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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…
3 days, 15 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…
3 days, 15 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 …
3 days, 16 hours ago
Manas — The Earliest Recordings — Part 18 of 31 (Semetey — Part Two)
Season 11 Episode 18
Semetey dreams — the poplar trembling at its root, the sea surging at its ground — and Ai Chorok reads the dream and bars his way with her own body, …
3 days, 16 hours ago
Popol Vuh — Part 10 of 15 (Fire in the Darkness)
Season 13 Episode 10
In The Journey to Tulan, the hearts of Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Agab, Mahucutah and Iqi-Balam weary of waiting for the sun, and they resolve to seek keepe…
3 days, 16 hours ago
Nasreddin Hodja — Part 8 of 20 (The Centre of the World)
Season 17 Episode 8
Ten more anecdotes of the Hodja, and this time the court is his stage. Led in as a witness, he asks whether the lying must be about barley or about c…
3 days, 16 hours ago
Northern Tales — Part 7 of 22 (Tale about Qolento · The Girl in the Stone Chest)
Season 18 Episode 7
A scabbed and starving orphan, fed in the dark by a Kele who pities him and made whole again, crosses the sea with his eight uncles paddling, to win …
3 days, 16 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 11 of 24 (The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower)
Season 16 Episode 11
An old man and his wife have one treasure: Shiro, the white dog they love like the child they never had. When Shiro scents gold beneath the yenoki tr…
3 days, 16 hours ago
Folk Tales of France — Part 1 (The Three Gifts · The Miller's Four Sons)
Season 22 Episode 1
The Three Gifts. A little shepherd boy, kept in rags by a stepmother who starves him on a scrap of bread, shares that scrap three days running with a…
3 days, 16 hours ago
The Gatiloke — Part 4 of 23 (The Monk Who Built a Vihara · The Opium-Addicted Oknha · The Lamb and the Wild Dog · The Old Brahmin with a Young Wife)
Season 21 Episode 4
The Gatiloke's Rascal Chapter rolls on. A rascal dressed as a master of timber rafts measures the old vihara, wins the abbot's trust with a watch and…
3 days, 16 hours ago