Basque Tales — Part 2: The Fairy-Queen Godmother · The Step-Mother and Step-Daughter · Beauty and the Beast
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Three legends from the Basque country, collected chiefly in the Labourd and published by the Reverend Wentworth Webster in Basque Legends (1879) — a fairy queen's god-daughter, a kind step-mother, and a serpent who was a king's son, told as the Basque storytellers told them.
Pretty-Rose flies from her godmother's mountain house in a flying chariot, and the little dog Rose wins back her diamond glint; a step-mother sends her step-daughter into the king's bedroom at midnight for a sash and a watch-chain, and so makes her a queen; and Fifine keeps her word to the serpent Azor, burns his skin at the stroke of midnight, and finds a king's son.
Stories in this episode:
0:35 Introduction
1:40 The Fairy-Queen Godmother
10:54 The Step-Mother and Step-Daughter
13:39 Beauty and the Beast
Source: Basque Legends, collected by Wentworth Webster (Griffith and Farran, 1879, second edition) — public domain; read from the Project Gutenberg edition. Narrated by Magnolia.
Music: "Before the Pines End" (instrumental) — opening and closing theme, with a short excerpt between stories.
Basque tales, Basque legends, Wentworth Webster, fairy tales, Beauty and the Beast, the Fairy-Queen Godmother, European folklore, bedtime stories, KacheliTV
