riverbank at dusk, with the whole country kneeling at the water's edge — and reaches back to the festival's tangled beginnings: the Khmer carvers of Angkor, the goddess of the waters who came from India, and the beautiful legend of Nang Noppamas, the lady who is said to have invented the krathong and almost certainly never existed. We take the little boat of leaves apart piece by piece — banana trunk, folded leaf, marigold, incense, candle, a coin, and a lock of the maker's own hair — and hear the two things it says to the water: thank you, and we are sorry. Then we travel the night as the country keeps it: Sukhothai's candlelit ruins, Bangkok's piers, Tak's rivers of coconut-shell lamps, the Noppamas Queen contests. North to Chiang Mai, the temples dress in lamps and the khom loi climb in their thousands. And because the two festivals share one moon and are forever being confused, we draw the line between them precisely — which is which, and where each belongs — before closing with the festivals today, cleaner and more careful than they were, and the main point: gratitude, apology, and the art of letting go. This episode is one of our Holidays of the World — a season inside KacheliTV that travels the calendar the way our shelves travel the map, explaining how the world's holidays began, how they are kept, and what they mean. In this episode: 1. A Night of Water and Light 2. Where It Began 3. The Little Boat of Leaves 4. Thanks Given to the Water 5. The Night on the River 6. North to Chiang Mai 7. Two Festivals, One Moon 8. The Festivals Today 9. The Main Point Music: the opening and closing theme — and the short theme between the parts of the episode — is Gangster Piano Symphony. The telling itself is carried by the voice alone. Narration: Benedetto, of the KacheliTV cast. Loy Krathong is kept each year at the full moon of the twelfth month; in 2026 the festival night falls on Wednesday, November 25, with Yi Peng kept across November 24–25 in the north. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. New episodes daily: folk tales, fairy tales and classics from every culture, in complete narrated editions.

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Holidays of the World — Gurpurab, the Birthday of Guru Nanak, November 24

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Every year, on the full moon of Kartik, the Sikh world keeps its most beloved day: Gurpurab, the birthday of Guru Nanak — the teacher who taught that humanity is one, and built the lesson into a kitchen that feeds everyone. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. One note before we begin: the voices of our cast are generated with artificial intelligence. The story opens in the Punjab village where Nanak was born in 1469, with the tales Sikhs tell of the boy who questioned the sacred thread, out-gave the governor's scales, and spent his trading money feeding the hungry — the true bargain. We follow him through the enlightenment at the river, his three simple lessons — remember, work honestly, share — and twenty years of journeys on foot beside his friend Mardana the musician, to the farm at Kartarpur where the traveller settled and the first community gathered. Then the festival itself unfolds: the Akhand Path, the whole of the Guru Granth Sahib read aloud unbroken for forty-eight hours; the Prabhat Pheri dawn processions; the Nagar Kirtan carrying the book through the streets; the day of hymns, lamps and karah prasad; and the langar, the community kitchen where emperor and labourer sit on the same floor. We end where the festival does — at the Golden Temple doubled in its pool of lamplight, and at the main point, which turns out to be something you can eat. This episode is one of our Holidays of the World — a season inside KacheliTV that travels the calendar the way our shelves travel the map, explaining how the world's holidays began, how they are kept, and what they mean. In this episode: 1. The Guru's Day of Light 2. Where It Began 3. The Teacher and His Three Lessons 4. The Journeys and the Farmer 5. The Unbroken Reading 6. The Procession Through the Town 7. The Day Itself 8. The Kitchen That Feeds Everyone 9. The Main Point Music: the opening and closing theme — and the short theme between the parts of the episode — is LOVE. The telling itself is carried by the voice alone. Narration: Lulu, of the KacheliTV cast. Gurpurab is kept each year at the full moon of Kartik; in 2026 the festival falls on Tuesday, November 24. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. New episodes daily: folk tales, fairy tales and classics from every culture, in complete narrated editions.

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Holidays of the World — Bon Om Touk, Cambodia's Water Festival, November 23–25

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Every November, Cambodia gives thanks to the water that feeds it. Bon Om Touk — the Water Festival — marks the moment the Tonlé Sap River turns around and flows back toward the sea: three full-moon days of long-boat races, floating lanterns, moon salutations, and the new rice eaten at midnight. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. One note before we begin: the voices of our cast are generated with artificial intelligence. The story opens in a kingdom built on water — the reservoirs of Angkor, the boat battles carved at the Bayon, and the naval victory that tradition lays at the door of Jayavarman VII — and follows the strangest river in the world as it reverses, breathing the great lake of Tonlé Sap in and out with the seasons. We look at the three days of the full moon, at the painted racing boats with their eyes and their bow dancers, at the little banana-leaf lanterns set adrift at dusk, and at the midnight feast of ak ambok, the flattened new rice fed by hand to children beneath the rabbit in the moon. We travel the festival from town to town — the capital's royal riverfront, Siem Reap, the stilt villages of the lake — telling honestly the quieter shape the festival takes this year, and close with its main point: gratitude, rowed down the river and set alight. This episode is one of our Holidays of the World — a season inside KacheliTV that travels the calendar the way our shelves travel the map, explaining how the world's holidays began, how they are kept, and what they mean. In this episode: 1. The Water Festival 2. Where It Began 3. The River That Flows Backwards 4. Three Days of the Full Moon 5. The Boat Races 6. How the Days Are Kept 7. From Town to Town 8. Kindred Water Festivals 9. The Main Point Music: the opening and closing theme — and the short theme between the parts of the episode — is Gangster Piano Symphony. The telling itself is carried by the voice alone. Narration: Orson, of the KacheliTV cast. Bon Om Touk is kept each year at the full moon of Kadeuk; in 2026 the festival days fall on November 23–25. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. New episodes daily: folk tales, fairy tales and classics from every culture, in complete narrated editions.

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Holidays of the World — Shichi-Go-San, Japan's Festival of Seven-Five-Three, November 15

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Holidays of the World — Shichi-Go-San, Japan's Festival of Seven-Five-Three, November 15 Every November, Japan dresses its youngest children in silk and brings them out to be thanked for. Shichi-Go-San — the festival of seven-five-three — honours girls at seven and three and boys at five, with shrine visits, formal photographs, and tall bags of thousand-year candy. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. One note before we begin: the voices of our cast are generated with artificial intelligence. The story opens in the courts of old Japan, where three childhood rites — the keeping of the hair, the first hakama, the tying of the sash — marked a child's safe arrival at each new age, and follows the day as it travelled from court to castle town to every family in the land. We look at why the odd numbers are the lucky ones, at the fifteenth of November's place in the harvest season, at the art of dressing a very small person in very formal clothes, and at the shrine visit itself — the bows at the gate, the blessing described from outside, and the red-and-white chitose ame, the thousand-year candy, carried home in bags painted with the crane and the turtle. We travel the day from region to region — the ages kept differently by place and era, countryside and city, and Japanese families abroad keeping their own November fifteenth — and close with the festival's main point: gratitude for growth, a whole community stopping to honour children for no achievement but arriving. This episode is one of our Holidays of the World — a season inside KacheliTV that travels the calendar the way our shelves travel the map, explaining how the world's holidays began, how they are kept, and what they mean. In this episode: 1. The Festival of Seven-Five-Three 2. Where It Began 3. Why Seven, Five and Three 4. The Fifteenth of November 5. Dressing for the Day 6. The Shrine Visit 7. How the Day Is Kept 8. From Region to Region 9. The Main Point Music: the opening and closing theme — and the short theme between the parts of the episode — is LOVE. The telling itself is carried by the voice alone. Narration: Magnolia, of the KacheliTV cast. Shichi-Go-San falls each year on November 15; in 2026 the shrine visits fall on Sunday, November 15. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. New episodes daily: folk tales, fairy tales and classics from every culture, in complete narrated editions.

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Holidays of the World — St Martin's Day (Martinmas), November 11

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Holidays of the World — St Martin's Day (Martinmas), November 11 Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. One note before we begin: the voices of our cast are generated with artificial intelligence. On the eleventh of November, as the dark comes down early over Europe, the children come out carrying light. Handmade paper lanterns, songs everybody knows, a rider on horseback in a red cloak at the head of the procession — this is St Martin's Day, Martinmas, the feast of the soldier who cut his own cloak in two for a stranger in the cold. In this episode we follow the feast from its beginning to its table: the story of Martin of Tours and the divided cloak at Amiens, told as the tradition has carried it; why the feast falls on his burial day, and how Martinmas once turned the whole farming year — rents, hirings, the slaughter and salting for winter, the first taste of the new wine; the lantern processions of Germany, the Laternelaufen, with their songs and their bonfires; the Martin goose and the bread men of the Martinmas table; and the day as it is kept now, by parishes, schools and kindergartens. Then we travel with it: to the Netherlands, where children sing Sint-Maarten door to door for sweets; to Estonia, where the masked mummers of Mardipäev come asking leave to enter; to Malta, where St Martin's bag fills overnight with walnuts, figs and sweet bread; and to Britain and Ireland, where Martinmas survives in term days, hiring fairs and the weather lore of St Martin's summer. A feast of light carried through the dark together — and of the oldest lesson in Europe: share what you have. This episode is one of our Holidays of the World — a season inside KacheliTV that travels the calendar as faithfully as our tales travel the map, explaining the world's great days as they come round: how each began, how it is kept, and what it means to the people who keep it. Stories in this episode — follow the chapters in your player: 1. The Feast of St Martin 2. Where It Began 3. The Eleventh of November 4. The Lantern Processions 5. The Martin Goose and the Table 6. How the Day Is Kept 7. From Land to Land 8. Kindred November Feasts 9. The Main Point Music: the opening and closing theme — and the short theme between the parts of the episode — is Imperial Violin Masquerade. The telling itself is carried by the voice alone. Narration: Silas, of the KacheliTV cast. St Martin's Day falls each year on November 11; in 2026 the lantern processions walk on Wednesday, November 11. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Complete narrated editions of the folk tales, fairy tales and classics of every culture, in fresh in-house translations — a new episode every day.

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Holidays of the World — Diwali, the Festival of Lights

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Holidays of the World — Diwali, the Festival of Lights On the darkest night of the season, a household sets a small clay lamp on a windowsill — then another, and another, until streets, temples, river steps, and whole neighborhoods answer one another in light. This second episode of Holidays of the World tells the whole story of Diwali: how it began, how it is celebrated, what it means, and how its customs change from region to region. A prince welcomed home to Ayodhya by a city of lamps. Five days that travel from new wealth to a sister's blessing. A goddess received across a clean, painted threshold. And in neighboring Nepal, a festival whose second day belongs entirely to dogs — garlanded, blessed, and feasted, in the street as much as at home. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this episode: 0:48 — The Festival of Lights 4:14 — Where It Began 9:06 — The Five Days of Diwali 13:25 — The Lamp and the Dark 16:40 — How the Days Are Kept 21:00 — From Region to Region 25:23 — Tihar in Nepal — and Kukur Tihar, the Day of Dogs 30:36 — Kindred Festivals of Light 32:23 — The Main Point Sources: this episode is an original KacheliTV script written for this performance. Its account is drawn from the standard references on the festival — Encyclopaedia Britannica's entries on Diwali and Tihar, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, and established published festival guides for the regional customs of India and Nepal. Customs are described as they are kept; no sacred text is read and nothing is preached. Narrated by Felix. Music: Imperial Violin Masquerade — opening and closing theme. Background: Golden Hour Raga, the owner's own music for this episode, woven softly beneath the narration at his direction. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Guernsey Folk Tales — Part 2: Le Faeu Bélengier · Tchi-co · La Bête de la Pendue · The Spectral Cortège · Satan Outwitted · Satan and the Schoolmaster · The Devil and the Tailor · La Délaissance + One More | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Guernsey Folk Tales — Part 2: Le Faeu Bélengier · Tchi-co · La Bête de la Pendue · The Spectral Cortège · Satan Outwitted · Satan and the Schoolmaster · The Devil and the Tailor · La Délaissance + One More | KacheliTV World Classics Part Two returns to Guernsey Folk Lore, the great collection made from the manuscripts of Sir Edgar MacCulloch and edited by Edith F. Carey. Nine pieces come in the book's own order, first from the rest of its chapter of Demons and Goblins, then the whole of its Devil chapter, and last one piece from Story Telling: a will-o'-the-wisp on the marsh, a spectral hound at the old town walls, a roaring rock that warns of storms, a headless funeral procession on a night road, a country girl and a schoolmaster who each meet Satan himself, a tailor who takes the Devil's measure, and the coffer that held nothing but a mallet. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - Le Faeu Bélengier — the marsh flame that bears a blacksmith's name out of the old Norse legend, and the treasure it is said to guard. - Tchi-co, La Bête de la Tour — winter howlings and clanking chains on the old town walls, and a huge beast with flaming saucer eyes. - La Bête de la Pendue — a light that rises over the western reefs and a rock that roars when a storm is coming. - The Spectral Cortège — a funeral procession without heads, met where the road climbs from the Castel toward La Haye du Puits. - Satan Outwitted — a careless Midsummer wish, a field weeded in a day, and a first knot tied in a sheaf of barley straw. - Satan and the Schoolmaster — Pallot holds his schoolroom against a siege, and yields Satan nothing but the schoolyard gate. - Another Version of "Satan and the Schoolmaster" — a boy reads the wrong book aloud, and Satan is set to pitch peas with a three-pronged fork. - The Devil and the Tailor — a gentleman in black orders trousers, and has no legs to be measured for them. - La Délaissance — a father's strong-box, opened before witnesses, holds one mallet and a rhyme. The tales: 01:22 — Le Faeu Bélengier 04:43 — Tchi-co, La Bête de la Tour 07:09 — La Bête de la Pendue 09:01 — The Spectral Cortège 11:21 — Satan Outwitted 16:19 — Satan and the Schoolmaster 19:38 — Another Version of "Satan and the Schoolmaster" 24:14 — The Devil and the Tailor 29:59 — La Délaissance Source and rights: the pieces performed here are from Guernsey Folk Lore (London: Elliot Stock, 1903), from the manuscripts of Sir Edgar MacCulloch (died 1896), edited by Edith F. Carey (died 1935), read from the complete public-domain text at Project Gutenberg. This shelf is Guernsey only; no completeness for the book is claimed. Herodias stands held with sacred material. Part One's exclusions stand: The Invasion of Guernsey by the Fairies, The Fairies and the Nurse, The Fairies and the Midwife, and Le Gibet des Faies are not read. The Legend of the Ville au Roi stands benched pending its by-name screen, and a Recent Appearance of the Devil stands benched after screening; the witch-trial records are not narrated, and the Ghosts, Charms, and Historical Reminiscences chapters stand benched for later parts. Where La Délaissance prints a Guernsey-French rhyme and a Latin will, the performance speaks them as printed. Narrated by Amos. Music: Crimson Peak — opening and closing theme only. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Folk Tales of Slovenia — Part 2 (Doctor Benk)

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Slovenia — Part 2 (Doctor Benk) We return to the Gorjanci Mountains of Slovenia for the second part of the shelf, with one long Slovenian folk tale of the Gorjanci, as collected and told by Janez Trdina. In the days when the great forests of the southern Gorjanci were divided up and the axes sang from dawn to dusk, the widow Belinka kept a forest inn — and could not keep her custom, for her tongue was tied and the drinkers called her house At the Dumb Woman's. Then, one winter's day, a tall stranger in a red cloak came in out of the cold: he drank his litres, played cards with three tiny men out of his bag, and danced with her distaff until the distaff was a girl. Doctor Benk cures one sickness only — sick, weak and crippled tongues — and his fee is a strange one, which he will not take until the other world. Belinka accepts the cure. The gold is another matter. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 02:26 Doctor Benk Source: Janez Trdina (1830–1905), Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih ("Tales and Stories of the Gorjanci Mountains"), first published in Ljubljanski zvon, 1882–88; the tale stands in the 1906 volume (Zbrani spisi II, Ljubljana, 1906) — public domain. Fresh in-house translation from the Slovenian, made for this programme. The tale stands whole, as printed: the Devil of the tale is unmasked only at its close, as in the source, and the cross and the holy water that drive him out are the folk furniture of a temptation tale, carried as printed. Just after the opening theme and introduction, before the tale, you will hear this episode's short spoken break, placed there by design. The register for this part, in book order and by name. Screened in the 1906 volume and excluded whole, and not read: The Mountain Girl, Barabbas, Mr Know-All, Miss Cizara and Hudobica — enacted killing, beatings, a devil-pact and magical harm stand at their centres. The Advocates and Under the Pear Tree stand benched under the shelf's sacred-texts park — sacred figures walk in them as characters — and were not used; the volume's opening saint and hermit legends (Saint Felix, Saint Felix II, the Hermit Felix, and Peter and Paul) stand fenced in the same class, and The Enchanted Walnut stands excluded by name from the Part 1 screen. Doctor Prežir passed its screen with a passage note and stands banked for Part 3. From the 1904 volume, told in Part 1: The Young Lady, The Gold-Feather Bird and The Deaf Forest; its excluded and benched register stands as published there. This programme bills itself as Slovenian folk tales and legends of the Gorjanci Mountains, as collected and told by Janez Trdina — never as a complete Trdina and never as a survey of the whole country. Narrated by Morgana. Music: opening and closing theme only — Lightning Crash. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Holidays of the World — Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), November 1–2

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Holidays of the World — Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), November 1–2 On the first two days of November, in Mexico and wherever Mexican families have carried their traditions, the dead come home — not as ghosts to be feared, but as guests. This first episode of our new shelf, Holidays of the World, tells the whole story of the Day of the Dead: how it began, how it is celebrated, what it means, and how its customs change from town to town. An Aztec feast of flowers that met the Catholic calendar. Two days, one for the children and one for the grown. An altar where every candle, marigold, loaf, and photograph is set out for a reason. A candlelit island in a Michoacán lake, giant kites over Guatemala, and the most hopeful answer to death that any culture has built: the dead are not gone. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this episode: 0:45 — The Day of the Dead 4:07 — Where It Began 8:23 — Two Days in November 11:01 — The Ofrenda 17:57 — How the Days Are Kept 23:19 — From Town to Town 28:23 — Kindred Days Around the World 31:14 — The Main Point Sources: this episode is an original KacheliTV script written for this performance. Its account is drawn from the standard references on the festival — UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (the Indigenous Festivity Dedicated to the Dead, inscribed 2008), Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino, and the World History Encyclopedia. Customs are described as they are kept; no sacred text is read and nothing is preached. Narrated by Magnolia. Music: Imperial Violin Masquerade — opening and closing theme. Background: Bolero de Medianoche, the owner's own music for this episode, woven softly beneath the narration at his direction. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Albanian Folk Tales — Part 2: Fatime · The Shoes · The Devils Duped | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part Two returns to Dozon's Contes albanais: three tales in the book's own order, heard here in a fresh English translation from his French — a youngest sister whose envious sisters send her three poisoned gifts, and whom the forty thieves who shelter her bring back to life each time the gift is taken away; a widowed king who means to marry his own daughter, because the dead queen's shoes fit her feet, and who loses her to a great candlestick; and a transformation chase that ends with a fox among the hens. These three tales were held at this shelf's first screen, and were admitted by the channel's ruling; they are told here exactly as Dozon printed them, nothing softened, nothing cut, nothing added. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - Fatime — the youngest of three sisters, and the most beautiful; sheltered by forty thieves, she is three times sent a poisoned gift by her envious sisters — a necklace, a sieve of gold sequins, a ring — and three times restored when the gift is taken away; the third time, a king finds her in her coffin, and the ring at last falls from her finger. - The Shoes — a dying queen charges her husband to marry only the woman her shoes fit perfectly; they fit his own daughter, who buys her escape with two great screw-closing candlesticks, hides herself in one, and is sold with them to a young prince. - The Devils Duped — a son who has learned devilry from the devils outruns his masters through shape after shape — horse, mule, hare, apple, millet — and ends the chase as a fox among the hens they have become. The tales: 01:59 — Fatime 09:33 — The Shoes 18:45 — The Devils Duped Source and rights: Albanian tales from Auguste Dozon's Contes albanais, recueillis et traduits (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1881), in fresh in-house English translation from the French for this performance. The copy used is the open Internet Archive copy of the 1881 volume (contesalbanais00dozogoog); Dozon (1822–1890) collected the tales in Epirus, and the volume is in the public domain. The three tales — Fatimé (No. I), Les souliers (No. VI) and Les diables dupés (No. XVI) — were held at this shelf's first screen and admitted by name by the channel's ruling; they are narrated as printed. Screened and not read: the volume's other seventeen tales stand excluded by name in the shelf's register, and the supplement fable L'araignée et le bourdon stands benched on length; Dozon's preface, his comparative notes and the Përmet customs chapter are scholarly apparatus and are not narrated. No completeness for the volume is claimed. Narrated by Lulu. Music: Crimson Peak — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Northern Tales — Part 22: The Lazy Man and Yaghishna · Póndandi · Lay of Bóndandi · Kundirik · The Shaman and the Black Dog · The Stepmother and her Stepdaughters · Gege-Woman | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Seven pieces in the book's own order — the Anadyr tales begin. A Yukaghir man so lazy he will not rise even when Yaghishna comes to the door shoots the one shot that can kill her, and is cured of lying down. Póndandi, the silent suitor, answers nothing at all — and brings home a bear, an elk, a mountain-sheep, a whole mountain moved to the door, and a valley full of reindeer. His lay follows, sung on the Kolyma: the same Bóndandi, hiding from the girls in his cabin. Kundirik, the prayed-for boy, is promised to the Bear and tricks his way free. A shaman keeps watch over a village vanishing night by night, and meets a black dog in the darkness. A stepdaughter descends to the lower world, cleans the stables and the little house nobody else would touch, and comes home with a silver net. And Gege-Woman catches fish on the seashore while three brothers climb to the roof against their father's word. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 01:44 A Yukaghir Tale — The Lazy Man and Yaghishna 06:09 A Chuvantzi Tale (Anadyr version) 13:10 Lay of Bóndandi (Kolyma version) 14:28 Story about Kundirik 19:25 A Markova Tale — The Shaman and the Black Dog 23:09 Story of a Stepmother and her Stepdaughters 28:57 Story of Gege-Woman Source: Waldemar Bogoras, Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (1918), Jesup North Pacific Expedition — public domain. Narrators as printed: the Yukaghir tale by Anne Pleskov, an old Russianized native woman, Vakarena, the Anadyr River, autumn 1899; Póndandi by Anne Chain, Markova, summer 1896; the Lay by Helen Dauroff, Pokhotsk, winter 1900; Kundirik by Barbara Karyakin, Marinsky Post, fall 1900; the Shaman, the Stepmother, and Gege-Woman by Mary Alin, Markova, recorded by Mrs. Sophie Bogoras, winter 1900. Fresh in-house rendering, heard as screened: Póndandi and Gege-Woman stand whole; in the Yukaghir tale the aim is rendered without the anatomical word, the chopping is passed over for the burning, and the dish-children's fate is not carried; in Kundirik the Bear's end is told plainly and one whole errand is not carried; in the Shaman the gore detail and the closing blow are not carried; in the Stepmother the reported harshness is softened. After the first tale and its music you will hear this episode's short spoken break, placed there by design. Left out of this part, in book order and by name: Story of Magus (N.164) is excluded whole at this part's full-read screen — its second half is an enacted killing of the spirit's children, heads set in a row, and no cut leaves the tale standing. The shelf claims no completeness that its register contradicts. Music: opening and closing theme, with short separators between the tales — Crimson Peak. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Folk Tales of Senegal — Part 1: The Sage Who Never Lied · The Man Who Had Many Friends · The Three Imbeciles · The King and the Fool · Silver and Gold · Served by the King · The Horseman and His Horse | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part One opens a new shelf: Senegambian tales from Bérenger-Féraud (1885) and Franz de Zeltner (1913), heard here in fresh English translations from the French — a sage whose careful "perhaps" defeats a ruler's trap, a rich man who tests a hundred friendships in a single night and finds one, and a horseman who learns in captivity what his horse could have taught him in freedom. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - The Sage Who Never Lied — Mamadi has never lied, and the Almamy lays a trap to make him: a message to be carried word for word, and a foot already in the stirrup. - The Man Who Had Many Friends — Mafal feigns disgrace and begs his hundred friends for horse, gun and canoe; all refuse with insults except Samba, a kinsman of the Brak, on his own wedding day. - The Three Imbeciles — three simpletons are set to fish, to fetch bark and to gather baobab fruit, and each comes back empty-handed for the same reason: he did not think of it. - The King and the Fool — King Nouman's fool will not drink, will not take the king's gifts, and counts the five fools of the court. - Silver and Gold — a wife escapes a wicked general, then makes him walk at her camel's bridle; she lets fall silver, and finds gold. - The Man Who Made the King Serve Him — Boubakar wagers ten oxen that the proud king, who obeys nobody, will work for him within three days — with a staff, and a dish of couscous. - The Horseman Who Cared Badly for His Horse — a careless rider neglects the finest horse in the Fouta; war, capture and a talking horse teach him the price of care. The tales: 02:03 — The Sage Who Never Lied 07:09 — The Man Who Had Many Friends 15:28 — The Three Imbeciles 19:11 — The King and the Fool 21:24 — Silver and Gold 24:05 — The Man Who Made the King Serve Him 28:24 — The Horseman Who Cared Badly for His Horse Source and rights: Senegambian tales from Bérenger-Féraud (1885) and Franz de Zeltner (1913), in fresh in-house English translation from the French for this performance. Bérenger-Féraud's Recueil de contes populaires de la Sénégambie (Paris, 1885; the author died in 1900) and Zeltner's Contes du Sénégal et du Niger (Paris, 1913; the author died in 1930) are in the public domain. Zeltner's tales were collected 1904–1912 in the colony of Haut Sénégal-Niger and are not individually provenance-tagged, as his book states. Screened in full for this part and not read: from Zeltner, The Chicken Leg and The Three Chests; from Bérenger-Féraud, Comparison of a Father's Love and a Son's Ingratitude, The Three Sons of Noah, The Guilty Brother-in-Law, The Indiscreet Friend, The Legend of Malik Si and The Serpent of the Bambouk — each set aside under this shelf's content screen, as were the items the screen already excluded by name (the monkey and the wolf, the heir whose portion was sleep, the two friends parted by a mistress, Cothi-Barma, the two Peul friends), the whole of Bérenger-Féraud's Part III and the Koli material, the war legends and ballads, the Bagnoun lion hunt, and Zeltner's Soundiata block, The Old Mare, The Hyena and the Hare and Little Ballah. No completeness for either volume is claimed. Narrated by Orson. Music: Crimson Peak — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Māori Tales of New Zealand — Part 1: Hine-Moa, the Maiden of Rotorua · Kahukura and the Fairies · Te Kanawa's Adventures with the Fairies · The Sick Cured · Pou-ranga-hua and Kahu-kura | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part One opens a new shelf: the Māori tales of Aotearoa, heard in the English of two great nineteenth-century collections — a maiden who swims a lake at night, guided only by a flute; a man who learns the stitch of net-making by hauling with the fairies until dawn; a chief whose visitors go away content with the shadows of his jewels; the one hundred and forty sick men revived with warm water; and the father who rode a whale and flew on borrowed birds to bring the kumara home. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - Hine-Moa, the Maiden of Rotorua — Tutanekai plays his horn and flute from the balcony on Mokoia island, and Hine-Moa, whose family keeps every canoe hauled up on the shore, swims Lake Rotorua in the dark with six gourds for floats, steering by the music alone. - Kahukura and the Fairies — on the shore at Rangiaowhia, Kahukura hauls the fairies' mackerel net beside them all night, and delays them past sunrise with a slip-knot that will not hold, until the abandoned net teaches his people the stitch. - Te Kanawa's Adventures with the Fairies — a fairy troop crowds round the hunters' fire on Puke-more to look at the handsome chief; he offers them his carved jasper ornaments, and they take the shadows only, and vanish content. - The Sick Cured — the one hundred and forty men of Pou-heni lie on the coast with their teeth set fast, dying of want, until warm water, poured between pried-open teeth, revives them and they rise and join the party. - Pou-ranga-hua and Kahu-kura — told twice over: a father whose baby has rejected the kaha-wai liver follows his stolen canoe in one made of a duck's feather, rides a whale, and plants the two kumara roots; and again, flying to Hawa-iki on two borrowed pet birds to bring back seven varieties of kumara. The tales: 01:58 — Hine-Moa, the Maiden of Rotorua 20:08 — Kahukura and the Fairies 26:33 — Te Kanawa's Adventures with the Fairies 32:13 — The Sick Cured 34:10 — Pou-ranga-hua and Kahu-kura Source and rights: Māori tales from John White's Ancient History of the Maori (1887–90) and Sir George Grey's Polynesian Mythology (1855). The three Grey tales and the two White tellings are read from the public-domain English texts of those books, lightly cleaned of scan noise; Grey died in 1898 and White in 1891. Screened for this part and not read: the rest of Grey's collection stands parked or set aside by class — the Rangi and Papa cosmogony, the Maui, Tawhaki and Rupe cycles, the murder and revenge tales, the war and voyage cycle, and the sorcery tales; White's Kahu-ngunu and Rongo-mai-wahine cycle stands held, and his remaining volumes are set aside under this shelf's content screen. No completeness for either work is claimed; this part is the five tellings named above. Narrated by Magnolia. Music: Lightning Crash — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Folk Tales of New Caledonia — Part 1: Idara · The Legend of the Cyclones · The Genie Ondoue · The Young Girls of Owie · The House of War · The Bed of the Ancestors · Guardian of the Cemetery · The Kouindio · Night Tales | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of New Caledonia — Part 1: Idara · The Legend of the Cyclones · The Genie Ondoue · The Young Girls of Owie · The House of War · The Bed of the Ancestors · Guardian of the Cemetery · The Kouindio · Night Tales Part One opens a new shelf: Kanak legends and tales as collected by Louise Michel (Paris, 1885), gathered from Kanak tellers in New Caledonia and heard here in fresh English renderings — an ancient healer's song of the white men's coming, a mother who shelters her sons through the great cyclone flood, a seer who trades her breath to a genie for power, and girls singing the fishing song above the canoes. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - Idara (the Heather) — Idara, healer and teller of the oldest cycle, sings the song of the white men: how the tribes received them as brothers, and what was taken. - The Legend of the Cyclones — when the mountains split and the sea and sky merge, Paila bends over her sons like a cave, and will not watch them die. - The Genie Ondoue — Keidee the seer refuses every suitor and learns the genie's price: power now, and the breath taken in exchange. - The Young Girls of Owie — white feathers in the sun above the fishing canoes; the girls of Owie would rather hear the waves thunder than see the blood of friends. - The House of War — a young chief plots a war for sport, and the old men shut him inside the little war hut until the wind teaches him. - The Bed of the Ancestors — on the mountain of the dead, Thei, whose name means to weep, sings to the sleeping fathers and refuses every offer of the valley. - The Guardian of the Cemetery — old Nechewa keeps the spark of life among those who sleep under the earth and in the branches. - The Kouindio (The Reef) — the reef that stands higher than the chief's houses at low tide, and sings in the evening of an old man and of Moiek the flower. - Night Tales — under the coconut palms, half in a dream, the storyteller explains why no one whistles beneath the rocks: it is not the whistling that draws the mountain down; it is happiness. The tales: 02:10 — Idara (the Heather) 06:43 — The Legend of the Cyclones 11:45 — The Genie Ondoue 14:38 — The Young Girls of Owie 16:51 — The House of War 21:03 — The Bed of the Ancestors 25:17 — The Guardian of the Cemetery 27:28 — The Kouindio (The Reef) 30:47 — Night Tales Source and rights: Kanak legends and tales as collected by Louise Michel in Legendes et chants de gestes canaques (Paris, 1885), in fresh in-house English translation from the French for this performance. Michel died in 1905; the book and its maker are in the public domain. Screened for this part and not read: The First Ouainth (meal) of human flesh, set aside by class, as were The War as told by the Kanak of Noumea, The Daughters of the Chief of Belep, The Breaths, and Medieval Customs in Caledonia, each read in full and set aside under this shelf's content screen. Passed and held for Part 2: The Rat and the Octopus, collected by Charles Malato (1857–1938, death year re-proved from authority records at this build), the tale of the takata Bohendiou, and Michel's essays The Cyclone and Kanak Music and Dance. No completeness for Kanak folklore is claimed; this is Michel's collection, billed as her book presents it. Narrated by Silas. Music: Blazing Fire — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Latvian Folk Tales — Part 1: Brusubarda · The Eagle and the Kurzeme Lad · The Drunkard's Son Becomes a King · The Good Spirit · Five Brothers — the Strongmen | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Latvian Folk Tales — Part 1: Brusubarda · The Eagle and the Kurzeme Lad · The Drunkard's Son Becomes a King · The Good Spirit · Five Brothers — the Strongmen Part One of our Latvian shelf opens Ansis Lerhis-Puskaitis's great collection of 1891: a proud princess married by her father's decree to the first man who comes to the feast, a wounded black eagle who repays three silver bullets with three falls and a bladder full of bulls, a drunkard's son who becomes a king and is found herding his father's pigs, a lazy boy cured by a runaway loaf, and five strong brothers who outrun a princess and carry off a sack of the king's money. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - Brusubarda — a king who has spent half a kingdom on seventy feasts declares that his daughter shall marry whoever comes first to the last one; a poor man comes first, and the princess's schooling begins. - The Eagle and the Kurzeme Lad — a farmer nurses a wounded eagle back to flight and is paid in wonders; years later his son serves the eagle's master, and a ring broken in two must survive a river, a duck, and a wolf. - The Drunkard's Son Becomes a King — a handsome tippler who drank away his father's fortune talks his way into a princess's heart and a crown, falls into robbers' hands, and is recognised at last in a pigsty. - The Good Spirit — a boy of six who will not walk is drawn out of his cart, step by step, by a loaf of bread that will not be caught. - Five Brothers — the Strongmen — five brothers, scattered as servants, meet again on the road: a fir-tearer, a marksman, a whistler, a runner, and a blower; together they win a race, a bride, and a sack of gold. The tales: 01:39 — Brusubarda 07:13 — The Eagle and the Kurzeme Lad 26:51 — The Drunkard's Son Becomes a King 39:21 — The Good Spirit 41:42 — Five Brothers — the Strongmen Source and rights: the tales performed here are from Ansis Lerhis-Puskaitis, Latviešu tautas teikas un pasakas, Part 1 (Jelgava, 1891), in a fresh in-house translation from the Latvian made for this recording. Lerhis-Puskaitis died in 1903; the book and its maker are in the public domain. Screened for this part and set aside under this shelf's content screen, each read in full: Kurbads, The Watchman's Son, Two Brothers and the Enchanted Hare, The Little Duck with the Golden Feathers, One Brother a Fool and Two Wise, The Devil's Lad, The Corpse, and Krišus the Unconquerable. God's Son-in-Law and the Judge, a sacred legend, stands parked and untouched. Every later item in the volume — beginning with The King's Gardener — stands unscreened and unread. No completeness for the volume is claimed. Narrated by Felix. Music: Urgent Rhythms — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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Guernsey Folk Tales — Part 1: The Broken Kettle · Fairy Neighbours · Le Petit Colin · The Fairy Bakers · The Changeling · Building of the Castel Church · The Guernsey Lily · Mermaids + Four More from Demons and Goblins | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Guernsey Folk Tales — Part 1: The Broken Kettle · Fairy Neighbours · Le Petit Colin · The Fairy Bakers · The Changeling · Building of the Castel Church · The Guernsey Lily · Mermaids + Four More from Demons and Goblins | KacheliTV World Classics Part One opens a new shelf: Guernsey Folk Lore, the great collection made from the manuscripts of Sir Edgar MacCulloch and edited by Edith F. Carey. Twelve short pieces come in the book's own order, first from its chapter of Fairies and then from Demons and Goblins: a kettle mended for unseen neighbours, a cart borrowed by night, a fairy servant, bakers who come after dark, a changeling, a church the fairies would not leave where men had put it, the Guernsey lily, mermaids on the sands, hidden treasure, two haunted houses, a dole of loaves, and an enchanted horse. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - The Broken Kettle — two ploughmen find a broken kettle in a furrow, and an unseen voice asks them to have it mended. - Fairy Neighbours — the fairies borrow a cart by night, and always bring it back, its ironwork repaired with silver. - Le Petit Colin — a fairy farm servant who leaves the moment a voice from a haunted hill tells him Grand Colin is dead. - The Fairy Bakers — Petit Colin bakes by night in a farmhouse oven, until the master takes his wife's place at the spinning wheel. - The Changeling — a mother hears her cradle-child speak with an ancient voice, and knows what the fairies have done. - Building of the Castel Church — three nights running, the fairies carry the church's stones and tools away in their aprons. - The Guernsey Lily — a fairy husband leaves his Guernsey wife's family a bulb to remember her by, planted above Vazon Bay. - Mermaids — an old man of the Forest parish sees six mermaids disporting on the sands below Petit Bot Bay. - Hidden Treasures — flames hover over buried gold, and its guardian demon plays shells and trickery against the diggers. - The Spectre of the Grentmaisons — a closed and empty mansion, with fearful noises, strange lights, and a shaggy beast at its walls. - The Dole of Loaves at Le Laurier — a bread charity for the poor, a calf-like spectre laid by prayer, and the night the dole was withheld. - The Enchanted Horse — a white horse stretches to carry a dozen young men, and sets them all down in a muddy marsh. The tales: 01:28 — The Broken Kettle 03:41 — Fairy Neighbours 06:00 — Le Petit Colin 08:34 — The Fairy Bakers 15:28 — The Changeling 18:41 — Building of the Castel Church 20:30 — The Guernsey Lily 22:19 — Mermaids 23:36 — Hidden Treasures 26:57 — The Spectre of the Grentmaisons 29:10 — The Dole of Loaves at Le Laurier 33:54 — The Enchanted Horse Source and rights: the pieces performed here are from Guernsey Folk Lore (London: Elliot Stock, 1903), from the manuscripts of Sir Edgar MacCulloch (died 1896), edited by Edith F. Carey (died 1935), read from the complete public-domain text at Project Gutenberg. This shelf is Guernsey only; no completeness for the book is claimed. Screened for this part and not read: The Invasion of Guernsey by the Fairies, The Fairies and the Nurse, The Fairies and the Midwife, and Le Gibet des Faies, each set aside under this shelf's content screen; Herodias stands held with sacred material. The witch-trial records of the Witches and Witchcraft chapter are not narrated and stand benched, as do the Charms chapter (surveyed, practice-description, not read), the Devil chapter, the remaining Demons and Goblins pieces, Story Telling, and Historical Reminiscences, all held for Part 2. Where the book prints Guernsey-French verse, the performance speaks the book's own English translation. Narrated by Amos. Music: Lightning Crash — opening and closing theme only.

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Turkish Folk Tales — Part 2: The Silent Princess · Kara Mustafa the Hero · The Fish-Peri | KacheliTV World Classics

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Turkish Folk Tales — Part 2: The Silent Princess · Kara Mustafa the Hero · The Fish-Peri Part Two of our Turkish shelf turns to Ignác Kúnos's later collection, Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales, gathered from the storytellers of Stamboul: a princess who will not speak and the prince who crosses three mountains with a talking nightingale to win a word from her, a timid husband whose knife makes him a hero to forty Dews, and a fisherman whose mysterious wife sets the Padishah five impossible tasks. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. In this part: - The Silent Princess — a prince breaks an old woman's jugs three times, and her parting words set him lovesick for a princess who has never spoken; her castle is ringed by the fame of suitors who failed before him, but he brings a nightingale, and holds conversation with a lamp-stand, a wall-stand, and a door. - Kara Mustafa the Hero — the most timid husband in the world draws his rusty knife across spilt honey, kills sixty flies at a stroke and seventy at the second, and has it engraved on the blade; forty Dews believe every word of it, and boiling water, iron balls, and a wrestling bout cannot shake their faith. - The Fish-Peri — a poor fisherman keeps one fine fish alive in a well, and finds his house swept and tidied by unseen hands; when the Padishah covets the fish-peri maiden, she answers each impossible task — a palace in the sea, a crystal bridge, a feast for a whole land, a mule from an egg, and a day-old infant who can walk and talk. The tales: 01:27 — The Silent Princess 21:55 — Kara Mustafa the Hero 35:03 — The Fish-Peri Source and rights: the tales performed here are from Ignác Kúnos, Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales (London: George G. Harrap, 1913), read from the complete public-domain text at the Internet Sacred Text Archive. Kúnos died in 1945; the book and its maker are in the public domain. The shelf's first volume, Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1901), translated by R. Nisbet Bain, stands behind Part 1. Screened for this part and not read: the six remaining tales of the 1901 volume — The Stag-Prince, The Three Orange-Peris, The Horse-Devil and the Witch, The Wind-Demon, The Forty Princes and the Seven-Headed Dragon, and The World's Most Beauteous Damsel — each read in full and set aside under this shelf's content screen, as were the 1913 tellings of The Brother and Sister, Fear, The Three Orange Peris, The Wizard-Dervish, and The Horse-Dew and the Witch; The Creation is a sacred account and stands parked. Held for a ruling and not read: Stone-Patience and Knife-Patience, and The Golden-Haired Children. Excluded by name and not read: The Magic Turban, the Magic Whip, and the Magic Carpet; The Cinder-Youth; Mad Mehmed; The Rose-Beauty; The Serpent-Peri and the Magic Mirror; and The Padishah of the Forty Peris. The four Roumanian Fairy Tales printed at the back of the 1901 volume are Romanian material and are not read here. No completeness for either Kúnos volume is claimed, and every other tale in them stands unscreened and unread. Narrated by Bruno. Music: Blazing Fire — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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