Fairy Tales from Brazil

Elsie Spicer Eells

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

(3.9 stars; 7 reviews)

This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni) (2 hr 14 min)

Chapters

00 - Preface	2:31	Read by Leni
01 - How the Night Came	7:43	Read by Leni
02 - How the Rabbit Lost His Tail	5:12	Read by Leni
03 - How the Toad Got His Bruises	5:35	Read by Leni
04 - How the Tiger Got His Stripes	10:34	Read by Leni
05 - Why the Lamb Is Meek	8:13	Read by Eric
06 - Why the Tiger and the Stag Fear Each Other	7:41	Read by Karen
07 - How the Speckled Hen Got Her Speckles	9:39	Read by Karen
08 - How the Monkey Became a Trickster	3:38	Read by Diana Majlinger
09 - How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations	6:34	Read by Elizabeth Barr
10 - How the Monkey Got a Drink When He Was Thirsty	5:07	Read by Patrick Wells
11 - How the Monkey Got Food When He Was Hungry	3:34	Read by Patrick Wells
12 - Why the Bananas Belong to the Monkey	6:50	Read by Danarra
13 - How the Monkey Escaped Being Eaten	6:24	Read by Danarra
14 - Why the Monkey Still Has a Tail	5:28	Read by Karen
15 - How Black Became White	6:33	Read by Karen
16 - How the Pigeon Became a Tame Bird	8:11	Read by Karen
17 - Why the Sea Moans	16:47	Read by Eric
18 - How the Brazilian Beetles Got Their Gorgeous Coats	8:17	Read by David Stryker

Reviews

(4 stars)

Patricia

Well done anonymous cast of LibriVox voice! That was delightful.