Canadian Wonder Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Canadian Wonder Tales, credited to Cyrus Macmillan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Canadian Wonder Tales by Cyrus Macmillan. Read by Sean Miichael Hogan This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as "fables" though many are without obvious moral. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Canadian Wonder Tales
• Author credits: Cyrus Macmillan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 4:30:18

Catalogue topics

• folktales
• Canadian
• fables

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Foreword and Preface — 6:09
2. 02 - The Baker's Magic Wand — 10:58
3. 03 - Star-Boy and the Sun Dance — 10:59
4. 04 - Jack and His Magic Aids — 10:49
5. 05 - The Bad Indian's Ashes — 5:10
6. 06 - The Mermaid of the Magdalenes — 7:41
7. 07 - The Boy and the Dancing Fairy — 11:46
8. 08 - The Mouse and the Sun — 8:18
9. 09 - Glooskap's Country — 11:52
10. 10 - How Rabbit Lost His Tail — 8:42
11. 11 - The Partridge and His Drum — 11:51
12. 12 - How Summer Came to Canada — 11:08
13. 13 - How Turtle Came — 8:42
14. 14 - The First Mosquito — 10:17
15. 15 - The Moon and His Frog-Wife — 6:07
16. 16 - Glooskap and the Fairy — 3:07
17. 17 - The Passing of Glooskap — 16:50
18. 18 - The Indian Cinderella — 5:35
19. 19 - The Boy and His Three Helpers — 5:44
20. 20 - The Duck with the Red Feet — 5:31
21. 21 - The Northern Lights — 11:58
22. 22 - The Boy and the Robbers' Magical Booty — 11:27
23. 23 - The Coming of the Corn — 4:50
24. 24 - The Dance of Death — 5:45

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