Madagascar Tales — Part 3: The Leper Who Stole a Gourd · The Rendezvous · The Two Companions and the Thirty Piastres · Ankamantatra · The Guinea Fowl and the Caiman · The Rat and Andriandahy
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Fifteen tales from Madagascar, collected by Charles Renel and published in Paris in 1910 in his Contes de Madagascar — heard in English in a fresh translation made for this series, from Tanala, Sakalava, Betsimisaraka, Tsimihety and Antankarana storytellers.
A leper steals a gourd and cannot put it down. Two companions argue for two hours over thirty piastres they do not have. A goat turns out to be a man, an ox and a dog all at once. A snake lends his eyes and never gets them back. A guinea fowl goes to a funeral that is not one — and a rat, having cured a chief's son, chooses the strangest reward ever granted.
Stories in this episode:
0:35 Introduction
1:58 The Leper Who Stole a Gourd
4:02 The Rendezvous
6:18 The Man Without Teeth
7:28 Men and Women
8:21 The Two Companions and the Thirty Piastres
10:16 Ankamantatra
12:10 The Three Brothers and the Stone
13:50 The Three Men
15:25 Ratsibiloka and Ratsiririatra
17:10 Ratakatra and Rafihiaka
20:09 The Guinea Fowl and the Caiman
24:04 The Vintsy and the Kankafotra
26:11 The Guinea Fowl and the Hen
27:57 The Guinea Fowl and the Cock
29:38 The Rat and Andriandahy
Source: Contes de Madagascar, collected by Charles Renel (Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1910) — public domain; translated from the French for KacheliTV. Narrated by Madame de Pamplemousse.
Music: "Pastoral Awe" (instrumental) — opening and closing theme, with a short excerpt between stories.
Madagascar tales, Malagasy folklore, Charles Renel, guinea fowl and the caiman, Ankamantatra, African folk tales, bedtime stories, KacheliTV
