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EP 296: Louisiana- The Statue of St Anthony, Little Boys and the Giants, The Men who Became Birds (Fortier) · Sandman Stories Presents

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  Welcome back listeners to Sandman's Stories Presents, a
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  folklore podcast wherever you to sleep or until the next story.
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  I'm your host, Dustin. If you want more Sandman, I have
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  extra stories that are too spicy for the main feed available on
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  my Patreon. You can even join at the free
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  tier and get everything. Today we are back in the book of
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  Louisiana folk tales written down by Elsie Fortier.
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  In the first story, we learn about how eavesdropping can lead
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  to romance, in the second we see what happens when you run away
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  from home, and in the final story, we see how families take
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  care of each other. OK, let's begin the statue of
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  Saint Anthony. In a small town there lived a
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  Shoemaker who had a beautiful daughter.
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  One day she saw a young man enter the house next to hers,
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  and soon she fell in love with him.
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  She asked the old cook what she could do to make this young man
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  fall in love with her. The old woman told her to pray
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  to Saint Anthony, so she did, but to little effect.
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  Perhaps he is deaf, said the cook.
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  Let's make a hole in his ears. When they were trying to pour a
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  hole in the ears of the wooden statue, the young man's servant
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  came out into the shop. He asked the two women what they
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  were doing. They said they wanted Saint
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  Anthony to hear their prayer. The servant made holes in the
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  ears of the statue and waited outside the door to hear what
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  the young girl was so anxious to ask for.
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  As soon as he heard that the young girl was asking Saint
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  Anthony to obtain the love of her neighbor for herself, he ran
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  to his master and related the story.
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  The latter felt so much flattered by the love of the
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  young beautiful girl that he fell in love with her and in
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  turn married her. The end.
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  OK and story #2 The little boys and the giants.
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  Once Upon a time there were two little boys who lived in a house
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  not far from a river. Their parents had forbidden them
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  to ever go near the river, but one day they ran away, and
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  taking a skiff which was in the river, they rode and rode.
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  I believe that they rode for 1,000,000 miles.
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  When night came they were very much afraid, and they did not
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  know where to go. While they were looking at a
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  light off in the distance, some giants came to catch them.
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  They climbed up a tree, but the giants merely shook the tree,
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  and the poor boys fell down. They were carried to the House
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  of the giants, where they found many other little boys.
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  They were all fed on milk and harmony so that they might grow
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  fat, and every day a few of the little boys were cooked and
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  eaten by the giants. Not far from the House of the
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  giants lived an old woman who was a witch.
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  One day the father of the two little boys who had run away,
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  came to the old woman's house with his friends and asked her
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  if she had seen his boys. She replied that they were in a
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  house nearby, in front of the door of which was a Pebble not
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  larger than small marble. The men went to the house and
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  found out that the Pebble had become a rock as big as a
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  mountain. They had a lot of trouble
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  pushing aside the rock and opening the door, but at last
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  they entered the house, killed the giants, and brought back
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  their little boys. The end.
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  OK and the third story, the men who became birds.
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  Once Upon a time there was a lady who had 12 children, 11
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  boys and one girl. The poor lady died and her
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  husband married again. His second wife was a witch who
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  was very bad in the daytime. She changed the 11 boys into
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  birds and allowed them to take their human forms only at night.
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  As for the girl, she changed her into one of the black servants
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  that worked at the house. Her father did not recognize the
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  New Girl and so we sent her out of the house.
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  The witch treated her husband's children in that way because she
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  wanted him to leave his money to her own children.
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  When the poor girl was kicked out of her father's house, she
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  went to see her brothers and told them what had happened to
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  her. They said that the next morning
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  they would take her to another country.
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  They made a bed with leaves, and the next day, when they were
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  birds again, each one took a hold of the bed in his beak, and
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  they carried their sister far away into another country.
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  They placed her in a forest and built a Pretty Little Hut for
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  her. One day an old witch passed by
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  the Hut, and when she saw the young girl she asked her what
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  she was doing there. The poor girl related her story
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  and the witch told her that she could tell her how to turn her
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  brothers into men all the time. She must make a shirt for each
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  of her brothers and not to sew the shirts, but to weave them
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  and to not speak until the shirts were ready.
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  It took her a long time to do the work and when she was almost
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  done, just one shirt was missing one sleeve.
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  Her stepmother found out where she was and had her arrested as
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  a witch. They were taking her to prison
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  when the 11 brothers flew around the cart.
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  She immediately threw the shirts over them and they became men
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  again and rescued their sister. As one of the shirts only had
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  one sleeve. The brother who received that
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  shirt had one bird wing for the rest of his life.
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  The end. Oh OK.
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  I like the romance in the first one.
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  There are a lot of relics and Saints in such New Orleans and
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  sometimes the person needing to hear your prayer is sitting
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  close by. Good communication saves
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  relationships. And the second story had a bit
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  of a Hansel and Gretel to it. It's dangerous to run away from
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  home and especially in a swamp. And the final story was a nice
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  bit of family help. In the original the witch turns
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  the daughter into a black woman and it didn't seem to further
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  the story at all so I changed it up right quick.
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  I like these stories but this book is almost hold out.
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  In the meantime, I'll look for something else from the
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  Caribbean to fill the gap. And the podcast Shout Out is to
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  the History of China hosted. By Chris.
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  This is an amazing overview of Chinese history by a guy who
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  really knows his stuff. He moved to China about the same
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  time that I moved to Korea, but he was already fluent in
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  Mandarin. This is a wonderful history
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  podcast and it will give you a great perspective on Chinese
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  culture through history. And if you love his show as much
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  as I do, go and give him a like a rating and a review and the
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  listener shout out. According to Google, Luzanne is
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  a city on Lake Geneva in the French speaking region of Vogue
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  Switzerland. It's home to the International
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  Olympic Committee headquarters, as well as the Olympic Museum
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  and Lakeshore Olympic Park. Away from the lake, the hilly
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  old city has a medieval shop, line streets and a 12th century
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  Gothic cathedral with an ornate facade.
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  The 19th century Palais de Romine houses fine art and
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  science museums, and it looks like a nice place, but it might
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  be a bit pricey to visit. And so to my listener in
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  Louisiana, I say merci Y Bonnie. Thank you.
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  And good night.