Six 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 Tsimihety, Bara, Betsimisaraka, Tanala and Betsileo storytellers.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
A cow and a sow hold a beauty contest in a village street. A kinaoly dances his way out of danger. Two birds squeeze each other's heads into new shapes. A hen scatters grain in the dark for a friend who cannot feed by day. A plain youngest son wins the bride his handsome brothers could not — and a seed planted by a king's youngest daughter grows into a tree that bears silver, coral and pearls instead of fruit.
Stories in this episode:
0:35 Introduction
1:34 The Cow and the Sow
3:11 The Rat and the Kinaoly
6:01 Ratakatra and Ratsintsina
7:41 The Hen and the Rat
9:03 Better to Die than to Be Ashamed
13:18 The King Who Wanted a Child
Source: Contes de Madagascar, collected by Charles Renel (Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1910) — public domain; translated from the French for KacheliTV. Narrated by Benedetto.
Music: "Pastoral Awe" (instrumental) — opening and closing theme, with a short excerpt between stories.
Madagascar tales, Malagasy folklore, Charles Renel, the cow and the sow, the king who wanted a child, African folk tales, bedtime stories, KacheliTV
