The Doomed Prince — North Africa & Maghreb (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel back to ancient Egypt, to a story written on the back of a papyrus in the British Museum. At the prince's birth the Seven Hathors say he will die by the crocodile, the snake, or the dog, and his father builds him a stone house in the desert to keep him from all three. Then the boy goes up on the roof and sees a greyhound on the road below, and asks for one. I should say now, before we start, that this story has no ending — and I will explain why when we get there.
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