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Comeuppance
Celebrating oral storytelling and all things narrative: wisdom and wonder tales, folktales and legends, myth and mayhem, gossip and news, riddles and lies. Toronto storyteller chris cavanagh brings you tales and storytellers from near and far.
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Episode 15: Ti-flor and the Devil
February 14, 2008
| An Acadian folktale about a wee girl who has an encounter with a magic fiddler
16:52 minutes (15.45 MB)
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Episode 14: Duncan MacKinnon and the Seal
February 3, 2008
| A Scottish folktale learned from Duncan Williamson
13:18 minutes (12.18 MB)
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Episode 13: Parenting Advice?
January 28, 2008
| Two stories about children that just might help with parenting
6:10 minutes (5.65 MB)
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Episode 10: Heaven & Hell
May 5, 2007
| A fellow dies and wants to see what hell looks like first.
3:33 minutes (3.25 MB)
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Episode 12: The Origin of Writing
May 9, 2007
| Plato tells us about how writing was invented.
2:21 minutes (2.15 MB)
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Episode 11: They Peeked and a Solomon Legend
May 7, 2007
| A story about children and a Solomon tale.
5:37 minutes (5.15 MB)
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Episode 9: Tales that Teach (?)
April 27, 2007
| Three tales about teaching
8:20 minutes (7.64 MB)
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Episode 8: The Wise Little Girl
April 24, 2007
| A russian folk tale and bedtime story
11:11 minutes (10.24 MB)
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Episode 7: For Earth Day
April 22, 2007
| A few tales about land and resistance
9:49 minutes (8.99 MB)
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Episode 6 - The Old Woman and the Pot
June 13, 2006
| An old woman goes to the market to take her mind off of herself.
4:29 minutes (4.11 MB)
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