Folk Tales of the Bahamas — Part 2 Twelve more stories from Andros Island, first printed in 1918 — Bouki and Rabby, Frog and Parakeet, Conch and Lobster, and Jack and his little dog. A pumpkin field whose big fruit cry "Pick Me, pick me." A foundling girl who finds her lost father by the song he used to sing her. Bouki frightened out of his own kitchen by a sheeted figure on the house-top. One-legged Conch racing Lobster for the king's daughter. A king's daughter whose name no one can learn, until Jack's little pet dog hears it: Nenewer. And Partridge, ending Rabby's wife's begging by playing poisoned: "All we are men, and all have wives. Let us share the fish." The episode opens and closes with its theme, Golden Monologue, heard also briefly between the stories. The tales are told by Bruno. Chapters: 0:54 Pick Me, Pick Me! 5:52 Father Found 8:18 On the House-Top 9:34 The Reaping-Trial 11:37 The Running-Trial 13:36 The Horn-Tribe Party 16:25 Mock Rain 17:32 At the Cross-Roads 18:46 Back in the Same Hole 21:26 She Sends for Her Husband 24:03 Guessing a Name 25:50 Playing Poisoned
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Some of Parsons's tales are not told in this series. The content law of this channel excludes violence, and the following numbers of Folk-Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas are excluded by name and will not be narrated (the reason for each is recorded in the episode's script notes and the shelf canon): No. 2 Mock Sunrise: The Password: The Threat Midstream · No. 3 The Password: The Tree Closes · No. 4 The Password: In the Sky · No. 5 Mock Sunrise: The Password: Under the Bed · No. 6 The Password: In the Cow's Belly · No. 7 Mock Sunrise: In the Cow's Belly; Shoes in the Road · No. 9 The Master Thief · No. 10 The Tar Baby (with its variants Nos. 11 and 12) · No. 13 Pans with Switches · No. 14 The Good Child and the Bad · No. 18 The Sleeper · No. 19 Rabby Makes Boukee His Horse · No. 22 The Witch Spouse · No. 23 The Four Brothers · No. 24 The Forbidden Room · No. 25 The Chosen Suitor · No. 26 The Flight · No. 27 Greenheart-er-Knowledge · No. 28 The Sickly Bird · No. 29 The Fish Lover · No. 30 The Sunday Bird · No. 32 The Old Witch and the Dogs · No. 33 Incriminating the Other Fellow · No. 36 The Frightened Guest · No. 37 The Husband in the Bag · No. 38 The Hidden Lover · No. 39 The False Message: Take My Place · No. 40 Fruit-Dropping · No. 41 The Mock Killing · No. 42 The Beheaded Mother · No. 43 Mock Funeral · No. 44 The Broken Bargain · No. 45 Playing Dead · No. 46 The Killing Hot Bath · No. 47 The Rainy Day · No. 49 Witchman and Thief · No. 50 B'o' Elephant Tusk · No. 51 Fasting-Trial · No. 57 The Faithful Girl · No. 58 Diving for Bananas · No. 61 The Man and His Pig · No. 62 Rock with Beard · No. 63 From Bad to Worse · No. 66 Fishing on Sunday · No. 69 Refugees in the Roof · No. 70 Dancing at the Well · the closing movement of No. 73 The Escape, telling II · No. 74 The Four Robbers · No. 75 The Lard Girl · No. 79 Kalala · No. 80 Changing Children · No. 82 The Brave Little Tailor · No. 92 Jack and the Devil · No. 93 The Sillies (the telling in which the child is shot dead; the Sillies cycle itself was told in Part 1 from its bloodless telling). No claim of completeness for the book is made. Source: Elsie Clews Parsons, Folk-Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, vol. 13, 1918) — public domain; lawful copy of record, Internet Archive, folktalesandros01parsgoog. The printed texts are Bahamian dialect transcriptions; this episode is a fresh telling in standard English that follows each tale faithfully. Parsons’s footnotes and variant apparatus are not narrated. Where one of several tellings is used, the others are named in the episode’s script notes.
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