Afanasyev — Baba Yaga and Zamoryshek · The Bear · The Bear and the Rooster · The Bear, the Dog and the Cat
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Four animal and wonder tales from the great Russian collection — a christening-gift child outwits Baba Yaga herself, and the bear stalks through three tellings: robbed of his hay, outfaced by a rooster, and undone by a dog, a cat and his own thirst.
In this episode:
00:00 — Opening theme and introduction
00:35 — Baba Yaga and Zamoryshek
08:44 — The Bear (told in both of its tellings)
12:19 — The Bear and the Rooster
14:39 — The Bear, the Dog and the Cat
One neighbouring tale in the collection was screened for this episode and left out under the series' content standard: «Балдак Борисьевич» (Baldak Borisyevich), whose closing scene is an enacted killing. It is named here plainly; nothing in this episode is shortened to hide it.
From «Народные русские сказки» (Folk Russian Tales) collected by Alexander Afanasyev — «Баба-яга и Заморышек» (No. 105), «Медведь» (Nos. 57–58), «Медведь и петух» (No. 65) and «Медведь, собака и кошка» (No. 59), Nauka academic edition, 1984–85 — in a fresh in-house English translation made for this series. No published translation was used.
Narrated by Orson.
Opening and closing theme: "Crimson Peak".
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