The Folktale Podcast: Recent Episodes
Annie S. Banner
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Two little fables, the first from Norway, the second from Wales.
References:
"East of the Sun and West of the Moon." by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, published by George H Doran Company, New York. Date unknown.
"Welsh Fairytales" edited by P.H Emerson, published by D. Nutt, London, 1894.
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A beautiful, yet gruesome original I discovered from reading The Pentamerone. Sun, Moon, and Talia, "Sole, Luna, e Talia", is an Italian fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as The Sleeping Beauty, as did the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as Little Briar Rose.
References:
Stories from The Pentamerone, collected by Italian poet Giambattista Basile.
"The Pentamerone", translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor.
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"Sir Gammer Vans" is a novelty English Folktale about a world gone topsy-turvy.
References:
"More English Fairytales" edited by Joseph Jacobs, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, London. Date unknown.
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"Godfather Death" is a Germanic fairy tale collected by the Brother's Grimm and first published in 1812.
(phone audio.)
References:
First edition of "Kinder- und Hausmarchen", Brothers Grimm, 1812.
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"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carol about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock".
It features in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the spin-off of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The book recounts Alice's discoveries inside the back-to-front universe of Looking-Glass Land.
In an early scene wherein she first experiences the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in an apparently muddled language. Understanding that she is going through an upset world, she perceives that the verses on the pages are written in reflect composing. She holds a mirror to one of the sonnets and peruses the reflected section of "Jabberwocky". She finds the gibberish stanza as confusing as the odd land she has gone into, later uncovered as a dreamscape.
"Jabberwocky" is viewed as one of the best drivel sonnets written in English. Its energetic, offbeat language has given English rubbish words and neologisms, for example, "galumphing" and "laugh".
References:
"Through the Looking-Glass" (1871) by Lewis Carroll
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"The tale of the snow and steeple" is a short, funny, European folktale, also from The Petamerone, about one man's journey to Russia.
References:
Stories from The Pentamerone, collected by Italian poet Giambattista Basile.
"The Pentamerone", translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor.
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Welcome to The Folktale Podcast!
I'm your host Annie. I will be telling you fairytales, folktales, folklore, urban tales, myths, and legends from throughout time and around the world!