Voice of the Fire Sebastian Buchner

A Tibetan folk tale about the stupidity of humans...

This is a Romanian Jewish Tale taken from a German collection from 1902. There are some familiar motifs in it, but it has a quite peculiar flavour.

The Sorceress's Head is a fast moving and irreverent version of the tale of Perseus and Medusa. It was taken from Italian Folktales, collected by Italo Calvino.

Momo Kapor was a Serbian artist and writer, a satirist in turns gentle and piercing - I picked up his book "A Guide to the Serbian Mentality" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5289153-a-guide-to-the-serbian-mentality) last year in Belgrade, so let me take you on a quick tour of the Myths of Belgrade Cuisine, courtesy of Mister Kapor.

I don't know if it's easier to propagate stereotypes today (if you study history you'll realize that stereotypes aren't hard to propagate or spread, even with minimal media - a voice is generally enough) but this story was told to me sometime during travels in Morocco and I sometimes think of it when the term "immigrant" is tossed around as if it always meant the same and as if everyone who leaves a place for another place means to stay there forever. A part of me is nomadic, so this perspective comes more easily.

Coyote, one of the favourite tricksters here at Voice of the Fire, is at it again. Now he takes a page from the book of Prometheus and wants to bring divine gifts to...well, mostly himself.

This version is based on a legend first reported in 1939.