Twenty more anecdotes of the Hodja. A travelling Molla pays for his answers in pomegranates, and learns what the answers are worth when the fruit runs out; the cow that nobody at market would buy is sold in a breath once she is praised as six months gone with calf — and the Hodja, who has learned his trick, praises his own daughter to the matchmaking women in the very same words; a caftan hanging in the night garden is shot through for a robber, and its owner thanks God he was not inside it; the cat is blamed for every liver, so the axe gets locked away from her; Friday is announced by a turban on a cupboard; a husband goes into exile in his own cellar; and a clever son remembers the day his father was born.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
From Der Hodscha Nasreddin by Albert Wesselski (1911), public domain; told in a fresh in-house rendering.
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Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:05 The Father of My Son
0:21 No Pomegranates, No Answers
1:43 A Stable Full of Cattle
2:10 Six Months Pregnant
4:24 Why Thank You?
4:42 All for a Blanket
5:20 Thank God I Was Not Inside
5:56 Let Him Find Something
6:12 Is That Enough?
6:36 A Verse at Midnight
7:05 How Shall I Be Lamented?
7:35 The Cat and the Axe
8:18 He Needs It More
8:45 Friday Will Wait
9:30 Ask Me First
10:09 Kids Grow into Goats
10:36 Into Exile
11:03 Nuts for the Child
11:35 Perhaps Two Doors
12:16 I Remember Your Birth
