Sandman Stories Presents

EP 161: Louisiana- Brother Bear and Brother Rabbit (Alcée Fortier 1895)


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Brother Bear just want some help with his work, so he invites brother Hyena (Bouki) and Brother Rabbit. Well, you know having Brother Rabbit around is going to make for some trouble, so Brother Rabbit makes up a whole plan to eat all of the food. When he is caught, more hijinks ensue.

And in the second story, a drunk man thinks he can communicate with the frogs.

Source: Louisiana folk-tales, in French dialect and English translation by Alcée Fortier 1895

Narrator: Dustin Steichmann

Music: Quoi Faire - Cajun Cross Tune by Brenden McLain Creative Commons

Sound Effects: sherman_frogs_11_04mar2010.WAV by aguasonic on Freesound.org

Podcast Shoutout: Radio Omniglot Radio Omniglot features a monthly podcast about language and related topics, a weekly Adventures in Etymology series, which explores the origins of words, and a weekly Omniglot News series, which summaries the latest developments on Omniglot, the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages.

Listener Shoutout: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Contact me at: @SandmanStories on Mastadon, @StoriesSandman on twitter (for now), or on Galas where you can leave me feedback and I'll reply

Photo: "Cute" by ilouque is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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