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Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 14 of 19 (The Story of Kogi the Priest · In a Cup of Tea · Common Sense)
Season 19 Episode 14
Part fourteen of nineteen. Three more of Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese ghost tales, in his own prose — The Story of Kogi the Priest closes A Japanese Mis…
2 days, 3 hours ago
Folk Tales of France — Part 8 (The Legend of Saint Mauron · The Death of the Rat · The Legend of Saint Lénard · Vadoyer · The Little Girl in a Well)
Season 22 Episode 8
Folk Tales of France, Part Eight — five tales from the Contes divers, last division of Sébillot's first Breton volume, in a fresh translation; what t…
2 days, 3 hours ago
Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 6 (The Woman with Three Hundred and Sixty-Six Children)
Season 24 Episode 6
Part Six of Folk Tales of the Netherlands continues William Elliot Griffis's Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks of 1918 in our own telling, with the b…
2 days, 4 hours ago
Folk Tales of the Philippines — Part 6 (The King and the Dervish · The Mysterious Book)
Season 23 Episode 6
Part 6 of Folk Tales of the Philippines is a pair of magic-duel tales about one power in two forms: the power to leave your own body, or to change it…
2 days, 4 hours ago
The Gatiloke — Part 12 of 23 (The Deer, the Crow and the Tortoise · The King of the Doves and His Retinue · The Mouse and the Mother Cat · The Man with a Perfect Wife and the Man with an Ill-Omened Wife · The Two Goats Who Fought over the Path)
Season 21 Episode 12
The Gatiloke stays in the book's fifth part. A deer caught in a hunter's snare is freed by his friends' night-long labour, and repays it by carrying …
2 days, 4 hours ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 12 (Peter and Paul of the Waters)
Season 20 Episode 12
An old king dreams that his daughter pours two pitchers of water upon the ground, and the water rises and floods the whole world — and the wise men r…
2 days, 4 hours ago
Folk Tales of Denmark — Part 2 (The Little Wild Duck)
Season 27 Episode 2
Part Two takes Folk Tales of Denmark to Jutland, to the tales Evald Tang Kristensen gathered from the mouths of the Jutland folk in the nineteenth ce…
2 days, 5 hours ago
Tales of Ancient Egypt — Part 2 (The Doomed Prince)
Season 26 Episode 2
Part 2 of the Egyptian tales is a single story, and one of the most famous the papyri have kept: "The Doomed Prince," from the second series of Petri…
2 days, 5 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 20 of 24 (Little Silver's Dream of the Shoji · The Tengus, or the Elves with Long Noses · Jiraiya, or the Magic Frog)
Season 16 Episode 20
Three more tales from old Japan continue the shelf's second book — William Elliot Griffis's Japanese Fairy World. First, Little Silver's Dream of the…
2 days, 5 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 19 of 24 (The Seven Patrons of Happiness · Daikoku and the Oni · Benkei and the Bell)
Season 16 Episode 19
Three more tales from old Japan continue the shelf's second book — William Elliot Griffis's Japanese Fairy World. First, the Seven Patrons of Happine…
2 days, 5 hours ago