Global Storytime Podcast
Folktales from around the world.
Displaying all 8 Episode of Global Storytime Podcast with the tag “folktale”.
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21 b. Let's Learn About the Inuit and Koyukon!
July 11th, 2021 | 18 mins 28 secs
aboriginal, canada, canadian, children's stories, fables, family stories, first nations, folktale, indigenous, loon, raven, read aloud
Let's Learn About the Inuit and Koyukon native peoples from Canada.
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21.a A Blind Boy and a Loon AND How Raven Brought Back the Sun
July 4th, 2021 | 20 mins 6 secs
aboriginal, canada, canadian, children's stories, fables, family stories, first nations, folktale, indigenous, loon, raven, read aloud
This week I am bringing you 2 stories from First Nations tribes in Canada.
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16.a A Costume for Rangi
April 25th, 2021 | 14 mins 26 secs
creationist story, earth story, family friendly read aloud, folktale, kids stories, legend, milky way, new zealand
This week I'm bringing you a story from the Maori in New Zealand!
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7. It Could Always be Worse
December 20th, 2020 | 15 mins 11 secs
folktale, jewish, yiddish
This week I'm bringing you a Yiddish folktale.
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5. Basket Lady Swing & Beaver and Echo
November 22nd, 2020 | 33 mins 53 secs
animal stories, folktale, indigenous, nativeamericans
This week I bring you 2 stories from the Tulalip Tribes from Washington state.
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4. Forty Fortunes
November 8th, 2020 | 25 mins 6 secs
folktale, fortune telling, iran, persia
This week I'm sharing a story from Iran.
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2. Anansi and the Impossible Quest
October 11th, 2020 | 21 mins 21 secs
anani, folktale, ghana, west africa
This episode's story comes from Ghana!
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1. Grandma and the Great Gourd
September 27th, 2020 | 20 mins 32 secs
bengal, folktale, india
This week I bring you a story from the Bengal region in India. Grandma and the Great Gourd is a folktale about a courageous grandma and how she makes it through a dangerous forest with the help of her clever daughter. The retelling of this timeless tale is based on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale.