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EP 192: Louisiana- Mr Monkey the Bridegroom; The Tortoise; Brother Hyena, Brother Rabbit, and the Birds' Eggs (Fortier) · Sandman Stories Presents

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  Welcome back listeners to Sandman Stories Presents, a
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  folklore podcast where I read you to sleep or until the next
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  story. I'm your host, Dustin, and today
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  we are back in the book of Creole folklore collected by Al
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  C Fortier. Today I'll be reading three
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  stories. In the first, Mr. Monkey wants
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  to get married but his friend is a hater.
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  In the second, a tortoise turns to stone.
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  And in the third one, Brother Hyena learns that you don't go
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  around telling everyone that you had eggs for breakfast.
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  OK, let's begin. Mr. Monkey, the bridegroom there
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  was a monkey which fell in love with a beautiful young girl.
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  He dressed as a man and went to call on her.
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  He was so well received that one day he took his best friend with
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  him to see his Ladylove. The young girl's father asked
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  Mr. Monkey's friends with questions about his daughter's
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  lover. The friend said that Mister
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  Monkey was good and rich, but there was a secret about him.
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  The father wanted to know the secret, but the friend said he
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  would tell him another day. Mr. Monkey was finally engaged
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  to the young lady, and on the night of the wedding he invited
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  his friend to the supper. The latter was jealous of Mr.
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  Monkey and at the end of the supper he began to sing.
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  This was a song that made all monkeys dance whether they
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  wished to or not. So Mr. Monkey looked at his
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  friend and beckoned him to stop singing.
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  He continued, however, to sing, and all at once Mr. Monkey got
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  up and began to dance. He jumped about so wildly that
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  his tail came out of his clothes and everyone saw that he was a
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  monkey. The father understood the secret
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  and beat him dreadfully. His friend, however, ran off
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  dancing and singing. THE END
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  Okay and story #2, The Tortoise. A gentleman who was living on
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  the banks of a Bayou caught a large tortoise and went
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  immediately to invite some friends to take dinner with him.
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  His little boy, in his absence, went to the cage where the
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  tortoise was, and the latter began to whistle.
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  How well you whistle, said the child.
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  Oh, that is nothing. Open the cage and you will see.
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  The boy opened the cage and the tortoise whistled better than
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  ever. The boy was delighted.
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  Put me down on the floor and you will see, said the tortoise.
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  The boy did so, and the tortoise danced and sang.
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  Oh, how well you dance and sing, said the boy.
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  Put me on the Bank of the Bayou, and you will see, said the
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  tortoise. The boy took her to the Bayou,
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  and the tortoise danced and sang all at once.
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  She disappeared in the water, and the boy began to cry.
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  The tortoise rose in the middle of the Bayou and said, learn not
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  to trust hereafter people whom you do not know.
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  The boy was afraid of his father and put a large flat stone in
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  the cage. The cook, thinking it was the
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  tortoise, put the stone into the kettle.
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  She was astonished to see it remain hard so long, and she
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  called her master's attention to it.
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  He ordered the tortoise be put up on the table, and he took his
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  table knife to cut it. It was in vain.
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  He took the carving knife, in vain he took the hatchet in vain
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  He took the axe. He broke the dish as the table,
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  but the tortoise remained intact.
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  When then he saw it was a stone and to this day he has not
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  understood how his tortoise was changed into a stone.
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  The end Okay and story #3.
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  Brother Hyena, Brother Rabbit and the bird's eggs.
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  Brother Hyena and Brother Rabbit were neighbors.
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  One day, Brother Hyena said to himself that he wished to see
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  what Brother Rabbit was cooking every evening in his cabin.
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  He went to Brother Rabbit's cabin and saw a big kettle on
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  the fire. Oh, what a toothache I have.
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  Brother Rabbit, what do you have in that kettle?
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  It is not your business. Brother Hyena.
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  What smells so good in that kettle, Brother Rabbit?
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  Oh, what a toothache I have. It is birds eggs.
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  Brother Hyena, don't bother me. Oh, what a toothache I have.
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  Let me taste what you have there.
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  It will cure me. Brother Rabbit gave him a few
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  eggs and Brother Hyena found them so good that he wished to
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  know where they were to be found.
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  Brother Rabbit told him that he would take him.
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  The next day. Brother Hyena went home and told
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  his mother that he had a splendid supper at Brother
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  Rabbits. His mother told him to open his
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  mouth so that she might smell what it was that he had eaten.
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  Then she took a small piece of wood and scraped off the teeth
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  of Brother Hyena the small pieces of eggs that remained
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  there. Oh, how good it is, she said.
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  You must get me some. Brother Hyena went early the
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  next morning with Brother Rabbit, who showed him where the
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  eggs were and told him not to take more than one from each
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  nest because the birds would perceive it.
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  Brother Hyena, however, as soon as Rabbit was gone, took all the
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  eggs from every nest. When the birds were turned and
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  saw that all the eggs had been stolen, they were furious and
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  formed a plan to avenge themselves.
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  There was in the woods a Bayou, which was the only place where
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  animals could drink. The birds placed themselves
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  around the Bayou and saw an ox coming.
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  Brother Cow, was it you who ate our eggs?
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  No, my friends, I eat nothing but grass.
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  The horse said he ate nothing but hay.
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  Brother Rabbit said that he ate nothing but carrots and lettuce.
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  But when they questioned Brother Hyena, he replied foolishly.
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  Yes, it is I who ate your eggs. No sooner had he spoken when the
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  birds fell upon him, they put out his eyes and nearly tore him
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  to pieces. The END
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  the first story made me laugh out loud.
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  At the first time I read it, Mr. Monkey getting blocked by his
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  friend by making him do a dance was pretty funny.
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  The second one I really like because the tortoise was able to
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  outsmart the kid. And the third story is a great
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  example of knowing when to keep your big mouth shut.
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  I was a little grossed out by picking the eggs out of the
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  teeth, but hey, that's how the story goes.
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  I'm looking forward to more stories from this book and the
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  podcast. Shout Out is to The Strange
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  Animals with Kate Shaw. This is a really good short
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  podcast, usually around 8 to 10 minutes and it covers an animal
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  or group of animals or a new discovery.
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  Kate Shaw not only does the research and everything for the
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  podcast, but she's also written a couple of books, one on lesser
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  known but very cool animals and two fiction books.
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  And if you like her show as much as I do, go and give her a
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  listen, a rating and a review and the listener shout out is to
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  Cairo, Egypt. I was first introduced to the
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  cool alleyways in pack City of Cairo in the books by Nagib
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  Mafuz, then one of my favorite M C's One Below.
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  Half of the group Binary Star moved his family out there and
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  I've kept up with his Instagram and his music.
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  It looks like an awesome city and I would love to smoke the
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  Nagila and have a cup of coffee with him while watching people
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  pass by. And so to my listeners from
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  Masri, especially Cairo, I say I love Shukran.
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  What is belocher? Thank you and good night.