Two tales of judgement too quickly made. In the first, a young prince who saves his father's life in the night is accused by his stepmother before morning — and each of the king's three sons answers with the same words: strike, but hear me first. In the second, a ghost steals a poor Brahman's very face and lives in his house as its master, until the case comes before a court no one expected: a cowherd boy playing at kings, with a small bottle for his judgement seat.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
0:04 Strike but Hear
18:44 The Ghost-Brahman
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day (1883), public domain; told in a modern in-house rendering.
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