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KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud. Open the matryoshka, and the stories nest one inside another: fables, fairy tales, and poems from old Russia, in fresh English verse translations, each read over a gentle instrumental bed. The library opens with Ivan Krylov, Russia's beloved fabulist — some two hundred fables of crows and foxes, wolves and cranes, each a few minutes long with a moral that still lands two centuries later. Five fables to an episode. Beyond him wait Baba Yaga in her hut and the Firebird in the tsar's garden, Pushkin's tales, Yesenin's poems, Tolstoy's folk tales, Chekhov's stories — one shelf at a time, one author at a time. From KacheliTV, Gulfport, Florida — old stories, new meanings. Старые истории, новые смыслы.
Episodes
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The Gatiloke — Part 10 of 23 (The Two Rats Who Were Friends · The Jackal Who Was Greedy for Food · The Village Dog with the Neck-Band · The Pregnant Bitch Who Gave Birth · The Jackal and the Tung Bird · The Tung Bird and the Fish)
The Gatiloke — Part 10 of 23 (The Two Rats Who Were Friends · The Jackal Who Was Greedy for Food · The Village Dog with the Neck-Band · The Pregnant Bitch Who Gave Birth · The Jackal and the Tung Bird · The Tung Bird and the Fish) The Gatiloke goes on from the book's fourth part into its fifth,...
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Folk Tales of Jamaica — Part 3 (The Riddle · The Cowitch and Mr. Foolman · Dry-head · Brother Dead · Tumble-bug and Anansi · Horse and Anansi · The Fishes · White-belly and Fish · The Rain · The Dance · Turtle's Escape)
KacheliTV returns to Jamaica, and to Martha Warren Beckwith's Jamaica Anansi Stories of 1924 — tales Jamaican storytellers told her, their names kept. Anansi the spider-man — small, hungry, and quick — is the hero of them all. "The Riddle" sets a king a verse no wit could open, and rides a...
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Folk Tales of the Philippines — Part 4 (The Three Brothers · Pablo and the Princess · Legend of Prince Oswaldo)
Part 4 of Folk Tales of the Philippines is a trio of quests won by skill, by kindness, and by a love that will not shoot: three brothers who find a lost princess between a spy-glass, a ship, and a thief's quick hands; three friends whose gifts cure a princess, and whose king can find no way to...
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Folk Tales of Denmark — Part 1 (King Dragon)
Part One opens Folk Tales of Denmark, our telling of the folk tales Svend Grundtvig collected from the mouths of the Danish people in the nineteenth century, in fresh translations made here from the Danish. The shelf opens with the most famous of them all, a tale from Vendsyssel in the north of...
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Tales of Ancient Egypt — Part 1 (The Shipwrecked Sailor · Baufra's Tale)
KacheliTV opens a new shelf: the tales of ancient Egypt, in Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri — the stories the Egyptians themselves wrote down on papyrus more than three thousand years ago, in W. M. Flinders Petrie's translation of 1895, and read here in our own telling. Part 1 begins...
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Northern Tales — Part 12 of 22 (Eme´mqut's Whale-Festival · Eme´mqut and Ila' · Eme´mqut and Fox-Woman · Ermine-People — I · Ermine-People — II · Eme´mqut and the Kamaks · Eme´mqut and Shellfish-Girl · Eme´mqut and the Perches · Miti' and Magpie-Man)
Nine tales continue the Big-Raven cycle of Bogoras's Koryak Texts — Ememqut at the whale thanksgiving, where the Magpie-, Fox- and Raven-Women dance their shame-songs and are answered; Ememqut keeping the old man's rule of the ornamented mortars, and Ila breaking it; Fox-Woman's shame-song at the...
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Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 11 of 19 (The Screen-Maiden · The Corpse-Rider)
Two pieces from Shadowings, the third and fourth of its Stories from Strange Books. In The Screen-Maiden, the young Kyoto scholar Tokkei falls hopelessly in love with a girl painted on an old paper screen — a portrait by Hishigawa Kichibei, painted from life, in which her very spirit is said to...
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The Gatiloke — Part 9 of 23 (A Discourse on Foolishness, and the Fable of an Old Man · Miscellaneous Maxims, and the Fable of the Lazy Cicada · The Land Crow Who Imitated the Water Crow · The Three Quadrupeds: a Jackal, a Monkey and a Wild Dog)
The Gatiloke goes on into the book's fourth part, where the discourse on foolishness gives way to fables. An old yogi, who burned corpses for his living, forgets his years for love of a young girl, and a woman of pleasure takes him for everything he has, down to his mat and his pillow. A cicada...
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Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 4 (The Ice King and His Wonderful Grandchild · The Elves and Their Antics)
Part Four 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 book's seventh and eighth tales, in his order. "The Ice King and His Wonderful Grandchild" is Uller, the good fairy of the ice whose home was Ulrum…
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Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 10 (Fairy Elizabeth)
The youngest of three poor brothers serves out his year honestly, and his bushel of wages comes up pure gold — until a woodpecker snatches one golden ear and he chases it into the deep forest, to sleep the night in a giant's coat-sleeve and wake as the giant's adopted son. Wanting to marry, he is...
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Folk Tales of the Philippines — Part 3 (Sagacious Marcela · King Tasio · Lucas the Strong)
Part 3 of Folk Tales of the Philippines is a contest of wits, twice over, and then a contest of strength: a servant's daughter who answers a king's impossible errands until he has nothing left to ask; a palace servant who out-riddles his king with a rope of sand and a squash in a jar; and a lazy...
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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)
KacheliTV returns to Jamaica, and to Martha Warren Beckwith's Jamaica Anansi Stories of 1924 — tales told to her by Jamaican storytellers, whose names she kept. Anansi the spider-man — small, hungry, and quick — is the hero of them all, and Part 2 goes on through the animal stories. "Throwing…
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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)
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 with the follies that hunger breeds. Nang Amara, left behind when her husband the sage was slandered out of the court, receives the four teachers…
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Folk Tales of France — Part 5 (The Pact · The Ghost's Mass)
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 translation: a lonely farmer who signs the Devil's pact for a wife, and is saved on his wedding night by the one thing he cannot do; and a sleeper in a...
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Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 10 of 19 (Story of a Tengu · The Reconciliation · A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu)
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 snared kite from the boys who are beating it for its feathers — and is visited on the road by a monk who is no monk, who grants him his life's one...
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Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 3 (Prince Spin Head and Miss Snow White · The Boar with the Golden Bristles)
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 book's fifth and sixth tales, in his order. "Prince Spin Head and Miss Snow White" is Drifa, called Snow White, the forest maiden who grew up among...
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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)
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, who eats in secret and makes water in his boots, steals the sun into his mouth, and loses it to a tickle and a laugh; the Mouse-Girls dance on the…
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Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 9 (The Thirteen Swans)
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 a seven-headed dragon who seizes the girl and vanishes with her as if the earth had swallowed her up. Miklós dares not face the King and wanders the...
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Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 15 of 24 (The Ogre of Rashomon · How an Old Man Lost His Wen)
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, rides out on a wager to prove the ogre a rumor — and comes home with the ogre's own huge arm as his trophy, sealed in an iron-banded box that he...
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Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 14 of 24 (Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach)
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 to their long lament. They name him Momotaro, Son of a Peach. At fifteen he is taller and far stronger than any boy in the country, and he asks his...
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Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 8 (The Green King)
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 road back he is pushed from the great sea-bridge and given up for lost. But a barge is drifting on the sea, and in it the Green King's stolen youngest...
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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)
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 Dhananjaya answers him with a circle of arms, a fist and five fingers — and afterwards answers a minister who comes fishing for the meaning with a...
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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)
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 family of five tellings of one beloved story: two poor companions — one who cannot see, one who cannot walk — who bluff giants, robbers, and a ghost out...
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Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 2 (The Princess with Twenty Petticoats · The Cat and the Cradle)
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 book's third and fourth tales, in his order. "The Princess with Twenty Petticoats" is the little princess who gazed at her face in the pools, stamped...
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The Thousand and One Nights — Attaf the Generous — Part Two
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 made to spare his neighbours, a rope at the gallows, and a jailer who keeps faith: the book's remaining pages come true, until Attaf himself stands...
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Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 9 of 19 (A Passional Karma)
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 festival, and she comes to him night after night through the summer dark, her maid O-Yoné going before her with a lantern painted with peonies, the…
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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)
KacheliTV opens a new shelf: the folk tales of Jamaica, in Martha Warren Beckwith's Jamaica Anansi Stories of 1924 — tales Jamaican storytellers told her, and she wrote down with their names. Anansi the spider-man — small, hungry, and quick — is the hero of them all, and his great victim is Brer...
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Folk Tales of India — Part 11 of 81 (The Story of a Hiraman)
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 all the gods, outwits six jealous queens, and sends his king across the seven oceans and thirteen rivers after a lady of peerless beauty. When the…
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Folk Tales of India — Part 12 of 81 (The Origin of Rubies · The Match-making Jackal · The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged)
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 sleep beside the god Siva. The second follows the cleverest match-maker in Bengal — a jackal, who chews betel-leaves like a lord and marries a poor…
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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)
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 carries his seaweed home through the eye of a needle; the One without Arms, born of a finger-long Fish-Woman, spins through the air above two villages...
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Folk Tales of the Netherlands — Part 1 (The Entangled Mermaid · The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese)
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 of Holland as Griffis retold them for young readers, and read here in our own telling. Part 1 begins where the book begins, with the first two…
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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)
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 brothers, one sharp and one simple; a whole village that sails to Paris and back without leaving home; a fishmonger who carries great news to the…
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Folk Tales of India — Part 14 of 81 (The Field of Bones, Part Two)
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, and wins back everything, including the prince who doubted her. Then the four friends return at last to the field of bones, to turn the hermit's...
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Folk Tales of the Philippines — Part 1 (Suan's Good Luck · Suan Eket · Suac and his Adventures · The Three Friends)
KacheliTV opens a new shelf: the folk tales of the Philippines, in Dean S. Fansler's Filipino Popular Tales of 1921 — stories Filipino storytellers wrote down in English before the First World War. Part 1 begins where the book begins — the two tellings of the Suan cycle — and goes on to the…
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Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 13 of 24 (The White Hare and the Crocodiles)
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 numbers and talks the whole company into lying back to back across the water, then hops over them, counting aloud, until he stands safe on the mainland —...
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Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 7 (The Psalm-Singing Bird)
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 the world it may be. His youngest son rides a táltos horse past three enchanted wells, where three maidens wait out twelve years of captivity, and...
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Nasreddin Hodja — Part 10 of 20 (Don't Believe It)
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. Playing hide-and-seek, he leaves Akschehir altogether and hides for days in a minaret, calling down to the searchers: bring the money, I have won....
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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)
The Gatiloke opens the treatise of the Eight Worldly Conditions — gain and loss, fame and disgrace, blame and praise, pleasure and pain — and turns on what foolish people worship when they will not stop to think. A buffalo's healed eyes make a shrine of a pond, until the authorities come to…
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Northern Tales — Part 9 of 22 (Raven and She-Fox · The Boy who married the Sun)
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 when the Spirit tries on his coat that he comes home to a house filled with ringed seals and fish of every kind; but when his wife the Fox goes...
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Folk Tales of France — Part 3 (The Dog Captain · Jean the Simple)
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, in a fresh English translation made for this series from the original French. The Dog Captain. A ship out of Marseille sails herself across the sea,...
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Folk Tales of India — Part 13 of 81 (The Field of Bones, Part One)
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 bones together, the second joins them bone to bone, the third clothes them with flesh, and the fourth breathes life into a deer. Eager to prove…
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Fairy Tales of Japan — Part 12 of 24 (The Jelly Fish and the Monkey)
The young Dragon Queen lies ill in the coral palace at the bottom of the sea, and the fish doctor names the one cure: the liver of a live monkey. So the kurage — the jelly fish, who in those ancient days had a hard shell and four legs like a tortoise — is sent ashore to Monkey Island to win a...
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Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 1 of 19 (The Story of O-Tei · Ubazakura · Of a Mirror and a Bell · Mujina)
A betrothal kept beyond death, a cherry tree that blooms each year on the anniversary of a nurse's sacrifice, a mirror that would not melt for the temple bell, and a faceless thing on a dark road above the moat. Four tales from Kwaidan open the shelf: The Story of O-Tei, who returns seventeen…
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The Gatiloke — Part 5 of 23 (The Sampoch Bird and the Hen · Isvara's Eagle · The Orphan Boy and the King · The King and the Buffalo-Herd Boy · The Kanlong Bird and the Kingkok)
The Gatiloke turns to wisdom answering power. A sampoch bird brings a hen a royal proclamation — all enemies are reconciled now — and invites her down to embrace; the hen, who knows a lie the instant she hears one, sends it fleeing from a dog that never comes. Isvara's eagle, which eats whatever...
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Popol Vuh — Part 11 of 15 (The Dawn)
In The Hiding of the Gods, Tohil, Avilix and Hacavitz speak to Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Agab, Mahucutah and Iqi-Balam: the dawn draws near, and they must be carried away and hidden, each one separately, lest the enemy take them within the walls; and the fathers carry them into the woods — Avilix into...
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Hungarian Folk Tales — Part 6 (The Water of Eternal Youth)
An old king has one eye that always laughs and one that always weeps — and only his youngest son dares to ask him why. The answer sends the boy out on a wondrous quest: beyond sky-high mountains and three ancient grandmothers, over the Blue Sea to the seventy-seventh island, where Fairy Ilona's...
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Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 8 of 19 (Fragment · Furisodé · A Story of Divination)
Three pieces from In Ghostly Japan, opening Hearn's 1899 collection. Fragment is a vision entire: a pilgrim follows his Bodhisattva guide up a mountain through the night, climbing over endlessly breaking fragments, until dawn reveals what the mountain is made of — and whose lives its skulls once...
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Folk Tales of France — Part 2 (The Houle of La Corbière · The Grass Snake · The Girl and Her Seven Brothers)
Three more tales from Paul Sébillot's Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne (Paris, 1880), the great collection of the folk tales of Upper Brittany, in a fresh English translation made for this series from the original French. In Saint-Cast, Agnès Depais lives beside the Houle of the fairies…
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Popular Tales from the Norse — Part 8 of 14 (The Best Wish)
Three brothers hold one wish each. The two elder wish for pockets that are never empty of money; Boots, the youngest, wishes that every woman who sees him might fall in love with him — and for his pains is sent to the road as his brothers' servant. Three innkeepers' wives in turn give the…
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Japanese Ghost Tales — Part 6 of 19 (The Dream of Akinosuke · Riki-Baka)
Two tales from Kwaidan. In The Dream of Akinosuke, the gōshi Miyata Akinosuké, napping beneath the great cedar in his garden, dreams an entire life: summoned in a lacquered palace-carriage to the court of the King of Tokoyo, wed to the August Princess, and set to govern the island of Raishū for...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.
Open the matryoshka, and the stories nest one inside another: fables, fairy tales, and poems from old Russia, in fresh English verse translations, each read over a gentle instrumental bed.
The library opens with Ivan Krylov, Russia's beloved fabulist — some two hundred fables of crows and foxes, wolves and cranes, each a few minutes long with a moral that still lands two centuries later. Five fables to an episode. Beyond him wait Baba Yaga in her hut and the Firebird in the tsar's garden, Pushkin's tales, Yesenin's poems, Tolstoy's folk tales, Chekhov's stories — one shelf at a time, one author at a time.
From KacheliTV, Gulfport, Florida — old stories, new meanings. Старые истории, новые смыслы.
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