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    The Ax of Gold: A Greek Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 7min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. An old farmer was out in the woods chopping wood for his family when his ax slipped from his hands and went flying into the river. The farmer was so upset, he cried out to the river. The river spirit heard him and up out of the river rose a silver ax. "Is this your ax?" asked the River Spirit. The framer would have loved the ax, but he was an honest man and he said, "No." The silver ax went back into the water. Then out of the waters came a gold ax. "Is this your ax?" asked the River Spirit. Again the old man answered, "No." The gold ax went back down into the water. Now the man's old ax came up out of the water. "Is this your ax?" "Yes!" exclaimed the man. "That's it!" and the ax moved across the water into the man's outstretched hands. He thanked the River Spirit and began to leave. The Spirit asked him to stop and told him that for his honesty, he could have the ax of silver and the ax of gold. The man wept with joy. When he told some people in town about what had happened, one of his neighbors decided that he would do the same thing and get rich. He grabbed his ax and threw it into the river and pretended to cry. The river spirit brought up an ax of gold and the man claimed it as his own. When he reached out for the gold ax, the ax moved back out over the water and the man fell in and floated away. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017044/bk_adbl_017044_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Boy and the Magpie - Salting Its Tail: A Swedish Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 16min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. A boy was always wishing for things he didn't have. An old magician told the boy if he put salt on a magpie's tail, he could have any wish he made. The boy went out with salt into the woods. All the magpies flew away. One finally spoke with him and told him if he brought her a nice clasp knife, she would let him put salt on her tail. On his way out of the forest, he collected wild berries and in the village sold them. He went and collected more berries and kept on until he had enough until he could buy a knife. When he showed it to the magpie, she said it wasn't nice enough, and now she wanted a horse and sleigh. He used the knife and began carving little figures. He bought a horse and sleigh. But she wanted a white horse, not a black one, and now she wanted a castle and chests filled with gold. He used the sleigh to offer rides. He bought more sleighs and horses. Finally he had enough for the castle. He built the castle and worked on until he had the chests of money. He invited the magpie to come. She allowed him to put salt on her tail. He began thinking of what to wish for. The magpie waited. She said, "You took too long" and began to fly away. The boy grabbed a small statue to throw at the Magpie when she landed on a cross beam and pointed out that the boy had all that he ever wished for, and he had done it all himself. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017049/bk_adbl_017049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Clever Manka and the Judge: An Eastern European Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 16min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Manka was a clever girl. Her father was a shepherd and did a job for a neighbor. The neighbor had promised him a calf for pay, but when the job was done the wealthy farmer refused to give him the young cow. They wound up in court. The young judge somehow got confused by all the testimony and rather than make a judgment gave them 3 riddles and the judge would decide in favor of the one with the best answers. The riddles: What is the fastest? What is the sweetest? What is the richest thing in the world? The wealthy farmer went home and his wife suggested: 1. Their horse. 2. Their honey. 3. Their box of gold. Manka suggested to her father 1. Thought is the fastest. 2 Sleep is the sweetest. 3. The earth is the richest. Manka's father won the case. When the judge heard that they were Manka's ideas, he sent her another challenge. He gave the shepherd 10 eggs and told him to give them to his daughter and have her return with chicks the next day. The shepherd accepted the eggs but did not know what his daughter would do with them in one night. When she heard Manka gave her father a handful of millet and told him to take the millet to the judge and tell him that if he could sow and harvest the millet overnight, she would bring the chicks to eat it. The judge was delighted and offered another challenge. Have Manka come to court the next day, but not during the day or night and that she should come neither walking or riding and neither dressed nor undressed. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018012/bk_adbl_018012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Munanchar and Menanchar: An Irish Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 9min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Munanchar and Menanchar are two friends who are out picking raspberries. As Munanchar fills his bucket, Menanchar eats them. Munanchar discovers what is happening and tells Menanchar that he is going to go get a stick and hit Menancnhar on the head! So Munanchar sets out and finds a tree that has a branch that will be just the right stick. But the tree tells him he needs an ax. He goes to the ax, and the ax tells him he needs a stone to sharpen the ax. The stone says he needs water to wet the stone. The water says he needs to get a deer to jump into it. The deer says he needs to get a dog to chase her. The dog says it needs some butter in its teeth. The churns says it needs milk. The cow says it needs tall grass. The grass says it needs water. The water says he needs something to hold it. Munanchar grabs a sieve, but the water runs right through it. Just then a crow flies by and caws. The sound of the crow reminds Munanchar of caulk. He uses some mud as caulk, gets some water in the sieve, and waters the grass, feeds the grass to the cow, brings milk to the churn that churns out some butter for the dog, who chases the deer, who jumps into the water that wets the stone and sharpens the ax. He takes the ax and cuts a branch, breaks off the little branches to make a stick, and runs back. There's no one there. Menanchar has gone home. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018296/bk_adbl_018296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rumpelstiltskin: A German Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 33min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. A poor miller told the king that his daughter could spin straw to gold. The king was delighted and ordered the daughter to come to the palace. He showed her a room full of straw and told her she must spin it into gold by the morning or die. She did not know what to do. She cried. A little man appeared who, after receiving a necklace, spun the straw into gold. The king put her in a larger room full of straw and told her the same thing. This time the girl gave the little man a ring. The king had a larger room filled with straw and told her that this time if she was successful, they would be married. She had nothing to offer the little man this time and finally agreed that she would give him her firstborn. He went to work, and the girl married the king. When her baby was born, the little man came back. She did not want to give up the baby. He told her if she could guess his name the baby would stay with her. He would come three evenings in a row, and if by the third evening she had not guessed, the baby would be hers. The first two nights she guessed names with no luck, but just before the third night one of her courtiers reported hearing a little man in the forest singing and dancing around a fire. She asked what he was singing and the courier reported that he was singing that his name was Rumpelstiltskin. When the little man came, she told him his name and kept her baby. He flew out the window. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018008/bk_adbl_018008_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nighttime Comes to the Rainforest: A South American Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 10min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Long ago there was only sun in the rainforest. It was beautiful but too bright. People had a hard time sleeping. A farmer was married to the River Snake King's daughter, and she told her husband about something called "Night" that was deep in the river. It would let people rest. They had too much farm work to do, so they sent three friends in a canoe down the river to ask the River Snake King for Night. They arrived, and the River Snake King dove deep into the water, returned with a tacuma nut between his jaws, and spit it into the boat. He told them Night was in the nut, and they could take it back and his daughter, who understood magic and would know what to do with the nut and Night. The three friends looked at the plug in the hole in the nut, covered with wax, and swore they would not open the nut but rather bring it to his daughter. They began paddling upstream. Noises came from the nut, and it moved in the boat. Finally they could not stand it anymore and opened the nut. Night came rushing out and with it bats and mosquitoes and stars. Night swept across the sky. The Snake King's daughter saw the sky and understood what had happened. Her husband fell asleep. The nocturnal creatures began to appear, transforming from bushes, logs, and rocks. She pulled out a strand of hair, tied it to the edge of Night, and pulled part of the nighttime into another nut. She hid the nut deep in the forest so no one would ever find it again. Now there was day and night in the rainforest. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017039/bk_adbl_017039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sleeping Beauty: A French Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 19min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. A princess was born to the king and queen. They sent out invitations to the christening and included a group of fairies. However, one fairy was not invited. The other fairies all came and bestowed wonderful wishes on the young princess. Just before the lilac fairy gave her blessing and gift, the uninvited fairy arrived, and she was angry. She cursed the king and queen and announced that at the age of 15 (or 16), the princess would prick her finger on a spindle and die. She left with a clap of thunder. The lilac fairy could not totally undo the bad spell, but she could make it less harsh, so she declared that the princess would not die but would fall into a hundred-year sleep along with everyone in the palace. The king and queen ordered that all spindles in the kingdom be destroyed. Years went by, and on the designated birthday the princess wandered into an old part of the palace she had never explored. And there, in the top of a tower, she met an old woman spinning. The princess had never seen a spindle and reached out to touch the spinning wheel. Her finger was pricked, and she fell asleep, and everyone in the palace did as well. A hedge of roses grew up around the palace. Many people tried to cut their way through but had no luck. After 100 years a prince came - one of pure heart. The hedge opened for him, he kissed the sleeping beauty, and she awoke. They married and lived happily ever after. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018010/bk_adbl_018010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Two Stories of Mouse Deer and Crocodile: An Indonesian Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 9min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Mouse Deer was down by the river one day when Crocodile swam up and chomped on little Mouse Deer's leg. Mouse Deer could not pull his leg from the clamped jaws of the crocodile. Mouse Deer did some quick thinking and began talking about how lucky he was that the crocodile had accidentally chomped on a stick instead of Mouse Deer's leg. Mouse Deer picked up a stick, which he extended from his body. Without thinking about it, Crocodile let go of Mouse Deer and chomped on the stick. Mouse Deer laughed and ran away. Another time Mouse Deer ran into Crocodile when Mouse Deer was crossing a dry riverbed. On the way across, he got tired and decided to climb onto a rock to take a nap. While he was sleeping, there was a big rainstorm up in the mountains. The rain filled the dry riverbed, and when Mouse Deer woke up he was surrounded by water. He looked around and saw Crocodile heading up the river, with many other crocodiles following. Crocodile smiled. He knew Mouse Deer could not swim. Mouse Deer thought quickly and asked Crocodile if he was going to eat Mouse Deer by himself or share him. Crocodile said he would share. How would he know who had a bite? Mouse Deer suggested that all the crocodiles line up side by side. Then he could step on them and announce what body part each would get to eat. Crocodile agreed. They lined up. Mouse Deer called out body parts as he quickly scampered across the crocodile bridge to safety. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017058/bk_adbl_017058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mischievous Crow: An Australian Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 13min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. Crow was always causing trouble wherever he went, doing tricks and being mean. One of his tricks was to call a stranger who he wanted something from "Brother-in-law" so that they would treat him like family and give him food. He would always make up how some great ancestor had married into the other animal's clan. While traveling he did this with Eagle-Hawk. after eating, he left. He faked a limp so they would feel sorry for him. He moved on and came quickly like the wind to Pelican's. He used the "Brother-in-law trick on Pelican and said he had come quickly because he was running from Emu who threw a boomerang and hurt his leg. Pelican invited Crow to stay in his wurley. They treated Crow as special guest bringing him wonderful food. He slept and when he awoke, it was almost noon. He never slept that late and decided that the pelican must have cast a spell. They had done nothing at all. He followed their tracks to the lagoon watching the pelicans in the water, thinking about what he might do to pay them back for making him sleep late. He heard some babies crying and could not figure out where it was coming from. Finally he saw that there were two baby pelicans in the fork of the tree above him. They were left there by two sisters who were in the lagoon and the mothers had set up a net around the tree so if a baby slipped it would still be safe and land in the net. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017994/bk_adbl_017994_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Rich and Poor Girls: A South American Folktale, Hörbuch, Digital, 14min
    Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing. In a small village, a mother and her daughter were just getting by. They had very little. One day the girl announced that she was going to go and find some work. There was no work in the village and so she set out on her own. She began to cross a field and there were 2 bulls fighting. The fighting made the girl sad and she sang to the bulls to stop their fighting and they did! She moved on. She came to a raging river. She wondered how she would cross it and so she sang to the river to calm down and it did. She crossed the river and traveled until she came to an old house. It was big and she knocked on the door. An old woman answered and when the girl asked for work the old woman showed her in and asked if she would wash the dishes. The girl replied, "Of course!" The old woman led her into the kitchen. Every surface was stacked high with dirty dishes, but the girl just smiled and went to work. When she finished, the old woman asked the girl to scratch her back. The girl began and felt something tear at her finger. She pulled her hand away and saw her fingers were bleeding. She looked at the old woman's back and saw that there ere pieces of glass in her skin. The girl kept on. The old woman told the girl she had done enough and she wanted to pay her. She told the girl to go down the hall and on the left there was a room filled with chests. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Gordh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017037/bk_adbl_017037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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