Folk Tales of Chile — Part 2: The Little Orphan Lamb · The Enchanted Little Parrot · The Devil and the Peasant | KacheliTV World Classics
Part two of Folk Tales of Chile. Three more Chilean folk tales collected from oral tradition by Ramón A. Laval and published in his Cuentos populares en Chile (Santiago, 1923), heard here in a fresh in-house English translation made from the Spanish: The Little Orphan Lamb, The Enchanted Little Parrot, and The Devil and the Peasant.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
The Little Orphan Lamb — a brother and sister flee their stepmother; the girl drinks from a stream whose waters turn her into a little lamb, and a little wand of virtue lets her become a woman for three hours at a time, until a prince asks to marry her.
The Enchanted Little Parrot — Manuel gives up an almud of silver for the King's talking parrot; when she flies home to the castle of Flordelis, he follows with a wishing ring, a flying feather, and a cap of invisibility to claim the princess she truly is.
The Devil and the Peasant — the Devil farms in partnership with a peasant for three years, and is outwitted three times over: by potatoes, by watermelons and melons, and by maize.
The tales:
0:46 The Little Orphan Lamb
17:42 The Enchanted Little Parrot
29:47 The Devil and the Peasant
Source and rights: from Cuentos populares en Chile (recogidos de la tradición oral) by Ramón A. Laval (1862–1929), Revista de Folklore Chileno, Tomo IX, Santiago: Imprenta Cervantes, 1923 — public domain; lawful copy Project Gutenberg #63424. Tales Nos. 9, 26 and 27 of Parte I, in book order, in a fresh in-house English translation from the Spanish; no published translation was used. Further tales of Parte I are not read in this episode, each excluded by name after a full reading: El Soldadillo · Delgadina y el Culebrón · El Gallito (heard in Spain, not Chilean tradition) · La Tortilla o el Canarito Encantado · El Cuerpo sin Alma · Las siete Ciegas · Los tres Consejos · El Loro Adivino · Hermosura del Mundo · El Árbol de las tres Manzanas de Oro · Los Hijos del Pescador · El Compadrito León · El Miñaco · Chilindrín y Chilindrón · Juan Valiente · Gallarín y el Gigante · El cuento de los tres difuntos. The book's Parte II belief-notes stand on the bench as a class, with El Chumaco, El Cabro viejo and El Zapatero que se volvía gallo excluded by name. No claim of completeness for the book is made.
Narrated by Mira.
Music: Bandoneón Street Romance — opening and closing theme, and heard briefly between the stories; no music under the narration.
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