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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, …
7 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…
7 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…
7 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 …
7 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…
7 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…
7 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…
7 hours ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 4 (The Three Golden Rings)
Season 20 Episode 4
A Hungarian wonder tale from Elek Benedek's great collection of Hungarian folk tales and legends. A widowed king remarries, and his little son — kept…
8 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 10 of 24 (The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher)
Season 16 Episode 10
Hohodemi, the Happy Hunter of the Mountains, trades callings with his brother the Skillful Fisher for a single day — and loses his brother's one prec…
8 hours ago
The Gatiloke — Part 3 of 23 (The Rascal, Sok, and the Crofter's Son · The Slave)
Season 21 Episode 3
Two more tales from the Gatiloke, told in a fresh English rendering from the Khmer. First, the rascal Sok returns — falsely accused, condemned by a s…
8 hours ago