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Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 13 of 24 (The White Hare and the Crocodiles)
Season 16 Episode 13
A little white hare on the island of Oki longs to cross the sea to Inaba, and wins his way by a trick: he coaxes a crocodile into a contest of number…
11 minutes ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 7 (The Psalm-Singing Bird)
Season 20 Episode 7
A god-fearing king builds a church of gold and diamonds — and will not set foot in it until someone brings him the psalm-singing bird, wherever in th…
11 minutes ago
Nasreddin Hodja — Part 10 of 20 (Don't Believe It)
Season 17 Episode 10
Twelve more anecdotes of the Hodja, from the minaret of Konia to the door of the Kaaba and home to the neighbours and animals of the old folk book. P…
11 minutes ago
The Gatiloke — Part 7 of 23 (The Worship of the Pond Water · The Dangko Tree · The Black Bull · Grandmother Tep · Mount Krom and Mount Trangil · Ta Hua Lan and His Two Sons-in-Law · The Fool Who Rode the Buffalo)
Season 21 Episode 7
The Gatiloke opens the treatise of the Eight Worldly Conditions — gain and loss, fame and disgrace, blame and praise, pleasure and pain — and turns o…
11 minutes ago
Northern Tales — Part 9 of 22 (Raven and She-Fox · The Boy who married the Sun)
Season 18 Episode 9
A Raven who has nothing to eat flies out to the middle of the sea, sits down on the ice above the house of the Sea-Spirit, and answers so courteously…
11 minutes ago
Folk Tales of France — Part 3 (The Dog Captain · Jean the Simple)
Season 22 Episode 3
Two more tales from Paul Sébillot's Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne (Paris, 1880), the great collection of the folk tales of Upper Brittany, i…
11 minutes ago
Folk Tales of India — Part 13 of 81 (The Field of Bones, Part One)
Season 15 Episode 13
Four friends spend a night in a forest temple, each keeping one watch — and each sees the hermit speak one secret word: the first calls the scattered…
33 minutes ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 12 of 24 (The Jelly Fish and the Monkey)
Season 16 Episode 12
The young Dragon Queen lies ill in the coral palace at the bottom of the sea, and the fish doctor names the one cure: the liver of a live monkey. So …
37 minutes ago
Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 1 of 19 (The Story of O-Tei · Ubazakura · Of a Mirror and a Bell · Mujina)
Season 19 Episode 1
A betrothal kept beyond death, a cherry tree that blooms each year on the anniversary of a nurse's sacrifice, a mirror that would not melt for the te…
38 minutes ago
The Gatiloke — Part 5 of 23 (The Sampoch Bird and the Hen · Isvara's Eagle · The Orphan Boy and the King · The King and the Buffalo-Herd Boy · The Kanlong Bird and the Kingkok)
Season 21 Episode 5
The Gatiloke turns to wisdom answering power. A sampoch bird brings a hen a royal proclamation — all enemies are reconciled now — and invites her dow…
38 minutes ago