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Looking for a story to fall asleep to, to ride with on a long drive, or to share at bedtime? Start here.

We read the folk tales and classics of every culture on Earth — complete and unabridged, never excerpts — in fresh English translations, performed by our cast of voices. The fairy tales of Ireland and Japan. The legends of India and Nigeria. Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Cherokee, the Norse — and the Russia of Pushkin and Krylov. The stories your grandmother knew, and stories from shores you've never heard — every culture in the spotlight, no one missed.

New tales arrive every week. Pick a shelf, press play, and let the world's grandmothers talk you to sleep.

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  • S66 · E1
    October 20 · 16 min

    Folk Tales of Afghanistan — Part 1 (The Miserly Akhoond)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Ten popular tales of the Pathans of the Bannu valley, on the Afghan frontier, collected and translated by S. S. Thorburn and published in his Bannú; or, Our Afghan Frontier (London, 1876). Thorburn, the district's settlement officer, tells how every village had its wits who had studied the story-telling art, and out of the large number of tales he collected he condensed and translated fifty of the shortest and most original. Part 1 tells the first ten of his first class, the humorous and moral tales, in the book's own order. A few tales of the chapter that turn on bloodshed are left untold, as this programme leaves such tales aside; they are named in this shelf's canon, and no completeness is claimed for the chapter. In this episode: 0:00 Introduction 1:43 The Miserly Akhoond 4:39 The Prophet Proved 5:16 The Silent Princess 7:09 Charity Rewarded 7:56 A Miser's Proof 8:28 The Skilful Physician 9:47 What Not to Trust 11:09 Avarice versus Religion 12:00 The Test of Friendship 13:06 A Good Liar An instrumental theme, "Tampa Across the Water 2", is heard at the opening and at the close. Narrated by Benedetto. The reading texts are fresh in-house renderings of Thorburn's printed tales. Source: S. S. Thorburn, Bannú; or, Our Afghan Frontier (1876), public domain — lawful copy: the Internet Archive. Part 2 returns to the same chapter for more of the popular tales of the Afghan frontier.

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  • S10 · E4
    October 20 · 18 min

    Heer Ranjha — Part 4 of 9 (Found in the Forest · A Marriage Is Proposed · Heer Is Married to Saida)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The classic Punjabi romance of Heer Siyal of Jhang and Dheedo Ranjha of Takht Hazara, from Heer (1766), the beloved verse epic of Waris Shah — the tale of a flute-playing cowherd, a proud and fearless heroine, and a love that defied two villages. Retold in fresh English. This episode: Chuchak finds the lovers together in the forest, and the scandal can no longer be hidden; the tribe assembles and, refusing the shepherd Ranjha, betroths Heer to Saida of the Kheras; Heer trades defiance with her sisters-in-law by letter and begs Ranjha to flee with her — and the wedding ceremonial carries her, unwilling, to the Khera house. Texts: Waris Shah, Heer (1766), public domain. This retelling is a fresh in-house English rendering; the meaning crib of record is Charles Frederick Usborne's public-domain English prose translation (1901). KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S42 · E7
    October 20 · 29 min

    Folk Tales of the United Kingdom — Part 7 (Gobborn Seer · Lawkamercyme · Coat o' Clay · Scrapefoot · A Son of Adam)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of the United Kingdom continues with five more tales of England and Scotland as Joseph Jacobs collected them in his More English Fairy Tales (London, 1894). They are read here complete, exactly as written. In Gobborn Seer, Jack is sent to sell a sheepskin and to bring back the skin and its price together, and the witty girl who washes at the bridge solves it for him by washing the wool out of the skin; she marries him, and when Gobborn Seer has built the king a castle that is to outshine all others, it is her wit again — a message of "Crooked and Straight" — that brings father and son safe home. Lawkamercyme is a tale in verse: an old woman falls asleep on the king's highway on market day, a pedlar cuts her petticoats round about, and waking she cannot believe she is herself, until she goes home to ask her little dog. In Coat o' Clay, a Lindsey fool asks the wise woman to make him wise, and she tells him he will know more than she when he gets a coat o' clay; he tries the drain's mud, the highroad's dust, and the inn's good liquor in turn, and is a bigger fool for each, before she tells him where the only coat o' clay is to be had. In Scrapefoot, the fox Scrapefoot creeps into the three Bears' castle in the wood, sits in their three chairs, drinks from their three saucers, and sleeps in their three beds. And in A Son of Adam, a labourer who curses Adam for the digging he must do is set before a table of good things with one covered dish in the middle that he must not touch till his master comes back. A note on the tales as written. Three moments of the old tales' colour are worth naming plainly. In Gobborn Seer, the king means to take the builders' lives on the morrow lest they carry their art to another king — an intention the housekeeper reports and the tale averts by wit; the king's son, sent on the errand, is shut in a chest with holes bored that he might breathe, and is let free unharmed when Gobborn and Jack are safe home. In Coat o' Clay, the landlord who has let the fool drink on credit kicks him out of the inn door into the road — one farce blow, and the fool gets up and walks home; the tale's sting is the wise woman's closing truth, that the only coat o' clay is the one a man's folk put him in at the end. In Scrapefoot, the Bears talk of hanging and of drowning their intruder and settle for throwing him out of the window; he shakes each leg in turn, finds no bone broken, and gallops home. No word has been altered in any of the five: no period slur occurs in these tales, and nothing in the telling called for one to be softened or set aside. Chapters 0:00 Opening Theme 1:03 Gobborn Seer 7:41 Lawkamercyme 8:47 Coat o' Clay 20:30 Scrapefoot 26:05 A Son of Adam From More English Fairy Tales (1894), collected by Joseph Jacobs — public domain. Tales of England and Scotland as Jacobs collected them; no Irish tales appear on this shelf. Narrated by Mira. Music: opening and closing theme, "Nocturne in 124" — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tales themselves are read dry. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. British folk tales · English fairy tales · British folk tales audiobook · English folklore · Joseph Jacobs · English fairy tales audiobook · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S54 · E2
    October 20 · 20 min

    Legends of Hawaii — Part 2 (A Visit to the King of Ghosts · Maui's Kite Flying)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Two legends of old Hawaii, read whole and as printed. In "A Visit to the King of Ghosts," the spirit of Ka-ilio-hae, who lies as one asleep in Lahaina, journeys through the spirit-land of the island of Maui — past the sports and dances of the ghosts and the three watchmen of the narrow way — stands before Walia, the king of ghosts, and is brought back by his sister to his waiting body, to tell his people all he has seen. In "Maui's Kite Flying," the demi-god Maui makes the birds of Hawaii visible to all who had only heard their songs, and flies his great kite, whose string is the strong olona fibre, over the islands, calling the winds out of the calabash of the priest of Waipio. From "Legends of Gods and Ghosts" (1915) and "Legends of Ma-ui" (1910) — legends of Hawaii collected and translated from the Hawaiian by W. D. Westervelt. Read as printed in the 1915 and 1910 texts. Notes on the reading, at the weight the tales themselves give them: in "A Visit to the King of Ghosts," the third watchman of the king's passage stands with a raised spear, which is never used — the traveller passes by naming the spear; the ghost-sister guides her newly-dead brother with slaps and pushes, as the tale says a new ghost can only move as it is directed; and the games of the ghosts include boxing and wrestling among their sports, named in a list and not fought out. In "Maui's Kite Flying," Maui's earlier feats, such as the snaring of the sun, are named in a few summary lines as background and are not told here; the chapter closes with the demi-god's death in one summary line, with no manner and no act. Other chapters of these books are not read here. Excluded by name from "Legends of Gods and Ghosts": "The Ghost of Wahaula Temple," "Maluae and the Under-World," "A Giant's Rock-Throwing" and "Legendary Canoe-Making." Excluded by name from "Legends of Ma-ui": all chapters except "Maui's Kite Flying," including "Maui Snaring the Sun" and "Maui Finding Fire" — each turns on killing, on beating or on human sacrifice, which this programme does not carry. No completeness claim is made for either collection. Narrated by Violetta. Music: opening and closing theme, "La Rive des Esprits". Chapters: 00:00 Opening theme — "La Rive des Esprits" 01:10 A Visit to the King of Ghosts 10:57 Maui's Kite Flying 🎧 Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/kachelitv/

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  • S23 · E10
    October 20 · 23 min

    Folk Tales of the Philippines — Part 10 (The Reward of Kindness · Pedro and Satan · The Devil and the Guachinango · Juan Sadut)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Part 10 of Folk Tales of the Philippines continues in the book's own order at Tale 22. Three of these four tales turn on a bargain with the Devil — and on the kindness, cleverness, and nerve that beat him — and the fourth on a lazy boy, a kind snake, and a ring that answers questions. In "The Reward of Kindness," Idó, promised to the Devil before his birth, wears the Devil's bear-skin through seven years of wandering, spending a bag of money only in doing good — and an old woman's gratitude, and her youngest daughter's glad consent, finish his story. Told by Elisa Cordero, a Tagalog from Pagsanjan, La Laguna. In "Pedro and Satan," Pedro goes down to hell itself, ties Satan fast to his own rocking-chair, and frightens him with the crosses on his gown until the golden document binding his family is given up and burned. Told by Pedro D. L. Sorreta, a Bicol from Catanduanes. In "The Devil and the Guachinango," a devil who came courting in noble dress is unmasked, jarred, and buried — and the day-labourer hired to bury the jar keeps digging him up to bargain, until the devil's own cure for a princess's headache wins him a crown. Told by José Laki of Guagua, Pampanga. In "Juan Sadut," the village idler, left sleeping beside a snake-hole, receives the snake-king's ring, and with its counsel blinds the king's tiger, wins the dragon's burning stone without meeting the dragon, and answers the one question no one could answer. Told by Nicolas Zafra, an Ilocano from San Fernando, La Union. A word on these tales, told plainly. The Devils' bargains stand as condition and speech — the road to hell is threatened, never travelled by any soul in them, and each Devil is beaten without a blow struck in anger: by kindness faithfully spent, by a chair-rope and a gown of crosses, and by church bells and bluff. Two passages stand at the book's own weight, named here: Piriang whips the unmasked devil with a sting-ray's tail in a single passage before he is forced into the jar, and the king's cure-or-die agreement stands as speech only, never carried out. In "Juan Sadut," the father's resolve to leave his sleeping son beside the snake-hole is stated and undone in the same movement — the snake proves kind, and the boy is never harmed — and the arena fight with the king's tiger is told in two sentences, as the book tells it. One slip of the 1921 printing is corrected in our rendering: at the close of "The Reward of Kindness," the returned traveller comes to the old woman's house, the family the passage is about. The next tale in the book, "An Act of Kindness," stands held at this collection's gate, awaiting the owner's ruling, and Tale 17 remains held, untouched. The book's footnote markers are kept out, and its comparative notes stand in the book, unread here. The book's storytellers, kept with honour: Elisa Cordero ("The Reward of Kindness"); Pedro D. L. Sorreta ("Pedro and Satan"); José Laki ("The Devil and the Guachinango"); Nicolas Zafra ("Juan Sadut"). Chapters: 00:32 — The Reward of Kindness 06:14 — Pedro and Satan 10:25 — The Devil and the Guachinango 17:44 — Juan Sadut Source: Dean S. Fansler (ed.), Filipino Popular Tales, Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. XII (1921) — the tales written down in English by the Filipino narrators credited above; public-domain 1921 edition (Project Gutenberg eBook #8299). The collectors' notes stand in the book, unread here. Our telling is a fresh in-house rendering of the 1921 text. Music: opening and closing theme, "La Rive des Esprits". Thank you for listening — the Philippine tales continue on this shelf. 🔊 The KacheliTV podcast carries a new world folk tale every day — follow the show so the next story finds you.

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  • S65 · E1
    October 20 · 16 min

    Folk Tales of Colombia — Part 1 (The Mother of All Things)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A new shelf opens with ten short texts of the Kagaba — the Kogi people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the north of Colombia — recorded by the German ethnologist Konrad Theodor Preuss during his expedition of 1914 to 1919, and printed with his German translations in the journal Anthropos between 1921 and 1927. The tellers named in the book are the Kagaba priests Miguel Nolavita and Jacinto Garavito of Palomino, and Alfonso Auigi of Noavaka. The English you hear is a fresh rendering of Preuss's German, made for this shelf. These are myths of the world's first ordering. The Mother Sibalaneuman, mother of songs, of the rivers, of the fire and the rain, leaves the songs and dances as her memorial. Sintana has Seizankua blow nine times on the golden flute, and the black earth is made and spread to the horizon, so that the plants come up. Seizankua makes the first iron tools — twice, for the first had no holes to take hold of. Sun-Surli speaks to the directions of the sky so that they do not fall in, and calls the rain and ends it. Taiku fashions all the priests' gold. Namsiku settles where the ant shall live. At Noavaka the Sun-Taiku Mask asks for four days of rain, and the crops are danced to so they do not wilt. And three brief tellings close the part: how the deer were once the daughters of a temple-mountain, and how the white salt and the green salt came down to the people who eat them. Of the texts screened in book order for this part, ten are told here. Set aside by name under the house rule — each because its plot turns on depicted killing, fighting or cruelty, or on matter that cannot be told as printed — are the Fight with Chief Zántana, the Burning of the World, the Flood, Sintana and the Sun, Sintana's Contests with Namaku the Puma, Bunkuéi (both parts), Hiuika Brings the Diseases, Niudlue and His Father-in-Law Taimu, Kasindukua the Puma, Chief Sofigela, Grandmother Suzauban, the Giants Who Tore the Priests by the Hair, the Path of Souls, the Chimila, the War of Kanzibuhu, and the Fights of Namsiku, together with the closing verses of Taiku and of the Salt (Text 61). The ritual songs and invocations of the corpus are not tales and are not counted. No more than that is claimed. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:56 The Mother of All Things 3:28 The Creation of the Black Earth 5:50 The First Iron Tools 6:30 Sun-Surli, Lord of the Directions of the Sky 8:14 Taiku, Lord of Gold 10:07 Namsiku Settles Where the Ant Shall Live 12:03 Nuitaiku, Lord of Rain and Drought 14:01 The Deer 14:41 The White Salt 15:29 The Green Salt Konrad Theodor Preuss, Kagaba texts from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Anthropos XVI/XVII–XX (1921–1927) — public domain. Fresh English translation made for KacheliTV. Narrated by Bruno. Music: opening and closing theme, "The Cello's Unfinished Promise" — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tales themselves are read dry. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Colombian folk tales · Kogi Kagaba myths · Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta · Konrad Theodor Preuss · South American folk tales · creation myths · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S64 · E1
    October 20 · 23 min

    Folk Tales of Brazil — Part 1 (The Little Man · Chico Ramela · The Toad Wife)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A new shelf opens: Brazil, in a fresh translation made for this library from "Contos Populares do Brasil," gathered by Sylvio Romero and first published in 1885. Romero took the tales down from the lips of the people, and his book stands in three parts — tales of European origin, tales of Indigenous origin, and tales of African and mixed origin. The three tales in this part all come from his first section, told in the book's order. This English is new: Romero's Portuguese, freshly translated, with only the printer's accidents of the old scan mended. The Little Man — Dom João, a prince lost in a land of giants, is taken in as a servant, and the giant's daughter Guimara falls in love with him. Twice her father lays impossible tasks on the little man — a palace raised in one night, a garden made of the island of wild beasts — and twice Guimara's enchantment does the work. What follows is a flight of transformations: a stream and a bathing old man, a church and its priest, a handful of ashes. It ends in a homecoming, a promised kiss — and a forgetting. Chico Ramela — the youngest of three brothers wins an eating wager against a princess who feeds her guests into captivity, frees every prisoner in her house, and is robbed for his kindness by his own brothers. In a king's gardens at night he meets the "fierce beasts" that have been wrecking them: three enchanted horses, who ask only for a leaf of cabbage each, and leave him the words that will carry him up the seven staircases of the palace. The Toad Wife — a beautiful voice sings from a lagoon, and the youngest brother marries its owner, whoever she may be: a she-toad. Her wedding present of lace, made in the lagoon, outshines every lady's work in the family — and when she rides to her father-in-law's house in an ox-cart, with a train of frogs behind her, the dinner table has a surprise still to come. Of the book's first section, twenty-one tales were read in full at this shelf's gate. Three are told here. Fifteen were excluded by name under the house rule, each because its plot turns on depicted killing, cruelty or an adultery intrigue — among them "O Bicho Manjaléo," "Os três coroados," and "Maria Borralheira." One, "Dona Labismina," is held for a separate ruling, neither built nor excluded; two more stand benched; and the rest of the book stands unscreened for later parts. No more than that is claimed. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:55 The Little Man 10:06 Chico Ramela 17:27 The Toad Wife Sylvio Romero, Contos Populares do Brasil (first published 1885; fourth edition, Livraria Francisco Alves, Rio de Janeiro, 1907) — public domain. Fresh in-house English translation. Narrated by Madame de Pamplemousse. Music: opening and closing theme, "The Spring Remembers" — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tales themselves are read dry. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Brazilian folk tales · Brazil fairy tales · Sylvio Romero · Contos Populares do Brasil · South American folk tales · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S63 · E1
    October 20 · 19 min

    Folk Tales of Kazakhstan — Part 1 (The Khan’s Daughter)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A new shelf opens. These are folk tales of the Kasak people — the Kazakhs — as Wilhelm Radloff collected and translated them in the third part of his “Specimens of the Folk Literature of the Turkic Tribes of Southern Siberia,” published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Saint Petersburg in 1870. Radloff’s book names this part for the “Kirghiz dialects,” and in his own preface he explains why: the people of the steppe from the Altai to the Ural call themselves Kasak, and “Kirghiz” is the name the Russians and Europeans wrongly gave them. The tales are billed exactly as he presents them, and Radloff’s German rendering is here turned into English. No more than that is claimed. Part One tells one tale whole: “The Khan’s Daughter.” A khan gives his vizier three days to report what two wild geese said as they flew over, on pain of losing his head — and it is the Khan’s daughter who knows, for she has understood the geese: a bad husband, a good wife can nourish. To test her word, the Khan marries her to the worst man he can find, a poor scab-head. What follows is her doing: the well whose water runs mixed with gold, the black-blue horse bought for a clothful of tillas, the stag with a head of gold and hindquarters of silver, the wish of three days and nights when no fire may burn in any house but hers, and a meal on the hunt that wakes her father’s memory. Told exactly as printed, with nothing softened and nothing added: the Khan’s threats are spoken and never carried out; the one knife drawn in the tale is put by, and the stag is given living to the Khan; the old Khan’s death at the close comes after the reconciliation, off the page, in the tale’s own formula. Of the book’s prose tale sections — two hero tales and eleven numbered tales, one of them a set of riddles — eight were read in full at this shelf’s gate. One is told here. One more passed its reading whole and is held for Part Two: “The Child Who Was Apprenticed to the Mullah.” Six are excluded by name under this library’s standing rule that tales built on enacted violence are set aside, not retold: “Kan Schentäi,” “Erkäm Aidar,” “Eshigäldi,” “How the Good and the Evil Were Companions,” “The Scab-Head Who Bought the Dream,” and “The Cunning of the Fox.” Four tales and the riddle set stand unscreened for later parts. No completeness is claimed. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:22 The Khan’s Daughter Source: W. Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Sibiriens, Part III (Saint Petersburg, 1870) — public domain. Fresh English translation for this reading. Narrated by Scratch. Music: opening and closing theme, “The Spring Remembers 2” — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tale itself is read dry. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S40 · E7
    October 20 · 21 min

    Folk Tales of Papua New Guinea — Part 7 (Bídja and the Wallaby · The Óboubi · The Busere-Busere Cause Sago to Grow in Kiwai · Müe · The Dibiri Boy and the Busere-Busere · Tu and the Orordrora's Daughter · The Woman Carried Off by an Óboubi)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Folk Tales of Papua New Guinea continues with eight more tales of the Kiwai Papuans of the Fly River, British New Guinea (now the Western Province of Papua New Guinea), collected by Gunnar Landtman, who lived with the Kiwai in 1910–1912 and recorded them from named narrators, published in his The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans (Helsingfors, 1917). They are read here in Landtman's English text, as printed, by Bruno. In Bídja and the Wallaby, told by Gágu of Mawáta, a wallaby-etengena teaches Bídja fishing "medicine" in a dream, and the Mawáta people eat fish for the first time. The Óboubi, told by Námai of Mawáta, the water beings of Kimusu reef, masters of crocodiles, who wail in the night over a crocodile that men have killed. The Busere-Busere Cause Sago to Grow in Kiwai, told by Káiku of Ipisia, a felled sago palm's top floats from Purütu to Kiwai, and sago grows there ever after. Müe, told by Námai of Mawáta, the great-eared being of the guda-tree at Háemüba, who covers himself with his ears at night. The Dibiri Boy and the Busere-Busere, told by Káku of Ipisía, a lost boy is caught by the sago-making girls and marries two of them. Tu and the Orordrora's Daughter, told by Japía of Ipisía, a tree-being seizes Tu for his daughter to marry, and Tu, mourned as dead, walks home with his wife. The Woman Carried Off by an Óboubi, told by Bíri of Ipisía, a Sümai woman is kept under the sea until her husband dreams where she is. The Hiwai-Abere and the Night Fisher, told by Námai of Mawáta, a hiwai-abere steals a friend's voice in the night and swallows the catch — and why the Kiwai no longer call to one another in the dark. A note on the tales as written. Landtman's text stands as printed on this shelf — his spellings, pidgin dialogue and glosses kept — including Bídja's fishing rite, where he spits the chewed plant on the stone, on himself and on his leg, as the book prints it. The óboubi kill and eat dugong, and their bones lie in circles "in the same way as people arrange skulls which they have captured from enemies" — a simile, as printed; that they sometimes eat people lost at sea is a clause, and no person is eaten in this reading. Their females wear no grass skirt, as printed. The orordrora does not eat Tu — "you no kaikai, I want marry him"; the carried-off woman refuses her captor — "you been steal me" — and goes home with her husband; the hiwai-abere swallows fish, not the girl, and nobody is harmed. Only the main tellings are read: Bídja's shorter second version, and the night-call tale's other versions — one with a fight and a killing, one with a wife carried off and never found — are not read. Other tales of the book were passed over at this shelf's gate for what they carry; no completeness claim is made for the collection. Chapters 0:00 Opening theme — "Glacial Forest 3" 1:17 Bídja and the Wallaby 3:52 The Óboubi 5:09 The Busere-Busere Cause Sago to Grow in Kiwai 6:08 Müe 7:18 The Dibiri Boy and the Busere-Busere 10:38 Tu and the Orordrora's Daughter 12:05 The Woman Carried Off by an Óboubi 14:10 The Hiwai-Abere and the Night Fisher From The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans (1917) by Gunnar Landtman — public domain. Music: opening and closing theme, "Glacial Forest 3". KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Papua New Guinea folk tales · Papua New Guinea folk tales audiobook · Papuan folk tales · Kiwai tales · Gunnar Landtman · Oceanic folk tales · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S51 · E2
    October 20 · 5 min

    Folk Tales of Sudan — Part 2 (Inequality in Life)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! One tale closes this shelf: "Inequality in Life," a Dinka tale of the White Nile from Yacoub Artin Pacha's Contes populaires du Soudan égyptien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1909) — the one tale that remained after Part One told twelve of the book's nineteen, in a fresh English translation for KacheliTV. The book's tales are billed by their collector, their rivers and their book, not as a survey of all the peoples of the Sudan. Abungdit, the first woman, bears twins. When Gurungdit, her husband, comes to give each child his portion for life, she shows him only the fair twin — the dark twin, the one she loves, she hides in her hut. The shown twin receives great possessions: guns, fine food and splendid clothes. The hidden twin grows up with nothing but a spear from his poor mother. He goes to his father's door, and when his father angrily refuses him, he sits down before the door and will not move — evening after evening, morning after morning — until his patience wins him a single gift: a little heifer calf. That, the tale says, is why the Dinka have cattle and spears, while the English have guns and fine things: two peoples who are, in the tale's own telling, brothers — sons of one mother. Passage notes, as told: guns and a spear are named among the gifts and are never used; no one is harmed in the tale. The tale's period colour language is rendered in neutral modern terms, and Artin's scholarly footnote is not read. Five tales of the book are excluded by name under the shelf rule — The Dog, the Cock and the Fox; The Lion and the Hyena; The Hare and the Giraffe; The Hare and the Crow; The Hare and the Ram — and one, The Neighbours and Their Prophet, is held for a ruling. Of the book's nineteen tales, thirteen are told across the shelf's two parts; no completeness claim is made. Chapters: 0:00 Opening theme — "2-20" 0:36 Introduction 1:44 Inequality in Life Yacoub Artin Pacha, Contes populaires du Soudan égyptien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1909) — public domain. Narrated by Scratch. Music: opening and closing theme, "2-20". KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Sudanese folk tales · Sudan folk tales · Sudanese folk tales audiobook · Nile folk tales · Yacoub Artin Pacha · North African folk tales · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S53 · E2
    October 20 · 31 min

    Folk Tales of Poland — Part 2 (The Good Ferryman and the Water Nymphs · The Princess of the Brazen Mountain)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Two more tales from "Polish Fairy Tales" — tales of the peasantry of Poland's eastern provinces as collected by A. J. Gliński and printed at Wilna in 1862, in Maude Ashurst Biggs's English translation (John Lane, 1920). In her preface Biggs tells the reader plainly that she shortened Gliński's tellings for English readers; her shortened English text is what is read here, faithfully as printed. In "The Good Ferryman and the Water Nymphs," the youngest of three ferry brothers ferries a poor old traveller across the river for nothing, and is rewarded with a purse that is always full of gold and, in time, a bride from the waters of the river herself. When a king covets that bride, the ferryman is sent on three journeys on pain of death — to learn the cause of an eclipse of the sun, to bring back a sea-maiden, and to fetch the Self-playing Guitar, whose music raises the murdered, and with them the truth about the king's own crown. In "The Princess of the Brazen Mountain," a kind-hearted prince first gives a forgotten hermit a proper burial, and so wins the magic whip and, from bands of robbers, the seven-league boots and the invisible cap that carry him up the smooth sides of the Brazen Mountain to the bride who flew away on their wedding day. Notes on the reading, at the weight the tales themselves give them: in the Ferryman's tale the two greedy elder brothers come to bad ends that are reported, not shown — one drowned with his ship, one murdered by robbers; the Sun tells how he burned the dragon that attacked him to ashes; the ferryman is left to starve in a treasure vault and is freed; and at the end the murdered late king rises at the guitar's music and his brother, who had caused him to be murdered, falls dead. In the Brazen Mountain tale the magic whip thrashes the robbers and the old miller, and no one is hurt beyond the thrashing. The book's other tales are not read on this shelf. Excluded by name: "Princess Miranda and Prince Hero," "The Eagles" and "The Whirlwind" — each turns on killing, told at length — and "The Bear in the Forest Hut," whose night trial in the hut is a lethal one, and in which a second girl dies of it on the page. With Part 1, three of the book's seven tales are told on this shelf; no completeness claim is made for the collection. A. J. Gliński, Polish Fairy Tales, translated by Maude Ashurst Biggs (John Lane, 1920) — public domain. Narrated by Benedetto. Music: opening and closing theme, "The Longest Night by the River". Chapters: 00:00 Opening theme — "The Longest Night by the River" 01:38 The Good Ferryman and the Water Nymphs 20:02 The Princess of the Brazen Mountain KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Polish folk tales · Polish fairy tales · Polish folk tales audiobook · Polish folklore · A. J. Gliński · Slavic folk tales · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S49 · E3
    October 20 · 22 min

    Folk Tales of the Bakongo — Part 3 (How the Squirrel Repaid a Kindness · How a Child Saved His Mother's Life · The Leopard Is Badly Tricked by the Gazelle, Rat and Frog · The Son Who Tried to Outwit His Father)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Four more tales of the Kongo people — the Bakongo — of the Lower Congo, written down by the teachers and boys of the Wathen Mission School at Wathen, that is Ngombe Lutete in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and around San Salvador, and published by the Reverend John H. Weeks in his "Congo Life and Folklore" in London in 1911, as stories told round the evening fires. With this part, our Bakongo shelf is complete: sixteen of Weeks's thirty-three stories, told across three parts. A squirrel, spared at the traps, repays the kindness twice over — first answering the Leopard's skull-mug boast with a bluff of his own, then scattering the Imps who demand half of Tunga's wife, with a dancing calabash and a swarm of bees. A small boy saves his mother from the pit-trap bargain by turning the bargain on the Imp who made it: the Imp who jumps into the trap becomes, by his own terms, a male animal in it. A gazelle robs the Leopard's plum-tree with a bottomless bag, a palm-rat knocks his head swollen learning the way up, and a frog who is set to watch a hole has pepper blown into his eyes — which is why the frog's eyes bulge to this day. And a son who hides himself as a peanut kernel is swallowed, and swallowed again, until his father opens the fish-trap and finds him, layer inside layer, unharmed. Declared passage notes, exactly as the tales tell them: in "How the Squirrel Repaid a Kindness," the Leopard's eaten-nine-men boast and the Imp's demand for "half of the woman" are threats and bluffs, answered and refused — nobody is eaten, divided or killed, and the bees sting the Imps away. In "How a Child Saved His Mother's Life," the trapped animals are taken home for meat morning after morning, told as a tally, not depicted. In "The Leopard Is Badly Tricked by the Gazelle, Rat and Frog," the Palm-rat's head knocks swollen against the plum-tree — the tale's own explanation of his bump — the thieves caught by the Leopard are "caught and punished," the tales do not say how, and the pepper blown into the Frog's eyes is washed out in the stream. In "The Son Who Tried to Outwit His Father," the swallowing chain is told in clauses, and the son steps out unharmed. John H. Weeks (1861–1924), "Congo Life and Folklore" (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1911), Part II, stories XV, XIX, XXXI and XXXIII. These are tales of the Kongo people of the Lower Congo, billed by their people and their collector — not the whole of DR Congo. Seventeen of the thirty-three stories are excluded by name in the shelf's register and are not told in any part. Narrated by Madame de Pamplemousse. Music: opening and closing theme, "Desert Cello Rhapsody". Chapters: 01:57 How the Squirrel Repaid a Kindness 07:51 How a Child Saved His Mother's Life 12:10 The Leopard Is Badly Tricked by the Gazelle, Rat and Frog 19:59 The Son Who Tried to Outwit His Father Bakongo folk tales · Kongo folk tales · DR Congo folk tales · African folk tales · John H. Weeks · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S61 · E1
    October 20 · 29 min

    Korean Folk Tales — Part 1: Charan

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! One tale opens a new shelf: the first story of Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies (London and New York, 1913), translated from the Korean of Im Bang and Yi Ryuk by James S. Gale (1863–1937), who lived in Korea for many years. Billed by book, authors and translator, as Gale printed them; not a survey of all Korean tales, and no completeness is claimed for one part of fifty-three. Charan — in the days of King Sung-jong, a governor's gifted son dances at his father's birthday feast with Charan, the most famous dancing girl of Pyong-an, famed for her beauty, her singing and her knowledge of the classics. For six years they are never parted. When the father's term ends and the family returns to Seoul, the son hides his heart — until a winter night at the monastery where he is studying, when he steals away and walks five hundred lee through frost and snow, begging as he goes, to find her. Charan's answer to their ruin is a plan built on books, candle-light and her own needle: the Official Examination. A romance of love, loyalty and a master hand, read exactly as printed in 1913. The book's fifty-two remaining tales wait for the parts that follow. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:43 Charan Im Bang and Yi Ryuk, Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Fairies, translated by James S. Gale (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, 1913) — public domain. Narrated by Mira. Music: opening and closing theme, "Napoli in Fiamme 2" — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tale itself is read dry. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Korean folk tales · Korean fairy tales · Im Bang · Yi Ryuk · James S. Gale · Charan · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S60 · E1
    October 20 · 22 min

    Creole Tales of French Guiana — Part 1 (The Dog and the Cat · The Two Cats and the Monkey · The Cicada and the Ant · The Crab-Dog and the Couroumou · The Crab-Dog Who Lost His Tail · The Earthen Pot and the Iron Pot)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A new shelf opens with six tales and fables in the Creole of Cayenne, from the first book ever printed in that language: Alfred de Saint-Quentin's "Introduction à l'histoire de Cayenne," published at Antibes in 1872, with the fables of his brother Édouard. Saint-Quentin had lived twenty years of his manhood in French Guiana, and he took these pieces down from the storytelling of the colony — they are heard here in a fresh English translation made for this programme, from the Creole texts and the French versions printed facing them in the book. The dog and the cat were once neighbours and friends — until the cat discovered the way in through the roof, and a little pot of butter acquired three godchildren named Beginning, Middle and The End. A monkey judge settles a quarrel over a cheese; a cicada who sang all summer calls on the ant; a crab-dog flatters a cheese out of the couroumou's beak, and another tries to talk his whole nation out of their tails; and an earthen pot takes to the road with an iron one. Alfred de Saint-Quentin (died 1875), "Introduction à l'histoire de Cayenne" (Antibes: J. Marchand, 1872) — public domain. These are Creole tales of Cayenne from that one book, billed by their collector and their book — not a survey of the whole of French Guiana. Three of the book's twelve pieces were set aside under the shelf's content register, one is held for a ruling, and two are songs; the full register is kept with the shelf's canon. Narrated by Violetta. Music: opening and closing theme, "La Partenza 2". Chapters: 01:27 The Dog and the Cat 14:42 The Two Cats and the Monkey 16:08 The Cicada and the Ant 16:38 The Crab-Dog and the Couroumou 18:44 The Crab-Dog Who Lost His Tail 20:14 The Earthen Pot and the Iron Pot French Guiana folk tales · Creole tales · Cayenne Creole · Caribbean folk tales · Alfred de Saint-Quentin · animal fables · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S59 · E1
    October 20 · 24 min

    Folk Tales of Czechia — Part 1 (Sleepy John, Kojata, The Waternick)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A new shelf opens with three tales told whole from "Czech Folk Tales," selected and translated by Dr. Josef Baudiš and published in London in 1917. Baudiš gathered his tales from the printed collections of Bohemia and Moravia — Kulda's Moravian tales, Tille's tales from Moravian Wallachia, and Kubín's tales of the Kladsko country — and his English is what is read here, faithfully as printed. The book holds twenty-three tales; three are told in this first part, and no more than that is claimed. Sleepy John — a lad who can sleep anywhere at all is shut in a beer cask by mischievous farmers, wins three magic gifts from a hermit, and follows a queen who dances away twelve pairs of shoes every night. Kojata — a young prince, promised before his birth to the sorcerer who seized his father by the beard at a well, is saved by the sorcerer's own youngest daughter, known by a tiny fly under her left eye. The Waternick — two children are carried under the pond by the water-sprite who keeps human souls shut under cups, and find a way to free the souls, and themselves. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:05 Sleepy John 10:16 Kojata 17:14 The Waternick Josef Baudiš, Czech Folk Tales (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1917) — public domain. Narrated by Benedetto. Music: opening and closing theme, "Istanbul Cello Nocturne" — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tales themselves are read dry. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Czech folk tales · Bohemian folk tales · Moravian folk tales · Czech fairy tales · Josef Baudiš · Slavic folk tales · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S58 · E1
    October 20 · 28 min

    Tales of the Mossi — Part 1 (Njaka's Daughter and Somba · Katere, Somba's Riding Horse · Somba, Uobogo and Jugumde · Somba, Katere and Baga)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Four tales of Somba the hare and Katere the jackal from the Mossi country of the Volta plateau, in what is today Burkina Faso. Somba courts Njaka's daughter with three impossible bride-gifts — a wild buffalo's milk, a panther's skin and an elephant's tooth — and is refused all the same. He rides to the great market at Wagadugu on Katere's back, saddle, bridle and all. He has a whole field cleared, sown, weeded and harvested without raising a hand to the work. And in the last tale a partnership breaks up over stolen honey, which is why the hare has only a stump of a tail to this day. Source: Leo Frobenius, "Atlantis: Tales from the West Sudan" (Erzählungen aus dem Westsudan), Atlantis Vol. VIII (Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1922), Chapter VIII, "Tales of the Mossi" — Tales 99, 100, 105 and 106, read in book order in a fresh English translation from the German made for this episode. Public-domain text; the reading follows the Internet Archive copy of the 1922 edition. Notes on the reading: the animal names are the book's own, glossed as its appendix gives them — Somba the hare, Katere the jackal, Uobogo the elephant, Jugumde the camel, Baga the dog, Njaka the small antelope, Padere the wild buffalo, Abaga the panther. Wagadugu is modern Ouagadougou. One sentence is kept exactly at the source's weight: the second tale closes by remarking that in old times a chicken sacrifice was made where Katere's tracks were seen on the market-place, a custom the book itself notes had already fallen out of use. Six other tales of the same chapter were read in full and left out under this shelf's standing rule that stories turning on depicted violence are excluded rather than softened: No. 98 (Somba kills and cooks children entrusted to him), No. 101 (a goat's legs torn off and eaten), No. 102 (children found dead; the panther kills the antelope), No. 103 (the thief beaten to death), No. 104 (the elephant dies with his heart cut), and No. 109 (the lion mutilated). This Part 1 is a first selection from the chapter, not the complete Mossi collection; more of the chapter remains for later parts. Narrated by Bruno. Music: opening and closing theme, "Winter_Palace_Rhapsody_2". Chapters: 00:00 Opening theme 01:34 Njaka's Daughter and Somba 10:55 Katere, Somba's Riding Horse 14:10 Somba, Uobogo and Jugumde 21:06 Somba, Katere and Baga 🎧 Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/kachelitv/

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  • S56 · E1
    October 20 · 29 min

    Palace Tales of Burma — Part 1: The King's Joke

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! One tale opens a new shelf: the first story of Palace Tales (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900) by H. Fielding — Harold Fielding Hall (1859–1917), who spent years in Burma in the government service and heard these stories in the palace world of Mandalay. Billed by author and book, as tales of the old Burmese court; not a survey of all Myanmar's peoples, and no completeness is claimed for one part of eight. The King's Joke — the King, amusing himself one morning in the chief Queen's apartments, decides that married life is far too happy a thing to keep to himself, and orders a wedding for that very afternoon. Twenty-five of his pages — the best players at the seed game — are to marry twenty-five of the Queen's maids of honour. The brides are chosen by lot, drawing tamarind seeds from a bag; the grooms draw their brides' names from another. One maid, Diamond Earrings, has her eye on a page with roguish eyes and a laugh always on his face — but the lot is blind, the palace garden at evening is full of alleys, and by moonlight the King has one more surprise in store: any bride who is not happy may give back her jewels and be a maid again. A gentle court comedy, read exactly as printed in 1900. The book's seven remaining tales wait for the parts that follow. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:24 The King's Joke H. Fielding, Palace Tales (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900) — public domain. Narrated by Scratch. Music: opening and closing theme, "Damp Pine Sunrise" — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tale itself is read dry. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud. Burmese folk tales · Myanmar folk tales · folk tales of Burma · Palace Tales · H. Fielding · Mandalay palace tales · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S55 · E1
    October 20 · 27 min

    Folk Tales of Paraguay — Part 1 (The Hogaraiteg · The Brother of the Foxes)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A new shelf opens with two Guaraní legends from the great Guaraní country of the Iberá lakes and the Paraná forests — lands that today span Paraguay and the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones. The legends were given printed form by Filiberto de Oliveira Cézar in his "Leyendas de los indios guaraníes" — Legends of the Guaraní Indians — published by Jacobo Peuser at Buenos Aires in 1892, and they are heard here in a fresh English translation made for this programme. Jaebé, a hunter's son, longs for Iponá, who sings in the palm groves. At the Festival of the Presentations he outruns fifty youths, outswims them all, and alone endures the nine-day fast wrapped in a hide — only to make, at the very moment of triumph, the choice no one expected. And a dying father, Payagua, charges his three sons to stay united; the two elder brothers forget, the foxes of the forest remember, and the youngest finds the family he chooses for himself. Filiberto de Oliveira Cézar (1856–1910), "Leyendas de los indios guaraníes" (Buenos Aires: Jacobo Peuser, 1892) — public domain. These are Guaraní legends from that one book, billed by their people and their author — not a survey of the whole of Paraguay. Nine of the book's thirteen legends were set aside under the shelf's content register, one is held for a ruling, and one stands first on the bench for Part 2; the full register is kept with the shelf's canon. Narrated by Mira. Music: opening and closing theme, "Cypress in the Soil 2". Chapters: 01:41 The Hogaraiteg 19:29 The Brother of the Foxes Guaraní folk tales · Paraguay folk tales · Guaraní legends · South American folk tales · Filiberto de Oliveira Cézar · world folk tales · free audiobook

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  • S54 · E1
    October 20 · 22 min

    Legends of Hawaii — Part 1 (Kalo-eke-eke, the Timid Taro · Lau-ka-ieie)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Two legends of old Hawaii, read whole and as printed. In "Kalo-eke-eke, the Timid Taro," two taro plants of South Kona, ordered pulled up for a chief's feast, take wings and flee from pond to pond and from district to district until they settle at last under a kindly chief in Kau, with a large family growing up around them. In "Lau-ka-ieie," the leaf-child given by the god Ku and Hina to the childless Pokahi and Kaukini grows up in the Waipio valley among the birds, the flowers and the singing shells, dreams of Kawelona of Kauai, and is wed when her brother Makani-kau, chief of the winds, brings the young chief to her over the sea in a boat of cloud. From "Legends of Gods and Ghosts" (1915) — legends of Hawaii collected and translated from the Hawaiian by W. D. Westervelt. Read as printed in the 1915 text. Notes on the reading, at the weight the tales themselves give them: in "Lau-ka-ieie," the newborn Hiilawe is cast into the sea wrapped in moss and is taken up unharmed and cared for in the same passage; birds are cooked for a feast in one sentence of ordinary food preparation; Makani-kau rides a pursuing shark to shore and makes it fast among the rocks, where it becomes a shark stone — the shark is subdued, not killed; and Hiilawe, after sickness and burial, is changed by Hina into an aumakua of the waterfalls. Other chapters of the book are not read here. Excluded by name: "The Ghost of Wahaula Temple," "Maluae and the Under-World," "A Giant's Rock-Throwing" and "Legendary Canoe-Making" — each turns on killing or on human sacrifice, which this programme does not carry. No completeness claim is made for the collection. Narrated by Violetta. Music: opening and closing theme, "Cello Makam Pulse". Chapters: 00:00 Opening theme — "Cello Makam Pulse" 01:07 Kalo-eke-eke, the Timid Taro 04:38 Lau-ka-ieie 🎧 Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/kachelitv/

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  • S48 · E2
    October 20 · 35 min

    Folk Tales of Switzerland — Part 2 (The Fairy in the Cuckoo Clock · The Ass That Saw the Angel)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Two tales from the Swiss mountains, from William Elliot Griffis's "Swiss Fairy Tales," published at New York in 1920. Griffis (1843–1928) dedicated the book to the radiant memories of his Swiss maternal ancestry, from whose lips he first heard stories of Switzerland, the land of the edelweiss. In "The Fairy in the Cuckoo Clock," old Soft Pudding, a kind-hearted and absent-minded man, takes a lantern into his garden on an autumn night to read the time on his new sundial, and breaks up the fairies' dance. Kindness is answered with kindness: the Queen of the Fairies comes to him in a dream and shows him a clock that needs no sun, with a wooden cuckoo to call out the hours — the invention that made Switzerland a land of clocks, watches and musical boxes. In "The Ass That Saw the Angel," Gruntli of the Grisons, a rich and proud "man of science" who believes only in what he can see, taste, smell, hear or handle, rides his faithful white ass Gulick to view the ruin of Plurs, a town wiped out by a landslide. On the narrow path the ass stops, and stops again, before a shining angel holding a drawn sword — an angel his master cannot see. What Gruntli learns on that path changes his life. Griffis founded this tale on the story of Balaam and his ass (Numbers 22). It is told here under the owner's ruling of 19 October 2026, which admitted this one tale by name as an exception to the standing park on sacred texts; no other sacred-text material stands in this shelf. Declared passage notes, exactly as the tales tell them. In the first tale, the owl's speech describes the cuckoo's ways in nature terms — its eggs laid in other birds' nests, the rightful eggs thrown out and nestlings lost — and the fairies, the tale says, would be turned to stone if the sun's rays struck them, as mortals on high mountains might be sunstruck and die; nothing of the kind is shown. In the second tale, the landslide at Plurs is told of as a calamity already past — the town found buried under earth, rock and snow; no death is shown, and the living Gruntli finds there are the survivors he afterwards helps. Gruntli, in his anger, beats the ass and drives in his spurs until, in the tale's words, little drops of blood drop on the ground — the cruelty the story itself rebukes: he washes the stains away, throws his spurs away, and spends his wealth on relief and better houses for his tenants. His one cry, "I just wish I had a sword to kill you," is spoken in rage and never acted on. Chapters: 2:00 The Fairy in the Cuckoo Clock 17:46 The Ass That Saw the Angel William Elliot Griffis, "Swiss Fairy Tales" (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1920), Chapters IX and XXIV. Two tales of the book's twenty-two, billed by their book and their teller — not the whole of Switzerland. Of the tales not in this part, two are excluded by name and the rest stand unscreened on the bench (register in the shelf canon). Narrated by Madame de Pamplemousse. Music: opening and closing theme, "Before the Pines End 2." Switzerland folk tales · Swiss fairy tales · Alpine folklore · William Elliot Griffis · world folk tales · free audiobook

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