Six tales from the far north-east of Siberia, told on the Kolyma and the Molonda River in 1895 and written down by Waldemar Bogoras. A hunter, frozen senseless, is carried home by three storks; he shoots the youngest — his wife — through the heart, and her sisters make her whole by morning, while the storks tell him his old wife, a monster, was thrown into the sea and became a sea-worm. A chieftain's son, born among the reindeer, dies when a falling tree strikes him. Stingy reindeer-owners refuse a poor man's plea, and go ten days without a meal in the middle of their own plenty. An arctic fox steals fish through the winter ice and outfaces a bear. Wolves and Men sets the wolves' view of the men who share their hunting ground. And Bear, Wolverene, and Wolf Story, a pourquoi tale, tells why each of the three fears one animal only — Man.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
01:20 Tale about Three Storks
12:37 Reindeer-Born
16:30 A Tale about Stingy Reindeer-Owners
22:29 Story of an Arctic Fox
27:43 Wolves and Men
29:19 Bear, Wolverene, and Wolf Story
Source: Waldemar Bogoras, Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (1918), recorded for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition — public domain. Narrators as printed: N.094 and N.095, Innocent Karyakin, Tundra Yukaghir, Kolyma, winter 1895; N.099, Ivashkan, Lamut, Molonda River, summer 1895; N.100, N.101, and N.102, Ulashkan, Lamut, Molonda River, summer 1895. Fresh in-house English rendering, heard exactly as screened: in Reindeer-Born the book's eggshell simile for the death is not heard — the death stands in one plain clause — and in the Stingy Reindeer-Owners the starving men are heard only to go hungry. Between the first tale and the second you will hear this episode's short spoken break, placed there by design.
Left out of this part, in book order and by name: N.096 Chaun Story, N.097 A Tale of the Chukchee Invasion, and N.098 Story about Cannibals — excluded whole under this shelf's standing exclusions and entered in its register; their pages were not opened for this build. N.034 and N.132 stand held by name for the owner's ruling; they are not stock and form no part of this episode. This part tells Yukaghir and Lamut tales only, and the shelf claims no completeness that its exclusions contradict.
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