Six legends from the Basque country, collected chiefly in the Labourd and published by the Reverend Wentworth Webster in Basque Legends (1879) — foxes, fairies, and one very frightened devil, told as the Basque storytellers told them.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Acheria the fox trades three truths for a fish and lives to boast about it; an ass talks a wolf out of his dinner with pure logic; a little dog decodes a fairy's backwards speech; an idle girl's spinning is done by three very strange visitors; a labourer in honey and feathers asks the Devil his age; and in the wood, a maiden keeps her word to a serpent.
Stories in this episode:
0:35 Introduction
1:29 Acheria, the Fox
6:22 The Ass and the Wolf
8:13 The Servant at the Fairy's
11:42 The Pretty but Idle Girl
14:26 The Devil's Age
16:42 The Serpent in the Wood
Source: Basque Legends, collected by Wentworth Webster (Griffith and Farran, 1879, second edition) — public domain; read from the Project Gutenberg edition. Narrated by Violetta.
Music: "The River's Dying Vision" (instrumental) — opening and closing theme, with a short excerpt between stories.
