Season 96 · Episode 2 — folk tales of Tunisia from the collections of Dr Hans Stumme (1864–1936), in fresh translations made for KacheliTV World Classics.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
THE BOOKS BEHIND THIS EPISODE
• "Tunisische Märchen und Gedichte" (Tunisian Tales and Poems), by Hans Stumme — published at Leipzig in 1893. Tales in the Arabic dialect of the city of Tunis, collected and published by Stumme with his own translation.
• "Märchen der Berbern von Tamazratt in Südtunisien" (Tales of the Berbers of Tamazratt in Southern Tunisia), by Hans Stumme — published at Leipzig in 1900. Recorded by Stumme in the city of Tunis in March 1897 from two men of Tamazratt — the porters and folk singers Muhammed ibn Abdelqader Ennasri and Mhammed El Alqmi.
Both books are public domain (published before 1930; the author died in 1936), and the English texts in this episode are fresh translations made for this reading.
IN THIS EPISODE
The Bad Habit — 2:00 — A Bedouin's wife eats her guest's two chickens piece by piece as she cooks them, and then frightens the guest out of the tent with a tale about her husband's dreadful habit. From the tales of the city of Tunis.
The Cock, the Wolf and the Greyhound — 3:51 — Left behind in an empty settlement, a cock calls the evening prayer from his tree, and the wolf who comes to join the prayer is sent to fetch the prayer-leader from the straw hut. From the tales of the Berbers of Tamazratt.
The Two Old People — 5:40 — A miser fills a great clay pot with gold and will not spend a coin of it; after his death, his widow's second husband finds the pot under a marble slab, and the two old men's two sayings meet at last. From the tales of the Berbers of Tamazratt.
Narration: Bruno. Music: the instrumental theme "Tampa Across the Water 2" is heard at the opening and at the close, and in a short excerpt between the stories; there is no music under the narration.
