Sixteen more beast fables from Vuk Vrčević's Narodne basne (Folk Fables), printed at Dubrovnik in 1892 — read in a fresh English translation made for KacheliTV. A sick wolf confesses his life to his mother; a piglet and a cat quarrel over a trough; a woodpecker and an ant repay each other's kindness; and an ox, trapped by his own rope, is set free by the smallest creature in the stable. Fables of gratitude, pride, counsel and contentment, told as the people of the Montenegrin lands told them.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
In this part:
1:37 — The Sick Wolf and His Mother
3:30 — The Piglet and the Cat
4:40 — The Woodpeckers and the Ants
6:49 — The Fox and Her Cubs
8:29 — The Wolf, the Fox and the Raven
10:40 — The Frogs and Their Elder
12:31 — The Lion and the Fox
14:07 — The Horse and the Donkey
16:03 — The Jackdaw in Borrowed Feathers
18:00 — The Rose and the Wild Apple Tree
19:54 — The Giant Poplar and the Slender Reed
21:39 — The Ox and the Mouse
24:14 — The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
26:24 — The Lion and the Hare
28:17 — The Fox and Her Grown Cubs
29:49 — The Bees and the Bear
Source: Vuk Vrčević (1811–1882), Narodne basne (Dubrovnik, 1892) — public domain; fresh in-house English translation. Fables whose action turns on a killing shown on the page were set aside under this shelf's standing rule and stand named, with their reasons, in the shelf register; what the animals only speak of is told as written.
Music: the instrumental theme "Calm After the Current" is heard at the opening and the close, and briefly between the fables. There is no music under the reading.
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