A Tale Told By the Fire

Shaun Jex

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Society & Culture

A podcast featuring folklore, fairy tales, and legends from around the world.

03/15/2021

The Mayan Story of Creation

This week we travel to Mesoamerica to tell the creation story as taught by the Maya. Text from the story comes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. To read the story and view the other resources available, visit https://maya.nmai.si.edu/
03/08/2021

The Trouble With Rose Hips

This week's episode is a Lipan Apache tale about Coyote called The Trouble With Rose Hips
03/01/2021

The Old Woman Who Kept All the Pecans

This week we read a story from the Caddo people of North Eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The Story, The Old Woman Who Kept All the Pecans, tells the story of how pecan trees became available to all.
02/22/2021

The Land-Otter Son

This week our story takes us back to South East Alaska for another Tlingit legend. We tell the story of The Land-Otter Son.
02/15/2021

Snowflake

This week we read "Snowflake" from Andrew Lang's Pink Fairy book.
02/08/2021

The Elephant and the Bees

This week's episode takes us to Thailand for the story The Elephant and the Bees. The story is retold from the book Thai Tales: Folktales of Thailand by Supaporn Vathanaprida, edited by Margaret Read MacDonald (Libraries Unlimited, 1994).
02/03/2021

Momotaro Born of a Peach

This week we travel to Japan for the legend of Momotaro, the boy born of a peach.
01/25/2021

The King of America

This week we begin season 2 of A Tale Told by the Fire, and we start with "The King of America" a story about George Washington as re-told by Pete Seeger.

A podcast featuring folklore, fairy tales, and legends from around the world.

Creator

Shaun Jex
Years Active

2020 - 2021
Episodes

23
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Shaun Jex
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A Tale Told By the Fire