Four Tatar folk tales from the fourth part of Vasily Radlov's Proben, published at St. Petersburg in 1872 — the opening episode of a new shelf. Radlov collected these tales from the Siberian Tatars — the Baraba Tatars and the Tatars of the Tara, Tobolsk and Tyumen districts — and printed his own German translation beside the Tatar texts; the English here is freshly rendered in-house from his German.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
A great bird carries off a ruler's storehouses of gold and silver, and the youngest son follows it down the road of no return — where his brothers drive the grey wolf away and are left eating their shoes, the youngest shares his dinner with it, and the wolf's kindness carries him through the bird, the seven horses, the golden zither and the prince's daughter, until every prince gives his prize away for nothing. A hunter builds his whole fortune on a hare he has not shot yet. Two ears of wheat tell the truth about who will eat them. And three brothers — a carpenter, a shoemaker, and the youngest, who spent his whole inheritance on a mirror that outshines the sun — feed and clothe a prison full of starving men, and set them free.
Stories in this episode:
0:35 Introduction
1:59 The Prince's Son Who Went Seeking the Bird
17:53 The Hare
19:11 The Two Ears of Wheat
21:07 The Three Sons
Source: Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme, Part IV (St. Petersburg, 1872) by Vasily Radlov — public domain; fresh in-house English rendering from Radlov's German translation. Narrated by Mira.
Music: "Blazing Fire" (instrumental) — opening and closing theme, with a short excerpt between stories.
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