The Story Bag

A Korean Folktale

De: Bill Gordh

Narrado por: Bill Gordh

Duración: 12 m

Resumen del Editor

Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folktale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing.

The wealthy young man and all his family and servants are preparing for his wedding. Later in the day, he will travel by horseback to his fiancée's family's home for the ceremony. One old servant hears a noise down the hall from the kitchen. He sees the story bag where the young man used to store his stories when he was a little boy. He loved stories so much. The stories are angry about being left behind and forgotten about. They are planning to hurt the young man.

One story says it will transform into a bush with red berries the young man will see on his way and not be able to resist stopping and eating, and the berries will be poisonous! Another says it will become a spring of fresh-looking water that will also be poison. Another story says it will become a sharp piece of glass and hide beneath the straw where the young man will step off his horse. Another says it will become a ball of poisonous snakes and hide in the wedding bed.

The old servant runs outside and asks the young man to accompany him to the wedding. When the young man asks to stop for the red berries and then later for a drink of water, the old servant pretends to misunderstand and keeps going. When the young man climbs off his horse, the old servant elbows the horse so it throws the young man off but not on the sharp glass. After he is married and in the bridal chamber, the old servant interrupts and chops the bed in half, killing all the poisonous snakes. The young man asks what is going on. The old servant explains about the story bag.

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