Part Two returns to Dozon's Contes albanais: three tales in the book's own order, heard here in a fresh English translation from his French — a youngest sister whose envious sisters send her three poisoned gifts, and whom the forty thieves who shelter her bring back to life each time the gift is taken away; a widowed king who means to marry his own daughter, because the dead queen's shoes fit her feet, and who loses her to a great candlestick; and a transformation chase that ends with a fox among the hens. These three tales were held at this shelf's first screen, and were admitted by the channel's ruling; they are told here exactly as Dozon printed them, nothing softened, nothing cut, nothing added.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
In this part:
- Fatime — the youngest of three sisters, and the most beautiful; sheltered by forty thieves, she is three times sent a poisoned gift by her envious sisters — a necklace, a sieve of gold sequins, a ring — and three times restored when the gift is taken away; the third time, a king finds her in her coffin, and the ring at last falls from her finger.
- The Shoes — a dying queen charges her husband to marry only the woman her shoes fit perfectly; they fit his own daughter, who buys her escape with two great screw-closing candlesticks, hides herself in one, and is sold with them to a young prince.
- The Devils Duped — a son who has learned devilry from the devils outruns his masters through shape after shape — horse, mule, hare, apple, millet — and ends the chase as a fox among the hens they have become.
The tales:
01:59 — Fatime
09:33 — The Shoes
18:45 — The Devils Duped
Source and rights: Albanian tales from Auguste Dozon's Contes albanais, recueillis et traduits (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1881), in fresh in-house English translation from the French for this performance. The copy used is the open Internet Archive copy of the 1881 volume (contesalbanais00dozogoog); Dozon (1822–1890) collected the tales in Epirus, and the volume is in the public domain. The three tales — Fatimé (No. I), Les souliers (No. VI) and Les diables dupés (No. XVI) — were held at this shelf's first screen and admitted by name by the channel's ruling; they are narrated as printed. Screened and not read: the volume's other seventeen tales stand excluded by name in the shelf's register, and the supplement fable L'araignée et le bourdon stands benched on length; Dozon's preface, his comparative notes and the Përmet customs chapter are scholarly apparatus and are not narrated. No completeness for the volume is claimed.
Narrated by Lulu.
Music: Crimson Peak — opening and closing theme, with a short instrumental separator between stories, and no music under the narration.
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