Episode Details

Twenty more anecdotes of the Hodja. A doctor who shuts his eyes at the burial ground, vinegar that needed a year to become itself, a dreadful book of poems praised to its author's face, and a letter that turns out to be a tax bill — then the donkeys arrive and the episode is theirs: a donkey consulted about his own lending, a donkey braying indoors while his master swears he is out, eight donkeys counted as seven and then as eight, a donkey thanked for a rescue he never made, and a donkey formally asked where the cloak has gone. Also here: the tailor who dreamed of Judgment Day, the land where even pebbles fly a flag of gold, and the chicks put into mourning for their mother.

From Der Hodscha Nasreddin by Albert Wesselski (1911), public domain; told in a fresh in-house rendering.

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Chapters:

0:00 Opening

0:05 The Doctor and the Graveyard

0:25 A Year Old

1:06 Not a Word

1:48 Read It Differently

2:21 Ask the Donkey First

2:49 Bray All You Like

3:19 The Donkey as Kadi

3:41 Not at Home

4:13 The Frogs at the Puddle

4:52 Back on the Ground

5:14 The Pregnant Melon

6:06 Would That It Were True

6:40 Bray Like a Donkey

7:20 Think of the Collar

8:18 Gold or Stones

9:20 Seven, Then Eight

9:59 Raised Together

10:46 Where Is My Cloak?

11:47 Still Something to Seek

12:33 Mourning for Their Mother