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Armenian Folk Tales — Part 1: The Fairy Nightingale
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One tale opens a new shelf: from "The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia" (Cleveland and New York, 1898), collected and told by A. G. Seklemian (1864–1920), an Armenian scholar and pastor who settled in America and set down the tales as he had heard them from the mouths of the people. Billed by collector and book, exactly as printed in 1898; not a survey of all Armenian tales, and no completeness is claimed for one tale of twenty-nine.
The Fairy Nightingale — a king builds a splendid church, and three times a mysterious monk comes out of the fog to tell him that one thing is lacking: the Fairy Nightingale. His three sons set out by three roads — one from which a traveller returns, one from which he may return or may not, and one from which he never returns. The youngest wins what strength cannot take, and he wins it by courtesy: he praises a poisoned river as the water of immortality, a thorn grove as the flower of Paradise; he gives the meat to the wolf and the grass to the lamb, opens the door that was shut and shuts the door that was open. Left in a well by his own brothers, he is drawn out by women gleaning barley — and his first act in the city is to set those brothers free. A tale of courtesy, gratitude and forgiveness, read exactly as printed in 1898.
Twenty-two of the book's tales wait for the parts that follow; six were set aside under the channel's content law, each named in the shelf's register.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:44 The Fairy Nightingale
A. G. Seklemian, The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia (Cleveland and New York: The Helman-Taylor Company, 1898) — public domain.
Narrated by Scratch. Music: opening and closing theme, "Before the Pines End 2" — heard at the introduction and the close only; the tale itself is read dry.
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