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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.

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  • S174 · E1
    October 31 · 1 hr 9 min

    Legends of Canada — Part 1 (La Chasse-Galerie · The Beast with the Long Tail · Macloune)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! KacheliTV opens a new shelf: the French-Canadian settler legends of the Saint Lawrence parishes, from Honoré Beaugrand's La Chasse Galerie (Montreal, 1900), in a fresh translation made for this programme. In a Gatineau timber shanty on New Year's Eve, Joe the cook tells how eight shantymen swore a conditional oath, flew a bark canoe a hundred leagues through the moonlit sky to dance at Lavaltrie and Contrecoeur, and woke in a snowbank with nothing worse than a black eye. Then Fanfan Lazette meets the beast with the long tail on the Dautraye road, holds on through a quarter-hour grapple, and cuts the great red tail off at the root at the bridge — and the parish arbitration that follows establishes whose beast it truly was. Last, Macloune of Lanoraie: the poor pedlar, frail and halting of speech, whom the whole village loved, and whose marriage to Marichette Joyelle the curé forbade — a love story the parish itself judged more kindly than its priest and its doctor did. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 01:29 La Chasse-Galerie 25:45 The Beast with the Long Tail 47:18 Macloune Source: Honoré Beaugrand, La chasse galerie: Légendes canadiennes (Montreal, 1900) — public domain; text from Project Gutenberg eBook #16210. Fresh in-house English translation from the French, made for KacheliTV. The Beast with the Long Tail is carried entire as printed, exactly as the book gives it — the grapple, the tail cut off at the root, the river, and the closing arbitration record. In Macloune, the period description of the hero's disabled body is rendered with dignity rather than in the book's cruel terms, and a period term for the Indigenous basket-maker is given a neutral modern rendering; the tales themselves are otherwise whole. Two further legends of the 1900 collection are not in this programme: Le Loup-Garou and Le Père Louison are excluded by name under this channel's standing content law, and no completeness is claimed for the collection. This shelf presents French-Canadian settler legends only. Music: Urgent Rhythms, as opening and closing theme and as a short separator between stories; no music under the narration.

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  • S173 · E1
    October 31 · 34 min

    Folk Tales of Slovenia — Part 1 (The Young Lady · The Gold-Feather Bird · The Deaf Forest)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A new shelf opens in the Gorjanci Mountains of Slovenia, with three Slovenian folk tales and legends of the Gorjanci, as collected and told by Janez Trdina. The lady of Mihovo Castle, seven years abed, shelters a poor leper beggar against her servants' will, and his gift — a wondrous Gorjanci root — sends her to the spring that gives her back her health, her strength and her youth. Foolish Mikec stacks a hay-mound to the top of the wonder-tree, wins the Gold-Feather Bird's feather, which grants three written petitions, and spends them on an emperor's daughter, on her dowry, and on sending her back. And the pedlar Pavle, who wagers on a Sunday morning that he can cross the unblessed Deaf Forest where no bell is ever heard, meets its phantom horrors face to face, until prayer brings back his shadow and the road to Novo Mesto. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 02:08 The Young Lady 08:06 The Gold-Feather Bird 18:59 The Deaf Forest Source: Janez Trdina (1830–1905), Bajke in povesti o Gorjancih ("Tales and Stories of the Gorjanci Mountains"), first published in Ljubljanski zvon, 1882–88; book form in Zbrani spisi, Ljubljana, 1904 — public domain. Fresh in-house translation from the Slovenian, made for this programme. The three tales stand whole, as printed: in The Gold-Feather Bird, the opening tells in summary that earlier climbers for the feather slipped, fell and were killed — background mortality in two sentences, nothing enacted; in The Deaf Forest, admitted to this programme by name, the phantom apparition sequence — torn and bloody limbs and bones, a grinning dead head, an eye on a red strand, dissolving into a snail and dry knots — is carried entire as printed; no act of violence is done by anyone in the tale, and its closing prayer and moral stand. 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: The Flower Garden, The Enchanted Castle and Jutrovica stand benched under the shelf's sacred-texts park — Christ and the Holy Three Kings walk in them as characters — and were not used. Excluded whole under the shelf's register, and not read: The Giants, The Bird of Paradise, The Vila, The Werewolf, The Wild Man, The Water Man, The Dead Man's Shirt and Midsummer Night. 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; the volume's religious tales stand benched whole, and the longer pieces of the 1906 volume stand unscreened on the bench. Music: opening and closing theme, with short separators between the tales — Crimson Peak. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S18 · E20
    October 31 · 34 min

    Northern Tales — Part 20 of 22 (The Fish-Woman · Machekur · The Mouse and the Snow-Bunting · A Christmas Story · Transformed Bears · Kundarik · Yaghishna · Five Brothers · A Crazy Old Man · Two Girls)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Ten tales from the Kolyma country, told in the eighteen nineties and written down by Bogoras — the last Kolyma tales, then the children's stories. A poor man angles up the fish-girl Shérkala, who keeps his house in secret till he burns her fish skin. Machekur eats too much of the Mice-Girls' pudding, and their bladder prank bursts at home. The Mouse eats her guest the Snow-Bunting's stores first and then shares none of her own, until March saves the starved guest. Girls at Christmas divination are saved from a fire-breathing stove by saucepans worn as caps. A hunter helps a weeping bear bury his drowned mate, and finds a gold ring under her skin and a crucifix on his breast — two lovers who could not turn human again. Kundarik outwits the child-eating Yaghishna twice, and another girl opens her forbidden storehouse and takes her charmed reindeer across the river. Five brothers are taken by storm and ice. A crazy old man throws away three storehouses of food on a dream. And two girls whom no knife can wound lose nothing to Yaghishna's fire-breathing horses. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 02:03 Story of the Fish-Woman 05:46 A Story of Machekur 07:53 The Mouse and the Snow-Bunting 12:21 A Christmas Story 14:23 Story of Transformed Bears 18:07 Story of Kundarik 21:15 Story about Yaghishna 26:06 Story of Five Brothers 29:07 Story about a Crazy Old Man 31:54 Story about Two Girls Source: Waldemar Bogoras, Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (1918), Jesup North Pacific Expedition — public domain. Narrators as printed: the Fish-Woman by Innocent Korkin, a Russianized Yukaghir man, summer 1896; Machekur by Mary Korkin, a Russianized Yukaghir woman, summer 1896; the Mouse and the Snow-Bunting by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian creole, summer 1896; A Christmas Story by Mary Dauroff, a Russian creole woman, summer 1896 — all at Pokhotsk; Transformed Bears by John Sukhomyasoff, a Russian creole, clerk of the church, at Nishne-Kolymsk, summer 1896; Kundarik, Yaghishna, Five Brothers, Two Girls and A Crazy Old Man by Mary Shkuleff (printed Marie for the last), a Russian creole girl, at Pokhotsk, summer 1895. Fresh in-house rendering, heard exactly as screened: Machekur, the Mouse and the Snow-Bunting (ending "etc.", as printed), A Christmas Story and Five Brothers stand whole; the Fish-Woman's roe beat is softened; Transformed Bears' climax is carried without gore; Kundarik's two tricks are carried without their gore; in Yaghishna the blows, the tearing threat, the burst-belly drowning and the closing body-part verse is not carried — the escape stands whole; in A Crazy Old Man the closing accidents at the kettle are not carried; in Two Girls the heart-stab and trampling are condensed and the taper burning is not carried; the tale ends on its printed coda. 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: N.132 Yukaghir Manners is held for the owner's ruling — its substance is a funerary rite — and its page was not used. N.136 Story of a Foolish Woman and N.137 Story of the Forest Demon are excluded whole under the shelf's register — wife abuse ending in torture; a father–son fight to a graphic killing. N.139 Story of an Old Woman and her Three Daughters is excluded whole — a mother does all three daughters to death. N.142 Story of Hungry Children is held by name and untouched. The tales after N.145 are not yet fully screened, so none was jumped ahead to; the shelf claims no completeness that its register contradicts. Music: opening and closing theme, with short separators between the tales — Bandoneo, Street Romance. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S21 · E18
    October 31 · 33 min

    The Gatiloke — Part 18 of 23 (The Rabbit and the Pnau Fruit · The Two Skas · The Trechieh-Kam Bird · The Hunter Santuk · The Brahmin Adinnapubbaka)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Gatiloke closes its eighth part and opens its ninth. A ripe pnau fruit falls beside a sleeping rabbit, and the whole forest flees a danger that was never there, until the lion traces the panic home. A bat, caught in turn by two skas who keep opposite vows, talks his way out of both their mouths. A small bird warns the sparrows against the seed in the gardener's hand — and is ignored, until the net is woven and the flock is taken in it, caged, to be sold and eaten. A fisherman, certain his snagged hook holds a great fish, ruins his house and injures his eye over a catch that does not exist. And the brahmin who had never given lets his son sicken and die untreated rather than pay a doctor, and learns what all his keeping was worth. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. The episode opens and closes with Lightning Crash as its theme, heard also briefly between the stories. Narrated by Lulu. Chapters: 01:32 — The Rabbit and the Pnau Fruit 08:08 — The Two Skas Who Parted Ways to Find Food 13:41 — The Trechieh-Kam Bird and the Little Creatures 19:05 — The Hunter Santuk 25:12 — The Brahmin Adinnapubbaka From the Gatiloke by Suttantaprija Ind (1859–1924), Cambodia's treasury of Khmer folk tales, first published in parts in Phnom Penh in 1914–1921 — public domain, and told here in a fresh in-house English rendering made from the Khmer text, in the book's own order. Earlier holds stand as recorded in the collection's written register and in the descriptions of Parts 1–17: the question-chapter of the rascal who should be feared; Bhikkhu Sok, the Pnong teacher; the Singha-To who wanted the chief's daughter; the crocodile and the cart-driver; the hunter and the parrot; the fable of the old woman whom desire unmade; the abbot and his two students; the deer, the crow and the jackal; the jackal and the elephant; the lion and the frog; the rabbit and the tigress; and the goatherd boy — each held back under house rule until it is ruled on by name. One further tale of the book's sixth part — the tale of the village cat and the chap-puk bird — is likewise held back under house rule: its matter is a killing and an eating in the tale's open scene, twice over, and such a tale is not read until it is ruled on; it stands recorded in the register, in its place. Two tales at the close of the book's seventh part are likewise held back under house rule until they are ruled on by name: the lion who loved a cow, whose matter is a poisoning plotted and done, upon a tale of desire; and the monkey and the great hermit, whose matter is a sexual act done by guile on an unwilling other, as the tale's whole engine. Three tales of the book's eighth part are likewise held back under house rule until they are ruled on by name: the servant who killed the watch-crowing rooster, whose matter is a killing plotted in thought and done in secret, as the tale's whole engine; the couple who kept a ska, whose matter is a child dead by a snake's bite and a faithful creature struck down in anger, as the tale's climax; and the bear and the pongro tree, whose matter is a killing directed by one and done by another's axe, as the tale's close. The book's earlier item in this part, the tale of the man who knew how to play the gong, has no text in the collection's transcription as it stands; its collation is still owed, and it was passed in its place. One further tale of the book's eighth part — Chao Vaen, who went to buy spectacles to read broken letters — stands unfinished in the collection's transcription as it stands, its telling breaking off before its close; its collation is still owed, and it was passed in its place. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S67 · E4
    October 31 · 45 min

    Folk Tales of the Solomon Islands — Part 4 (The Story of the Yam · The Appearance of a Ghost · Siho i Salo, 'Descended from the Sky' · The Story of the Flying Snake · The Story of Sau mamare i ta'alu)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Five tales from Mala, Ulawa and Sa'a, in the southeast Solomon Islands, told exactly as Walter G. Ivens printed them in 1927. A fisherman's hook catches in a yam rooted in the sand beneath the sea, and the hidden yam becomes the food of all the villages, carried from landing to landing with its incantations. A murdered priest's ghost comes to two girls cooking yam soup, and their quick wits turn him away unharmed. Siho i Salo, Descended from the Sky, the man-eating ghost whose ears are like pandanus umbrellas, empties the canoe house by night, eats the whole pig Porotaki throws him, and ends as the appointed guardian of the garden and the forest. A stolen wife is followed across the sea to Mala and brought home by stealth, and Lady Chop Forest works her planting miracles in a garden measured in hundreds of fathoms. And Sau mamare i ta'alu is drawn up to the sky in a net, and her husband Uheli memu climbs the lengthening areca nut, is fanned back to life on a strange beach, and descends with her at the feast. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 02:30 The Story of the Yam 08:33 The Appearance of a Ghost 09:34 Siho i Salo, 'Descended from the Sky' 25:20 The Story of the Flying Snake 37:39 The Story of Sau mamare i ta'alu Passage notes, exactly as told: in The Story of the Yam, eight pigs offered in sacrifice stand in one line of ceremonial description. In The Appearance of a Ghost, the priest's killing is one clause of backstory; the scene itself is the two girls' harmless trick on his ghost. In Siho i Salo, the man-eating ghost eats no one — the men slip away, and Porotaki feeds him a whole pig, which he eats raw in one vivid passage (bones cracking, the ground running with blood); he ends as the garden's appointed guardian. In The Story of the Flying Snake, a war is declared against the stolen wife's hosts in a single clause as an off-page consequence and is never depicted; the tale's body is the flight and the planting miracles. In The Story of Sau mamare i ta'alu, the killing of Topo i salo is a single clause at the climax of an abduction-and-recovery tale whose substance is the journey and the recovery; the alternate ending printed with it carries no killing. 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, by name: The Story of Lord Mweo, the Familiar of a Shark (Ulawa), which stands between Siho i Salo and the Flying Snake in the book, and The Story of Puungilalamoa (Sa'a), which stands next after these tales — excluded whole under this shelf's written register, and never narrated. This part tells five tales of Mala, Ulawa and Sa'a from Ivens's folklore chapter, and the shelf claims no completeness that its exclusions contradict. Source: Walter G. Ivens, Melanesians of the South-East Solomon Islands (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1927) — stories of Mala, Ulawa and Sa'a, public domain. Narrated by Magnolia. Music: opening and closing theme, "Blazing Fire", with the same theme as a short separator between stories; no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S15 · E20
    October 31 · 36 min

    Folk Tales of India — Part 20 of 80 (The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess · How the Wicked Sons were Duped · The Pigeon and the Crow) | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Three tales from Joseph Jacobs' Indian Fairy Tales. In the first and longest, a prince whose stray arrow grazes a merchant's wife is banished from his father's kingdom, and sets out into exile with the vizier's son, who will not leave him; together they escape a robbers' tower, follow the reflection in a lotus lake to the Ivory City, and win the fairy princess Gulizar — surviving her poisoned pilaw, and clearing her name by a stratagem of a pearl necklace and a graveyard fakir. In the second, a rich old man, abused by the sons he has already enriched, is rescued by a friend's trick: four bags of stones and gravel, passed off as a repaid debt, make the sons attentive again until the day of his death — when the bags are opened. In the third, a Jataka, the Bodhisatta lives as a pigeon in a rich man's kitchen, and watches a greedy crow, who would not be warned, steal the cook's dainty dish and come to grief for it. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Stories: 00:45 The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess 30:22 How the Wicked Sons were Duped 32:42 The Pigeon and the Crow A note on what is not read here. One tale that stands between these in Jacobs' book is not read, under the shelf's standing rule that a tale-type is told once, in its strongest telling: Sun, Moon, and Wind go out to Dinner (Jacobs 27) is a variant of a tale this shelf tells from Mary Frere's collection. It is named here and in the shelf's records, not silently dropped; the shelf as a whole makes no claim to completeness. A note on The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess. The stray arrow that opens the tale does not kill: it grazes the merchant's wife, who faints, and recovers — the tale itself is clear on the point, and the shelf's register records the census summary's "accidental killing" as a false alarm inside the tale. The death sentences spoken in its courts are threats that are never carried out. The tale is read here exactly as Jacobs printed it. From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892), public domain; Project Gutenberg #7128 — the Panchatantra and Jataka tales Jacobs retold from the older collections, told here as Jacobs printed them. Narrated by Orson. Music: "Lightning Crash" — instrumental opening and closing theme, with short instrumental separators between the stories. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S18 · E19
    October 30 · 32 min

    Northern Tales — Part 19 of 22 (A Hunting Tale · Story about the Bad Merchant · Sea-Wanderers · The Big Pike)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Four tales from the Kolyma country, told in the eighteen nineties and written down by Waldemar Bogoras. Three hunting companions share twenty sable skins unfairly, until the old man by the birch tree — who was once turned into a wolf, and then into a bunch of grass — teaches them what an unfair share costs, and the birch tree beside his house becomes a woman again. The brother who stayed at home catches the Bad Merchant with the merchant's own silver-inlaid lance and sets his workman free. A boatload of sea-wanderers sails three years among wonders — the fox people under the bank, the one-sided fishers, and the people who live on steam — and comes home to wives who had mourned them for dead. And on a Lena-country lake lives a pike so large that its cheek bones once sheltered a man, and the fisherman who met its two eyes on the water would never eat pike again. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 01:39 A Hunting Tale 12:38 Story about the Bad Merchant 19:04 Sea-Wanderers 29:13 The Big Pike Source: Waldemar Bogoras, Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (1918), recorded for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition — public domain. Narrators as printed: N.123 told by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian Creole, at Pokhotsk, summer 1896; N.124 told by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian creole, at Pokhotsk, summer 1895; N.126 told by Innocent Korkin, a Russianized Yukaghir man, at Pokhotsk, summer 1896; N.130 told by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian creole, at Pokhotsk, summer 1896. Fresh in-house English rendering, heard exactly as screened: the hunting tale and the Big Pike stand whole as printed; in the Bad Merchant, a single sentence of violation and the closing speculation about the prisoners' fate are not carried; in Sea-Wanderers, one island episode — a house with racks of dried human flesh — is left out whole, and the voyage sails on without it. 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: N.125 Stepmother and Stepdaughter and N.127 The Tale of La'la (first telling) are excluded whole under the shelf's register — the first turns on habitual stepmother cruelty and ends in a girl torn in two; the second is a war raid and revenge killing from first to last. N.128, the second telling of La'la, stands down as its variant and is never narrated — with the first telling excluded, the La'la story leaves the shelf entirely. Also held by name for the owner's ruling, and untouched: N.116 The She-Monster, N.117 The Monster with Iron Teeth, N.118 The Girl from the Grave-Box, N.119 and N.120 Small-Pox (both versions), N.129 The Woman's Head, and N.142 Story of Hungry Children. This part tells Kolyma tales only, and the shelf claims no completeness that its register contradicts. Music: opening and closing theme, with short separators between the tales — Falling Leaves at the Ice Cliffs. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S21 · E17
    October 30 · 44 min

    The Gatiloke — Part 17 of 23 (Old Ta Phok and the Temple Boy · The Opium Smoker's Wife · The Man Who Kept a Bear · The Kraling-Kralong Bird and the Monkey · The Two Snakes · The Ki-Samut and the Pond Frog · Chao Tris and His Palace Wife)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Gatiloke opens its eighth part. Old Ta Phok sits drinking tea with the abbot while the temple boys strip his garden bare. A wife, watching her opium-smoking husband ruin the house, talks him onto liquor — and finds the cure worse than the habit. A man sets his bear to guard his forest sleep, and wakes with a broken nose. A monkey, told by two small birds to build itself a shelter, answers by tearing their nest down. Two snakes try their shapes at a garden fence; a sea creature no bigger than a prawn lectures a pond frog on the size of the ocean; and Chao Tris hawks his fish in his palace wife's royal words — to his cost. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. The episode opens and closes with Lightning Crash as its theme, heard also briefly between the stories. Narrated by Felix. Chapters: 01:37 — Old Ta Phok and the Temple Boy 07:26 — The Woman Whose Husband Smoked Opium 15:11 — The Man Who Kept a Bear 18:40 — The Kraling-Kralong Bird and the Monkey 25:48 — The Many-Headed One-Tailed Snake and the One-Headed Many-Tailed Snake 29:27 — The Ki-Samut and the Pond Frog 34:12 — Chao Tris Who Took a Wife from the Palace From the Gatiloke by Suttantaprija Ind (1859–1924), Cambodia's treasury of Khmer folk tales, first published in parts in Phnom Penh in 1914–1921 — public domain, and told here in a fresh in-house English rendering made from the Khmer text, in the book's own order. Earlier holds stand as recorded in the collection's written register and in the descriptions of Parts 1–16: the question-chapter of the rascal who should be feared; Bhikkhu Sok, the Pnong teacher; the Singha-To who wanted the chief's daughter; the crocodile and the cart-driver; the hunter and the parrot; the fable of the old woman whom desire unmade; the abbot and his two students; the deer, the crow and the jackal; the jackal and the elephant; the lion and the frog; the rabbit and the tigress; and the goatherd boy — each held back under house rule until it is ruled on by name. One further tale of the book's sixth part — the tale of the village cat and the chap-puk bird — is likewise held back under house rule: its matter is a killing and an eating in the tale's open scene, twice over, and such a tale is not read until it is ruled on; it stands recorded in the register, in its place. Two tales at the close of the book's seventh part are likewise held back under house rule until they are ruled on by name: the lion who loved a cow, whose matter is a poisoning plotted and done, upon a tale of desire; and the monkey and the great hermit, whose matter is a sexual act done by guile on an unwilling other, as the tale's whole engine. Three tales of the book's eighth part are likewise held back under house rule until they are ruled on by name: the servant who killed the watch-crowing rooster, whose matter is a killing plotted in thought and done in secret, as the tale's whole engine; the couple who kept a ska, whose matter is a child dead by a snake's bite and a faithful creature struck down in anger, as the tale's climax; and the bear and the pongro tree, whose matter is a killing directed by one and done by another's axe, as the tale's close. The book's earlier item in this part, the tale of the man who knew how to play the gong, has no text in the collection's transcription as it stands; its collation is still owed, and it was passed in its place. One further tale of the book's eighth part — Chao Vaen, who went to buy spectacles to read broken letters — stands unfinished in the collection's transcription as it stands, its telling breaking off before its close; its collation is still owed, and it was passed in its place. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S15 · E19
    October 30 · 33 min

    Folk Tales of India — Part 19 of 80 (The Prince and the Fakir · Why the Fish Laughed · The Demon with the Matted Hair) | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Three tales from Joseph Jacobs' Indian Fairy Tales. In the first, a childless king lies down where four roads meet so that all must step over him, and a fakir's blessing gives him two sons — but the fakir returns in a year to claim the elder, and the prince, taken as his pupil, turns the fakir's own cauldron against him and frees everything the fakir held captive. In the second, a fish laughs aloud when a queen asks whether it is a he or a she; the king gives his vizier six months to explain the laugh, and the answer, won on the road by the vizier's son from a farmer's wise daughter, uncovers a man hidden among the palace maids. In the third, the Prince of the Five Weapons walks fearless into a demon's forest, and when sword, spear, bow, battle-axe and shield have all stuck fast in the Demon's matted hair, it is his fearlessness alone that wins him free. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Stories: 00:46 The Prince and the Fakir 10:53 Why the Fish Laughed 23:47 The Demon with the Matted Hair A note on what is not read here. Two tales that stand between these three in Jacobs' book are not read, under the shelf's standing rule that a tale-type is told once, in its strongest telling: The Farmer and the Money-Lender (Jacobs 21) is a variant of a tale this shelf tells from Flora Annie Steel's collection, and The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin (Jacobs 22) is a variant of a tale this shelf tells in full from Maive Stokes' collection. Both are named here and in the shelf's exclusion register, not silently dropped; the shelf as a whole makes no claim to completeness. A note on Why the Fish Laughed. The death sentence in this tale is a threat spoken near its opening — the vizier is given six months to explain the fish's laugh on pain of death — and it is never carried out: the tale ends with the faithful vizier saved. It is read here exactly as Jacobs printed it. From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892), public domain; Project Gutenberg #7128 — the Panchatantra and Jataka tales Jacobs retold from the older collections, told here as Jacobs printed them. Narrated by Amos. Music: "Falling Leaves at the Ice Cliffs" — instrumental opening and closing theme, with short instrumental separators between the stories. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S67 · E3
    October 30 · 35 min

    Folk Tales of the Solomon Islands — Part 3 (The Two Puepuei Walo Toro · Hute i Reuna Nga Päsi · U'o Saesae Madi, the Delectable Lizard)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Three tales from Sa'a and Mala, in the south-east Solomon Islands, told exactly as Walter G. Ivens printed them in 1927. Two sisters go for wooden ear plugs, and a broken shell armlet and an elder sister's angry words spoken in a parable send the younger travelling to find Apai dili tola raka — by way of the Fisher for Worms, who shuts her in his inner chamber until an old woman knocks the wall down and takes her out. Hute i Reuna Nga Pasi, Born by the Side of a Bow, is swallowed by the great Groper and cuts his way out by firelight, defies his mother's warnings to take the Pig at Talahanea, and shoots the man-eating Eagle that had destroyed the people. And U'o Saesae Madi, the Delectable Lizard, the wonder-child born running after his father, lifts the canoe-house pillars, walks out of the great Clam, kills the man-eating Pig at Paasi, and rides a rainbow home from the sky. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 02:01 The Two Puepuei Walo Toro 10:55 Hute i Reuna Nga Päsi, Born by the Side of a Bow 23:55 U'o Saesae Madi, the Delectable Lizard Passage notes, exactly as told: in The Two Puepuei Walo Toro, a pig is caught and killed for the journey food in one line; the Fisher for Worms shuts the girl in his inner chamber and the old woman knocks the wall down and takes her out — confinement ends in rescue, no harm. In Hute i Reuna Nga Päsi, the father's death is worked by a boiled charm in a single clause before the tale proper begins; the boy is swallowed by the Groper and cuts his way out by firelight, a survival escape; he shoots the man-eating Eagle that had destroyed the people in one passage, and takes the Pig for food. In U'o Saesae Madi, the men try three times to be rid of the wonder-child and fail without hurting him; he kills the man-eating Pig in one clause; at the very end a burnt charm shrivels him and he dies, in one clause. 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, by name: The War at Paasi (Sa'a) and Pelitataka and the Man-eater (Ulawa), which stand next after these tales in the book — excluded whole under this shelf's written register, and never narrated. This part tells three tales of Sa'a and Mala from Ivens's folklore chapter, and the shelf claims no completeness that its exclusions contradict. Source: Walter G. Ivens, Melanesians of the South-East Solomon Islands (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1927) — stories of Sa'a and Mala, public domain. Narrated by Morgana. Music: opening and closing theme, "Blazing Fire", with the same theme as a short separator between stories; no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S18 · E18
    October 30 · 31 min

    Northern Tales — Part 18 of 22 (Tale about Chumo · Yukaghir Tale · Tale of a Shaman · Tale of a Shaman)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Four tales from the Kolyma country, told in 1896 and written down by Waldemar Bogoras. Three sisters find a baby in a rock — Chumo, who grows to the roof when the house is empty and eats all their stores — and flee from him over a mountain of ivory and a mountain of flint to a river of fire. A pike with iron teeth gives a mother a daughter who grows by the hour, and her brother escapes her up an iron tree. A young man wins a horse from every companion by daring at midnight to cut the braid from a dead shaman's head. And a one-eyed Kolyma healer succeeds where seven shamans have failed, and sends his fee home through the air on a flying horse. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 01:24 Tale about Chumo 13:08 Yukaghir Tale — The Pike-Girl 20:34 Tale of a Shaman — The Braid 23:43 Tale of a Shaman — The One-Eyed Healer Source: Waldemar Bogoras, Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (1918), recorded for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition — public domain. Narrators as printed: N.114 told by Anne Vastriakoff, a Russianized Yukaghir woman, at Omolon, autumn 1896; N.115 told by Anne Korkin, a Russianized Yukaghir woman, at Sukharnoye, autumn 1896; N.121 told by John Parin, a Russianized Yakut, at Bystraia, summer 1896; N.122 told by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian creole, at Pokhotsk, summer 1896. Fresh in-house English rendering, heard exactly as screened: the first tale stands whole as printed, unfinished as its narrator left it; in the Pike-Girl, her parents' end stays offstage as printed, the reindeer pursuit is condensed, and the ermine's end is carried in a single plain clause; in the last tale, the healing is rendered without literal dismemberment, the cure whole. 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: the five tales between the Pike-Girl and the shaman tales stand held by name for the owner's ruling, and untouched — N.116 The She-Monster, N.117 The Monster with Iron Teeth, N.118 The Girl from the Grave-Box, and N.119 and N.120 Small-Pox (both versions). Also held by name and untouched: N.129 The Woman's Head and N.142 Story of Hungry Children. No tale in this part's span was excluded whole. This part tells Kolyma tales only, and the shelf claims no completeness that its register contradicts. Music: opening and closing theme, with short separators between the tales — Cello Makam Pulse. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S21 · E16
    October 30 · 34 min

    The Gatiloke — Part 16 of 23 (The Father and Son Who Took a Donkey to Sell · Chao Chak Smok · The Hamsa Goose and the Tortoise)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Gatiloke continues its seventh part. A father and son, taking their fat young donkey to sell, change their way at every voice they meet — carrying it slung, the son riding, the father riding, both riding, both leading — and learn that with one donkey, pleasing the world cannot be done. Chao Chak Smok, weaving baskets at the top of a sugar palm, daydreams his way from one riel to fields and fortune, kicks at the slave girl of his dream, and falls — and the rescue that follows costs the four kind helpers who catch his fall their lives, while a poor woman's spilled pot of milk teaches the same lesson of desire-thought. And a tortoise, carried through the sky by its friends the hamsa geese, cannot keep its mouth shut over Varanasi. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. The episode opens and closes with Bandoneo Street Romance as its theme, heard also briefly between the stories. Narrated by Madame de Pamplemousse. Chapters: 01:12 — The Father and Son Who Took a Donkey to Sell 15:43 — Chao Chak Smok 28:49 — The Hamsa Goose and the Tortoise From the Gatiloke by Suttantaprija Ind (1859–1924), Cambodia's treasury of Khmer folk tales, first published in parts in Phnom Penh in 1914–1921 — public domain, and told here in a fresh in-house English rendering made from the Khmer text, in the book's own order. Earlier holds stand as recorded in the collection's written register and in the descriptions of Parts 1–15: the question-chapter of the rascal who should be feared; Bhikkhu Sok, the Pnong teacher; the Singha-To who wanted the chief's daughter; the crocodile and the cart-driver; the hunter and the parrot; the fable of the old woman whom desire unmade; the abbot and his two students; the deer, the crow and the jackal; the jackal and the elephant; the lion and the frog; the rabbit and the tigress; and the goatherd boy — each held back under house rule until it is ruled on by name. One further tale of the book's sixth part — the tale of the village cat and the chap-puk bird — is likewise held back under house rule: its matter is a killing and an eating in the tale's open scene, twice over, and such a tale is not read until it is ruled on; it stands recorded in the register, in its place. Two tales at the close of the book's seventh part are likewise held back under house rule until they are ruled on by name: the lion who loved a cow, whose matter is a poisoning plotted and done, upon a tale of desire; and the monkey and the great hermit, whose matter is a sexual act done by guile on an unwilling other, as the tale's whole engine. The book's earlier item in this part, the tale of the man who knew how to play the gong, has no text in the collection's transcription as it stands; its collation is still owed, and it was passed in its place. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S15 · E18
    October 30 · 33 min

    Folk Tales of India — Part 18 of 80 (A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice · The Gold-Giving Serpent · A Lesson for Kings · Pride Goeth before a Fall · The Ass in the Lion's Skin) | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Five tales from Joseph Jacobs' Indian Fairy Tales. In the first, a poor Brahman's wife carries three pieces of advice to market, asking a lac of rupees for them — and a banished prince who pays the price finds that each one saves his life. In the second, a farmer's daily bowl of milk for a serpent is repaid in gold, until his son's greed ends the friendship for ever. In the third, two kings of equal rank and opposite temper meet in a cart-track too narrow for both, and the question is whose chariot gives way. In the fourth, ten plundered cloth merchants, ordered to dance for the robbers who stripped them, sing a song the robbers do not understand. In the fifth, a hawker's ass, turned loose to graze in a lion's skin, is undone by his own voice. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Stories: 00:46 A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice 15:50 The Gold-Giving Serpent 19:27 A Lesson for Kings 26:00 Pride Goeth before a Fall 30:39 The Ass in the Lion's Skin A note on what is not read here. Two tales that stand between these five in Jacobs' book are not read, under the shelf's standing rule that a tale-type is told once, in its strongest telling: The Son of Seven Queens (Jacobs 16) is a variant of a tale this shelf tells from Flora Annie Steel's collection, and Raja Rasalu (Jacobs 19) is Jacobs' own compressed digest of a legend this shelf tells in full from Steel. Both are named here and in the shelf's exclusion register, not silently dropped; the shelf as a whole makes no claim to completeness. From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892), public domain; Project Gutenberg #7128 — the Panchatantra and Jataka tales Jacobs retold from the older collections, told here as Jacobs printed them. Narrated by Scratch. Music: "Imperial Violin Masquerade" — instrumental opening and closing theme, with short instrumental separators between the stories. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S67 · E2
    October 30 · 34 min

    Folk Tales of the Solomon Islands — Part 2 (The Feast of His Lordship the Eagle · The Hibiscus Flower and the Fire · The Rat and the Worm · Procuring a Wife · Marriage Negotiations · The Story of Takere Toro)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Six tales from Sa'a and Ulawa, in the south-east Solomon Islands, told exactly as Walter G. Ivens printed them in 1927. His Lordship the Eagle gives a feast, and the Crested Hawk who plaited a red cane anclet on Lady Swamp Hen pays for his presumption. A hibiscus flower plays a trick on a fire stick at the pool. A worm silences a rat with wise words. A younger brother wins a wife from the Lady with watery eyes, while his elder brother, who would do none of her bidding, fares otherwise. A bride-viewing party sails from landing to landing in five hired canoes, finding fault at every beach, until the mate of Lord-fall-at-sea is found at home. And Takere Toro, disguised as an old woman, asks for water at every village in the land. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 01:43 The Feast of His Lordship the Eagle 06:24 The Hibiscus Flower and the Fire 08:02 The Rat and the Worm 09:08 Procuring a Wife 14:20 Marriage Negotiations 29:11 The Story of Takere Toro Passage notes, exactly as told: in The Feast of His Lordship the Eagle, the Crested Hawk is caught, struck and tied for his presumption, then loosed by the Swallow unharmed — a brief chastisement inside an animal tale. In Procuring a Wife, the elder brother moves to throw the old woman into the sea and does not: her words stop him, and she stays aboard as his housekeeper — the throw is threatened only, never enacted. In Marriage Negotiations, at the close the feast pigs are killed and roasted in a single line. 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, by name: Bang the Paddle (Ulawa), which stands between The Rat and the Worm and Procuring a Wife in the book — excluded whole under this shelf's written register, and never narrated. This part tells six tales of Sa'a and Ulawa from Ivens's folklore chapter, and the shelf claims no completeness that its exclusions contradict. Source: Walter G. Ivens, Melanesians of the South-East Solomon Islands (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1927) — stories of Sa'a and Ulawa, public domain. Narrated by Mira. Music: opening and closing theme, "Bandoneo Street Romance", with the same theme as a short separator between stories; no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S21 · E15
    October 30 · 45 min

    The Gatiloke — Part 15 of 23 (The Donkey and the Dog with the Same Master · The Feet and Hands That Envied the Mouth · The Bitch and the Corpse · The Village Chief and His Servant Boy)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Gatiloke closes its sixth part and opens its seventh. A donkey laden with his master's stores refuses the hungry dog a midday share of rice, for the stores are not his to give; when a wild dog chases him, the dog returns his own words and sits watching — until the master wakes, and judges the fault to be his own. The feet, the hands and the mouth, learning that all their labour feeds a stomach that does no work, go on strike together, and wither together, and learn why the idle centre must be fed. A bitch at a charnel ground talks her pup out of eating a corpse, part by part — eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet, and the mind itself — until the pup gives the wish up untouched. And a village chief, beaten twice by his servant boy's wit, receives tongues when he orders the best meat in the world, and tongues again when he orders the worst. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. The episode opens and closes with Bandoneo Street Romance as its theme, heard also briefly between the stories. Narrated by Violetta. Chapters: 01:17 — The Donkey and the Dog with the Same Master 14:09 — The Feet and Hands That Envied the Mouth 22:15 — The Bitch and the Corpse 31:08 — The Village Chief and His Servant Boy From the Gatiloke by Suttantaprija Ind (1859–1924), Cambodia's treasury of Khmer folk tales, first published in parts in Phnom Penh in 1914–1921 — public domain, and told here in a fresh in-house English rendering made from the Khmer text, in the book's own order. Earlier holds stand as recorded in the collection's written register and in the descriptions of Parts 1–14: the question-chapter of the rascal who should be feared; Bhikkhu Sok, the Pnong teacher; the Singha-To who wanted the chief's daughter; the crocodile and the cart-driver; the hunter and the parrot; the fable of the old woman whom desire unmade; the abbot and his two students; the deer, the crow and the jackal; the jackal and the elephant; the lion and the frog; the rabbit and the tigress; and the goatherd boy — each held back under house rule until it is ruled on by name. One further tale of the book's sixth part — the tale of the village cat and the chap-puk bird — is likewise held back under house rule: its matter is a killing and an eating in the tale's open scene, twice over, and such a tale is not read until it is ruled on; it stands recorded in the register, in its place. The book's next item after this part's tales, the tale of the man who knew how to play the gong, has no text in the collection's transcription as it stands; its collation is still owed, and Part Sixteen opens at the tale after it. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S18 · E17
    October 30 · 33 min

    Northern Tales — Part 17 of 22 (Yukaghir Tale · A Bear Tale · Grass-Blade Girl · Yukaghir Tale)

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Four tales from the Kolyma country, told at Pokhotsk in 1895 and 1896 and written down by Waldemar Bogoras. An old man feigns his death so that he can eat a fat elk all alone, and his wife teaches him better with the help of a ptarmigan. A bear carries off a girl kept hidden for her beauty, and her brother-in-law, a great shaman, fights for her in bear's shape with a bell on his ear — and the boy she bears is Bear-Ear, the strong hunter. Grass-Blade Girl, born from a blade of grass and rich in pearls and sables, is stolen by the witch Yaghishna, loses everything, and is born again from a new green blade. And Kutika Mutika, whose name no suitor could guess, flies from the monster who guessed it — and meets him again at her own fireside, with three children in the house. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters: 01:33 Yukaghir Tale — The Death That Was Only Feigned 06:21 A Bear Tale 13:55 Grass-Blade Girl 23:04 Yukaghir Tale — Kutika Mutika Source: Waldemar Bogoras, Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (1918), recorded for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition — public domain. Narrators as printed: N.109 and N.111 told by Katherine Rumiantzev, a Russianized Yukaghir woman, at Pokhotsk, summer 1896; N.110 told by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian creole, at Pokhotsk, summer 1896; N.113 told by Nicholas Kusakoff, a Russian creole, at Pokhotsk, summer 1895. Fresh in-house English rendering, heard exactly as screened: in the first tale, the two scoldings stand where blows stood, the ptarmigan frightens without drawing blood, and the poker is shaken, not swung; in the bear tale, one forced sentence is not heard, and the bear's anger is heard in a single plain clause; in Grass-Blade Girl, the witch's cellar, the pursuit, and the witch's end are condensed to plain clauses, with the girl's rebirth whole; in the last tale, the monster's seizing of the two little ones and his end at the sea are condensed the same way. 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: N.108 Raven Tale and N.112 The Alder-Block — excluded whole under this shelf's written register, and never narrated. Held by name for the owner's ruling, and untouched: N.116 The She-Monster, N.117 The Monster with Iron Teeth, N.118 The Girl from the Grave-Box, N.119 and N.120 Small-Pox (both versions), N.129 The Woman's Head, and N.142 Story of Hungry Children. This part tells Kolyma tales only, and the shelf claims no completeness that its exclusions contradict. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S8 · E61
    October 30 · 31 min

    The Thousand and One Nights — Noureddin Ali of Cairo and His Son Bedreddin Hassan — Part Three of Five

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The bride has been displayed in her seven dresses, and the stranger from Bassora sits in the alcove where the hunchbacked groom should be — while the groom himself is kept waiting in the dark by a visitor he will not forget: an Ifrit who grows from mouse to cat to dog to buffalo to bar him from the bridal chamber. Bedreddin takes his bride in honour, and falls asleep in her arms; but the jinn who carried him to Cairo must carry him home before dawn, and the dawn overtakes them on the way. He wakes at the gate of Damascus in nothing but his shirt, and is taken in by a cook with a past. In Cairo, a turban, a purse of a thousand dinars and a paper sewn into a cap tell the Vizier who his daughter's husband truly was — and a son is born who will ask, one day, who his father is. Part Three of Five. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. A note on what is not read here. In Payne's book this tale is told by the Vizier Jaafer inside "The Three Apples". That frame tale is not read in this programme: a husband's murder of his wife is its plot engine, and it is excluded whole under this shelf's rule that violent tales are excluded, never softened. No completeness is claimed for that stretch of the book. Within Part Three itself, one brief passage of the wedding night — the bride's unveiling and what followed, in the source's explicit terms — has been passage-cut at scripting and bridged in a few plain words, on this shelf's standing practice for such passages; the marriage, and that the bride conceived a son, are told as the tale tells them, and nothing else is cut. Chapters: 00:52 Introduction 01:54 Noureddin Ali of Cairo and His Son Bedreddin Hassan — Part Three Fresh in-house rendering from John Payne's translation, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–84). Parts Four and Five are still to come, and will complete the tale. Narrated by Lulu. Music: "Imperial Violin Masquerade" — opening and closing theme, with a short excerpt at the tale's mid-point break. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S15 · E17
    October 30 · 32 min

    Folk Tales of India — Part 17 of 80 (Harisarman · The Charmed Ring · The Talkative Tortoise) | KacheliTV World Classics

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Three tales from Joseph Jacobs' Indian Fairy Tales. In the first, Harisarman, a poor Brahman tired of being forgotten at his patron's table, pretends to magical knowledge — and luck, three times over, makes the pretence good. In the second, a merchant's son spends his whole fortune rescuing a dog, a cat and a snake, and is repaid with a charmed ring that summons a house and a princess — until an ogress steals the ring away, and the faithful animals must win it back. In the third, a talkative tortoise, carried through the sky by two wild ducks, cannot hold his tongue — and the future Buddha, adviser to a king who talks too much, draws the moral. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Stories: 00:46 Harisarman 09:53 The Charmed Ring 27:33 The Talkative Tortoise A note on what is not read here. This part was originally mapped to a single tale, The Soothsayer's Son (Jacobs 10), which is excluded whole under the house law — violence is that tale's substance — and is named here, not silently dropped; the part therefore tells the next three tales in Jacobs' order, and the shelf renumbers from this part onward (eighty parts in all). The shelf as a whole makes no claim to completeness: the tales excluded whole and the items held for the owner's ruling by name are all listed in the shelf's exclusion register. From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1892), public domain; Project Gutenberg #7128 — the Panchatantra and Jataka tales Jacobs retold from the older collections, told here as Jacobs printed them. Narrated by Orson. Music: "Bandoneo Street Romance" — instrumental opening and closing theme, with short instrumental separators between the stories. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S172 · E10
    October 30 · 4 min

    Tales for Sleep: The Queen of the Surf

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Tales for Sleep: The Queen of the Surf Tonight's tale is "Mamala the Surf-Rider," from William D. Westervelt's Legends of Old Honolulu, collected in Hawaii. Settle in, and listen. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Mamala was the surf-riding queen of Kou, the village now called Honolulu. The surf she rode was the surf of Ka-lakae, "the rough," long, curling, straight waves that no one dared to ride without first learning their ways. She rode easily, alone, out beyond the breakers, with the breeze feathering the tabu trees — until the young chief Kahaavale saw her on the shore at night, and came again and again. In the racing dug-outs — the double canoes whose bows rise to keep them from plunging under the waves — the chief of a neighbouring village put his little sister on the bow of the fastest canoe, stroke by stroke, race by race, until the two champions met on the water. Listen now, and rest. The tale: 00:15 — Mamala the Surf-Rider Source: William D. Westervelt (1861–1942), Legends of Old Honolulu (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1916), ch. VII, Project Gutenberg #66547, pp. 135–140 (575 words) — public domain; performed in Westervelt's printed English. Gate record: catalogue/hawaiiWestervelt-canon.md. No completeness claim is made for Westervelt's collection. Narrated by Lulu A dry-voice telling — no music, by the Sleep Season's design. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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  • S143 · E2
    October 30 · 25 min

    Folk Tales of Lesotho — Part 2: The Bird That Makes Milk · Ntoatsana | 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 Lesotho — Part 2 (The Bird That Makes Milk · Ntoatsana) Part two of the Lesotho shelf. Two more folk tales of the Basuto people, from Édouard Jacottet's Contes populaires des Bassoutos (Paris, 1895), collected by Jacottet himself in Basutoland — modern Lesotho — where he lived nearly ten years and spoke the language, and heard here in a fresh in-house English translation made from Jacottet's French. In The Bird That Makes Milk, a little bird undoes Mamasilo's hoeing every evening with its song, until she catches it and its frightened refrain fills every vessel in the village with curdled milk; and when the children who borrowed it lose it on the hillside, the immense bird Tlatlasollé shelters them all under its wings from a tree-breaking hailstorm, raises them in its nest, and in time flies every one of them home to its own parents. In Ntoatsana, a whirlwind carries the herd-girl to the Ma-Tébélé, the fabulous people with one leg, one arm, one eye and one ear; years later she silences the magic horns that guard her hut and escapes by night with her twin daughters, while a marvellous singing, dancing sheep stops her one-legged pursuers in wonder, again and again, until they give up and go home. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. The Bird That Makes Milk — a field that will not stay hoed, a bird that makes curdled milk, lost children sheltered under great wings, and every child returned home. Ntoatsana — a whirlwind, the one-legged Ma-Tébélé, magic horns silenced with hot water and stones, and a singing sheep that dances a whole pursuit to a standstill. The tales: 0:46 The Bird That Makes Milk 16:09 Ntoatsana From Contes populaires des Bassoutos by Édouard Jacottet (1858–1920), published in Paris in 1895 and in the public domain; lawful copy: Internet Archive (contespopulaires00jaco). Tales X and XX, complete and in book order, in a fresh in-house English translation from the French; Jacottet's scholarly footnotes are apparatus and are not narrated. Eleven of the book's twenty-three tales are excluded from this shelf by name after full readings: Le petit lièvre · Le chacal, la colombe et la panthère · Masilo et Masilonyané · Masilo et Thakané · Tsélané · Mosélantja · Nyopakatala · Modisa-oa-Bipodi · Koumongoé · Monyohé · Mosimodi et Mosimotsané. No claim of completeness for the book is made. Narrated by Morgana. Music: Bandoneo Street Romance, heard as the opening and closing theme and briefly between the stories; no music under the narration. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.

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