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Nasreddin Hodja — Part 7 of 20 (His Fortune Came to Me)
Season 17 Episode 7
Twenty-two more anecdotes of the Hodja. He scolds his rooster for knowing that morning is coming in the middle of the night, yet losing the way in br…
12 hours ago
Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 5 of 19 (Yuki-Onna · The Story of Aoyagi)
Season 19 Episode 5
Two tales from Kwaidan. In Yuki-Onna, two woodcutters, Mosaku and Minokichi, are overtaken by a terrible snowstorm and take shelter in a ferryman's h…
12 hours ago
Northern Tales — Part 6 of 22 (The Polygamist · The Giant · Reindeer-Born)
Season 18 Episode 6
A neglected older wife, carried away on an ice-floe to a far shore, is pitied and taken in by Sun-Man and sent home in plenty to the husband who wron…
12 hours ago
Popol Vuh — Part 9 of 15 (The Making of Maize Man)
Season 13 Episode 9
In The Finding of the Maize, the Bearer and the Begetter, Tepeu and Gucumatz, take counsel in the darkness upon what must enter into the flesh of man…
12 hours ago
Manas — The Earliest Recordings — Part 17 of 31 (Semetey — Part One)
Season 11 Episode 17
Semetey is grown, and the forty friends his father left him are old men. When he calls them to ride, they saddle for him one last time and do not com…
12 hours ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 3 (The Romani Boy)
Season 20 Episode 3
A Hungarian wonder tale from Elek Benedek's great collection of Hungarian folk tales and legends. A king's silk-garden is grazed bare every night, an…
12 hours ago
The Gatiloke — Part 2 of 23 (Ta Thaen and His Three Students)
Season 21 Episode 2
The book's first part closes with its longest tale — and its sharpest. Ta Thaen is a novice who drinks in secret, and when his money runs out he inve…
12 hours ago
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, …
12 hours 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…
12 hours 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…
12 hours ago