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Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 9 of 24 (The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar)
Season 16 Episode 9
An old performing monkey, grown too stiff to dance as he once did, overhears his master send for the butcher — after a lifetime of faithful service, …
4 days ago
Myths of the Cherokee — Part 20 of 22 (Plant Lore)
Season 12 Episode 20
Plant Lore — the shelf's finale, Mooney's survey of the vegetable kingdom, compressed for the ear. The naming poetry ('it is married,' 'they pull eac…
4 days ago
Popol Vuh — Part 8 of 15 (The Death of the Twins and the Fall of Xibalba)
Season 13 Episode 8
In The Head Restored, Xbalanque convokes all the beasts in the night, small and great, and each chooses its food; last comes the Turtle, and it is se…
4 days ago
The Thousand and One Nights — The Bimaristan — Part Two
Season 8 Episode 349
The young merchant's story concludes: the seven days at home, a gold cassolette offered for a single kiss, and a wife's terrible test of his faith — …
4 days ago
Northern Tales — Part 5 of 22 (The Reindeer-Breeder and the Aiwan · The Orphan · Object-of-Loathing · The Visitor)
Season 18 Episode 5
A wealthy breeder's youngest daughter is given in marriage to an Aiwan hunter who slaughters her whole herd — and the Upper Being, who keeps the slau…
4 days ago
Nasreddin Hodja — Part 6 of 20 (I See You All Day)
Season 17 Episode 6
Seventeen more anecdotes of the Hodja. At a wedding feast his old clothes earn him no honour at all, so he fetches his fur coat, is seated at the hea…
4 days ago
Popol Vuh — Part 7 of 15 (The Descent into Xibalba — the Houses of Trial)
Season 13 Episode 7
In The Descent into Xibalba, Hunahpu and Xbalanque go down the steep stairways, cross the rivers upon their blowguns, and send the mosquito Xan ahead…
4 days ago
Myths of the Cherokee — Part 15 of 22 (Ga'na's Adventures among the Cherokee · Cowee Town)
Season 12 Episode 15
The peace embassy part. The two Seneca sisters escape by night with the baby and are guided home by voices — the origin of the Yontoñwisas dance, fro…
4 days ago
Folk Tales of India — Part 9 of 81 (The Adventures of Two Thieves)
Season 15 Episode 9
Two famous thieves give up their trade and try honest work — one to water a champaka plant that drinks a hundred buckets and is never wet, the other …
4 days ago
Myths of the Cherokee — Part 16 of 22 (The Southern and Western Tribes)
Season 12 Episode 16
Mooney's tribal survey of the south and west, compressed for the ear in his own order and structure. The Creek confederacy and the Georgia boundary; …
4 days ago