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The Gatiloke — Part 6 of 23 (The Sage Dhananjaya and the Scholars of Lanka · King Bimbisara's Ministers and Prince Ajatasattu · The Elder Dhaniya and the Chief Accountant)
Season 21 Episode 6
The Gatiloke turns to the wise — and to what a wise man is worth. A scholar of Lanka comes to break the sages of Ayutthaya in a duel of riddles, and …
2 days, 10 hours ago
Folk Tales of the Philippines — Part 2 (The King's Decisions · The Four Blind Brothers · Juan the Blind Man · Teofilo the Hunchback and the Giant · Juan and the Buringcantada · The Manglalabas)
Season 23 Episode 2
Part 2 of Folk Tales of the Philippines opens with a king whose judgments are as absurd as they are famous, and then settles into the book's own fami…
2 days, 10 hours ago
Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 2 (The Princess with Twenty Petticoats · The Cat and the Cradle)
Season 24 Episode 2
Part Two 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, 10 hours ago
The Thousand and One Nights — Attaf the Generous — Part Two
Season 8 Episode 354
Giafar rides out of Damascus with the bride Attaf surrendered to him — but slander follows her litter home. A body planted in a garden, a confession …
2 days, 11 hours ago
Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 9 of 19 (A Passional Karma)
Season 19 Episode 9
Hearn's telling of the Romance of the Peony-Lantern, entire. Hagiwara Shinzaburō, a young hatamoto's son, meets the beautiful O-Tsuyu at the Bon fest…
2 days, 11 hours ago
Folk Tales of Jamaica — Part 1 (The Fish-basket · The Storm · Tiger as Riding-horse · Tiger's Sheep-skin Suit · The Substitute · Tiger's Breakfast · Eggs and Scorpions · Tiger's Bone-hole · The Christening)
Season 25 Episode 1
KacheliTV opens a new shelf: the folk tales of Jamaica, in Martha Warren Beckwith's Jamaica Anansi Stories of 1924 — tales Jamaican storytellers told…
2 days, 11 hours ago
Folk Tales of India — Part 11 of 81 (The Story of a Hiraman)
Season 15 Episode 11
A fowler catches a beautiful hiraman parrot — who speaks, and sets his own price: ten thousand rupees. In the palace the bird recites the names of al…
2 days, 11 hours ago
Folk Tales of India — Part 12 of 81 (The Origin of Rubies · The Match-making Jackal · The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged)
Season 15 Episode 12
Three shorter tales. The first tells how rubies came out of the sea, from a palace beneath a whirlpool where a lady lies in a trance deeper than slee…
2 days, 11 hours ago
Northern Tales — Part 10 of 22 (The Carrier of Seaweed · The One without Arms · The Girl who watched in the Night-Time · Creation of the World · The Old Woman and the Wild Beasts · The Man who used Magic against the Storm)
Season 18 Episode 10
Ten tales from the Siberian Eskimo villages of Bogoras's The Eskimo of Siberia — the whole buildable corpus of the book in a single sitting. A boy ca…
2 days, 11 hours ago
Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 1 (The Entangled Mermaid · The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese)
Season 24 Episode 1
KacheliTV opens a new shelf: the folk tales of the Netherlands, in William Elliot Griffis's Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks of 1918 — the old tales…
2 days, 13 hours ago