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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 …
3 days, 3 hours 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…
3 days, 3 hours 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…
3 days, 3 hours ago
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 …
3 days, 7 hours 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…
3 days, 9 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…
3 days, 9 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 days, 10 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 days, 10 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: …
3 days, 11 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…
3 days, 11 hours ago