This is a CBC Podcast.

Circle Round from W-B-U-R is a storytelling podcast for kids and kids at heart.

Hosted by Rebecca Sheer, Circle around adapts folk tales from around the world

to teach important universal lessons like kindness, generosity, and more.

Here is the story why the ocean is salty.

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If you could wish for anything, anything at all, what would it be? Would it be something

you want or something you need? It's not always easy to tell the difference, right?

Today we'll hear the story of two brothers, one magic jar,

and a wish so big it filled the entire ocean. I'm Rebecca Shear and welcome to circle round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called Why the Ocean is Salty.

Versions of this story have been told all over Asia, including Vietnam on the South

China Sea and the Island Nation of the Philippines.

Some really great people came together to help bring this one to you,

including Lou Diamond Phillips and John John Brione's.

So, circle around everyone for why the ocean is salty.

Once upon a time, very long ago, there were two brothers. These brothers were very different

from each other. The older one whose name was Rizaldo was loud and impatient. The younger brother, whose name

was bayani, was quiet and didn't like to ask for anything or get in anyone's way.

Rizaldo and Bayani's father ran a successful fishing business.

By the time he was old, he had more than enough money for food and was able to build a comfortable home for his family.

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