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Folk Tales of Jamaica — Part 2 (Throwing Away Knives · Grace Before Meat · House in the Air · Dog and Dog-head · Tacoomah's Corn-piece · The Grave · Inside the Cow · The Duckano Tree)
Season 25 Episode 2
KacheliTV returns to Jamaica, and to Martha Warren Beckwith's Jamaica Anansi Stories of 1924 — tales told to her by Jamaican storytellers, whose name…
2 days, 7 hours ago
The Gatiloke — Part 8 of 23 (Nang Amara and the Four Teachers · The Pregnant Crocodile and the Monkey's Liver · The Crow and the Sampoch · The Jackal and the Lion)
Season 21 Episode 8
The Gatiloke goes on with the treatise of the Eight Worldly Conditions — gain and loss, fame and disgrace, blame and praise, pleasure and pain — and …
2 days, 7 hours ago
Folk Tales of France — Part 5 (The Pact · The Ghost's Mass)
Season 22 Episode 5
Part Five of Folk Tales of France opens the book's third section, the diableries, sorceries and tales of revenants, with two tales in our own transla…
2 days, 7 hours ago
Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 10 of 19 (Story of a Tengu · The Reconciliation · A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu)
Season 19 Episode 10
Three pieces closing one book and opening the next. Story of a Tengu, the last tale of In Ghostly Japan, tells of a priest of Hiyei-Zan who ransoms a…
2 days, 7 hours ago
Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 3 (Prince Spin Head and Miss Snow White · The Boar with the Golden Bristles)
Season 24 Episode 3
Part Three 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…
2 days, 7 hours ago
Northern Tales — Part 11 of 22 (Little-Bird-Man and Raven-Man · Big-Raven and the Mice · The Mouse-Girls · How a Small Kamak was transformed into a Harpoon-Line · Big-Raven and the Kamaks · Kĭlu' and the Bumblebees)
Season 18 Episode 11
Six tales open the Big-Raven cycle of Bogoras's Koryak Texts — the Koryak creator-trickster and his household, in the book's own order. Raven-Man, wh…
2 days, 7 hours ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 9 (The Thirteen Swans)
Season 20 Episode 9
A poor man's golden-haired twins are raised by the King as prince and princess — until a quarrel at dice in the garden, a brother's angry curse, and …
2 days, 7 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 15 of 24 (The Ogre of Rashomon · How an Old Man Lost His Wen)
Season 16 Episode 15
Two tales from old Japan. First, the Ogre of Rashomon: all Kyoto fears to pass the great gate after sunset, and Watanabe, one of Raiko's five knights…
2 days, 8 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 14 of 24 (Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach)
Season 16 Episode 14
An old man and an old woman, childless all their lives, find a great peach floating down the river — and inside it a beautiful boy, Heaven's answer t…
2 days, 9 hours ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 8 (The Green King)
Season 20 Episode 8
A rich shopkeeper's youngest son will not tell his dream — and so he is left at home when his brothers ride to the Green King's court, and on the roa…
2 days, 9 hours ago