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A club for listeners like you.

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Now that we've wrapped up season three of Circle Round, we are hard at work on our next season,

with dozens of brand new episodes for you to feast your ears on.

In the meantime, here's a special encore edition from our archives,

a fun and magical story that really resonates with us during this time in history,

when we're all spending more time at home.

We have a new story coming your way soon.

Until then, enjoy!

When you hear the word power, what comes to mind?

Electricity maybe, or something really strong perhaps, like a bulldozer or a blue whale?

In today's story, we'll meet a character who wishes for more power, and he gets it.

Or so he thinks.

I'm Rebecca Scher, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called the most powerful of all.

The versions of this folktale come from a lot of places.

In Asia, it's been shared in Japan, China, India, and Siberia.

It's also been told in Spain, Latin America, plus the southwestern United States, home of the zoony people.

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