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Popol Vuh — Part 11 of 15 (The Dawn)
Season 13 Episode 11
In The Hiding of the Gods, Tohil, Avilix and Hacavitz speak to Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Agab, Mahucutah and Iqi-Balam: the dawn draws near, and they must …
an hour ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 6 (The Water of Eternal Youth)
Season 20 Episode 6
An old king has one eye that always laughs and one that always weeps — and only his youngest son dares to ask him why. The answer sends the boy out o…
2 hours ago
Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 8 of 19 (Fragment · Furisodé · A Story of Divination)
Season 19 Episode 8
Three pieces from In Ghostly Japan, opening Hearn's 1899 collection. Fragment is a vision entire: a pilgrim follows his Bodhisattva guide up a mounta…
2 hours ago
Folk Tales of France — Part 2 (The Houle of La Corbière · The Grass Snake · The Girl and Her Seven Brothers)
Season 22 Episode 2
Three more tales from Paul Sébillot's Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne (Paris, 1880), the great collection of the folk tales of Upper Brittany,…
3 hours ago
Popular Tales from the Norse — Part 8 of 14 (The Best Wish)
Season 14 Episode 8
Three brothers hold one wish each. The two elder wish for pockets that are never empty of money; Boots, the youngest, wishes that every woman who see…
3 hours ago
Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 6 of 19 (The Dream of Akinosuke · Riki-Baka)
Season 19 Episode 6
Two tales from Kwaidan. In The Dream of Akinosuke, the gōshi Miyata Akinosuké, napping beneath the great cedar in his garden, dreams an entire life: …
4 hours ago
Popular Tales from the Norse — Part 6 of 14 (One's Own Children Are Always Prettiest)
Season 14 Episode 6
A sportsman's snipe teaches him that every parent thinks their own children prettiest; a lassie whose godmother is the Virgin Mary herself endures ye…
4 hours ago
The Thousand and One Nights — Attaf the Generous — Part One
Season 8 Episode 353
A book in the caliph's cabinet tells of adventures that have not yet happened, and the vizir Giafar, banished until he can say what it contains, ride…
4 hours ago
Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 7 of 19 (The Rebirth of Katsugorō)
Season 19 Episode 7
The shelf leaves Kwaidan for Hearn's earlier Gleanings in Buddha-Fields — and for a piece Hearn himself insists is not a story at all: the translatio…
4 hours ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 5 (The World-Wandering Prince)
Season 20 Episode 5
A Hungarian wonder tale from Elek Benedek's great collection of Hungarian folk tales and legends. A golden-haired prince will not marry and will not …
5 hours ago