Folklorica

It's my chick in a box!
This week, we bring you the final episode of season 2. As if that really means anything.
The Girl in the Chest - The Story of the Third Sister Who was Brave and Good
from The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore published 1921
Love u.
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Bonjour. Ready for a French folktale??
Aujourd'hui on lit "Barbe Bleue" de Histoires ou contes du temps passé écrit par Charles Perrault et publié en 1697.
Except that we're actually reading the version from Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book published 1889. We've heard it stays very true to the original Perrault version and is in English, which is better for us. Enjoy!
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A story from the Azqueltán, Jalisco in Mexico!
Read it as it was published in the The Journal of American Folklore in 1912 here: The Bird of the Sweet Song
The book Maggie is reading is called How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny O'Dell. Buy it from your local bookstore.
Read more about the fight for the rights of the indigenous people of Azqueltán.
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Here we have a very special holiday episode of Folkorica! Clayton reads "Saint Nicholas and The Children" by Cyrus MacMillan from his book Canadian Fairy Tales published in 1922.
Read more about St. Nick's sweaty bones.
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Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!
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A Maori tale about Bishop George Selwyn and a very cool Tohunga.

Read the full text of the story here


Listen to that weird folk song that Clayton found

Gaze in wonder at the beautiful Mokoia Island


Watch our friend's friend, Taika Waititi's TEDx Talk


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From Italy! Lizard fairies and ungrateful goats.
Goat-Face from Tale of Tales/Entertainment for Little Ones, aka Stories from Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile  in 1634 (1st Volume) and 1636  (2nd Volume).
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Worms. Demons. Suicidal birds. It's a Jewish folktale that inspired a lot of personal stories so naturally we ramble!
King Solomon and the Worm from A Treasury of Jewish Folklore, edited by Nathan Ausubel (1948). Originally from Jewish Fairy Tales, selected and translated by Gerald Friedlander (1917).
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A story from Japan. Paper cranes. Killer sharks. And our very first guest, Maddy Cross.
This story is from The Japanese Fairy Book  by Yei Theodora Ozaki, published in 1903.
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It's the story of a good little dude.
Read the full text of The Story of Benito from Philippine Folk Tales collected by Mabel Cook Cole and published in 1916.
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Maybe it's not always a bad idea to climb into a sack in Iceland. A tale with twists and turns and a good old grey man from Icelandic Legends by Jon Arnason.
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