Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental, credited to Charles John Tibbits, 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 Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental by Charles John Tibbits. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Farnood; Annyiee Hill; MaryAnn; DrPGould; Marta A; cjedkins; Pinchcliff The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while to preserve. The conditions under which the people live are most favourable to the preservation of the ancient legends, and the cultivation of the powers of narration fits the Oriental to present his stories in a more polished style than is usual in the Western countries. The reader of these tales will observe many points of similarity between them and the popular fictions of the West—similarity of thought and incident—and nothing, perhaps, speaks more eloquently the universal brotherhood of man than this oneness of folk-fiction. At the same time, the Tales of the East are unique, lighted up as they are by a gorgeous extravagance of imagination which never fails to attract and delight. - Summary by Charles John Tibbits

Recording facts

• Recording title: Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental
• Author credits: Charles John Tibbits
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 4:51:08

Catalogue topics

• fairy tales
• Legend
• folklore
• oriental
• cultural

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Prefactory Note — 1:26
2. 01 - The Cobbler Astrologer — 27:36
3. 02 - The Legend of the Terrestrial Paradise of Sheddád, the Son of 'A'd — 12:34
4. 03 - The Tomb of Noosheerwân — 10:42
5. 04 - Ameen and the Ghool — 15:48
6. 05 - The Relations of Ssidi Kur — 9:12
7. 06 - The Adventures of the Rich Youth — 7:53
8. 07 - The Adventures of the Beggar’s Son — 13:41
9. 08 - The Adventures of Massang — 11:52
10. 09 - The Magician with the Swine’s Head — 17:25
11. 10 - The History of Sunshine and his Brother — 12:04
12. 11 - The Wonderful Man who overcame the Chan — 6:17
13. 12 - The Bird-Man — 7:29
14. 13 - The Painter and the Wood-carver — 7:08
15. 14 - The Stealing of the Heart — 8:35
16. 15 - The Man and his Wife — 6:16
17. 16 - Of the Maiden Ssuwarandari — 9:59
18. 17 - The Two Cats — 7:49
19. 18 - Legend of Dhurrumnath — 4:12
20. 19 - The Traveller’s Adventure — 9:03
21. 20 - The Seven Stages of Roostem — 14:11
22. 21 - The Man who never Laughed — 17:58
23. 22 - The Fox and the Wolf — 39:19
24. 23 - The Shepherd and the Jogie — 2:23

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