How Night Came to the Amazon — Andean & Amazonian (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the great slow rivers of the Amazon, to a time before there was any such thing as night. The world was all one endless day, and nothing had ever closed its eyes. But the daughter of the Great Serpent had grown up in the cool shadows at the bottom of the river, and she was fading in all that light — so three servants were sent down to fetch back a little of the dark. They were told not to open the bag. About the loveliest possible episode to fall asleep to.
Brazilian / Amazonian tradition. Recorded as "How Night Came" in Elsie Spicer Eells, *Fairy Tales from Brazil: How…
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