Keeya and The Purple Fish

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This Cinderella-style story from Botswana is a bit sad, but it ends happily. Keeya loses her mother and gains a stepmother and stepsister. The stepmother is a nasty piece, and Keeya gets hungrier and hungrier. Luckily, a purple fish is looking out for her. How can a purple fish help a hungry little girl to find food and a happy ending? Listen to Kim tell this magical fairytale from Southern Africa and find out.

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0:00.0	Hello, super great kids. I hope you had a happy week. I'm happy because our podcast has
0:20.0	been running for two years and we couldn't have done it without you. So thank you all
0:25.7	very much. The story this week is from Botswana, a beautiful country in southern Africa.
0:33.6	Now, here's a little warning. This story is rather sad. It's a little bit like the magic
0:40.4	orange tree story, but it does have a happy ending. It's about a girl who lived with her
0:46.8	stepmother and her step sister. Does that sound like something you recognise? Yes, it's
0:54.7	an African version of a Cinderella story. I first heard this story from a wonderful
1:01.0	storyteller called Hugh Lutton who heard this story when he was travelling in southern
1:06.3	Africa. Did you know that there are over 1,000 versions of the story we know as Cinderella
1:13.6	told around the world and each Cinderella character has a different name. In West Africa
1:20.4	she's called Chignier. In Scotland, she's called Rushing Koti and in England, cap of rushes.
1:28.6	They're all the same character from the French version that we know as Cinderella. Now, in every
1:35.2	Cinderella story, there's some sort of fairy godmother, but not always a kindly old woman like in
1:42.9	the French version. In India, the fairy godmother is often a goat. In Russia, a tree which drops down
1:51.0	the dresses and in China, she's a red fish with golden eyes. I wonder what your fairy godmother
1:58.6	would be like if you were going to tell your own version of Cinderella. Would she be a kindly old
2:04.6	lady or an animal or a magical creature have a little think about what your fairy godmother would
2:11.9	be like while I have a quick chat with the grownups. Hello super great Kim. Hello super great David.
2:21.7	Kim, I have a question. I love questions far away. What is the best kind of story? Well, I think the
2:29.4	best kind of story is an old story which has been told for many years and passed on from person
2:35.4	to person. Oh, that's a good answer. I thought you're going to say something specific like only
2:39.7	Baba Yaga stories or a Nancy stories or stories that have to have two headed giants. No, just a story
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