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Folk Tales of France — Part 4 (Jean the Sharp and Jean the Fool · The Jaguens' Journey to Paris · The King of France's Son and the Jaguen · The Rector Robbed)
Season 22 Episode 4
Part Four of Folk Tales of France opens the book's second section, the jests and merry tricks, with four Breton farces in our own translation: two br…
2 days, 22 hours ago
Folk Tales of India — Part 14 of 81 (The Field of Bones, Part Two)
Season 15 Episode 14
The escape by ship, and a princess abandoned by the very friends she saved — who walks to their own city, proclaims herself a heaven-born dice-player…
2 days, 22 hours ago
Folk Tales of the Philippines — Part 1 (Suan's Good Luck · Suan Eket · Suac and his Adventures · The Three Friends)
Season 23 Episode 1
KacheliTV opens a new shelf: the folk tales of the Philippines, in Dean S. Fansler's Filipino Popular Tales of 1921 — stories Filipino storytellers w…
2 days, 23 hours ago
Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 13 of 24 (The White Hare and the Crocodiles)
Season 16 Episode 13
A little white hare on the island of Oki longs to cross the sea to Inaba, and wins his way by a trick: he coaxes a crocodile into a contest of number…
3 days ago
Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 7 (The Psalm-Singing Bird)
Season 20 Episode 7
A god-fearing king builds a church of gold and diamonds — and will not set foot in it until someone brings him the psalm-singing bird, wherever in th…
3 days ago
Nasreddin Hodja — Part 10 of 20 (Don't Believe It)
Season 17 Episode 10
Twelve more anecdotes of the Hodja, from the minaret of Konia to the door of the Kaaba and home to the neighbours and animals of the old folk book. P…
3 days ago
The Gatiloke — Part 7 of 23 (The Worship of the Pond Water · The Dangko Tree · The Black Bull · Grandmother Tep · Mount Krom and Mount Trangil · Ta Hua Lan and His Two Sons-in-Law · The Fool Who Rode the Buffalo)
Season 21 Episode 7
The Gatiloke opens the treatise of the Eight Worldly Conditions — gain and loss, fame and disgrace, blame and praise, pleasure and pain — and turns o…
3 days ago
Northern Tales — Part 9 of 22 (Raven and She-Fox · The Boy who married the Sun)
Season 18 Episode 9
A Raven who has nothing to eat flies out to the middle of the sea, sits down on the ice above the house of the Sea-Spirit, and answers so courteously…
3 days ago
Folk Tales of France — Part 3 (The Dog Captain · Jean the Simple)
Season 22 Episode 3
Two more tales from Paul Sébillot's Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne (Paris, 1880), the great collection of the folk tales of Upper Brittany, i…
3 days ago
Folk Tales of India — Part 13 of 81 (The Field of Bones, Part One)
Season 15 Episode 13
Four friends spend a night in a forest temple, each keeping one watch — and each sees the hermit speak one secret word: the first calls the scattered…
3 days, 1 hour ago