Serbian Folk Tales — Part 2: Who Asks Little, Gets Much · The Dream of the King's Son | Serbian Folk-lore (1874), Mijatovich from Karadžić | KacheliTV World Classics
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Serbia's folk tales, read aloud — Part Two of the World Classics shelf that opened with The Wise Girl and The Three Suitors. These are tales from Serbian Folk-lore, the book in which Madame Elodie L. Mijatovich selected and translated into English the folk tales gathered by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, the father of Serbian folk-literature scholarship. The book was first published at London in 1874; this reading follows its second edition, of 1899, and the tales stand in the order she printed them.
Stories in this episode:
00:35 Introduction — Part Two of the shelf: Mijatovich's Serbian Folk-lore, Karadžić's collection behind it, and how this shelf chooses what it builds.
02:06 Who Asks Little, Gets Much — three brothers share a single pear-tree. An angel in beggar's form tests each of them, then grants each the life he wishes for: a river of wine, a field of sheep — or almost nothing at all.
10:22 The Dream of the King's Son — a prince is driven from his father's palace for a dream. In a cave he finds a blind old man, a golden horse, a golden greyhound and a golden hen — and on the ninth mountain, the fairies who took the old man's sight.
21:46 Closing Words
The source. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864) gathered these tales from Serbia's village story-tellers and published his Serbian folk tales at Vienna in 1853. Elodie Lawton Mijatovich (1825–1908) translated the tales into English for Serbian Folk-lore (London, 1874; second edition 1899). The copy read from is Project Gutenberg #45321. Of the book's twenty-six tales, twenty-one are excluded under this shelf's rule against depicted violence and harm, one is benched by adjudication, and the four that passed screening are built across Parts 1 and 2; this episode completes the shelf's screened set. Every excluded tale stands named, with its reason, in the shelf register — nothing is silently dropped, and no completeness is claimed that the exclusions contradict.
Music: the instrumental theme is heard at the opening and the close, and as a short separator between the two stories. No music plays beneath the narration.
Read by Bruno for KacheliTV World Classics.
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