Latest / The Three Ravens Podcast
The Enchanted Pig and The Norka | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Red Fairy Book (1890)
Our Lang Fairy Tale episode for today is a double bill, The Enchanted Pig and The Norka.
The Enchanted Pig is a very well known Romanian folk tale, which appears in many different forms, and it's a whole lot of fun! The story compares to East of the Sun and West of the Moon - and possibly wins out against it? Collected by the father of Romanian folklore Petre Ispirescu, we think it's one of the good ones.
We follow that on with The Norka, which the Langs took from one of Alexander Afanasyev's many collections of Ukrainian and Russian tales.
If you're wondering what a 'norka' is, you might not…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.