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Tonight, we are offering the first part of the story The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water, the singing tree, and the golden water from 1,001 nights.

This episode is remastered and rebroadcast.

The original air date was on January 11th, 2019 as one of Snuscasts first episodes.

Our next episode, coming out Friday, will feature part two of this story, also known as the Arabian Nights.

1001 Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic golden age, which ran from the 8th to the 14th

centuries. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Greek, Indian, Jewish, and Turkish

folklore and literature.

What is common throughout all the editions of the Knights is the initial frame story of the ruler and his wife and the Some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord.

Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 100 and one or more.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

The talking bird, the singing tree, and the golden water.

There was an emperor of Persia named Kossruscha,

who, when he first came to his crown in order to obtain a knowledge of affairs,

took great pleasure in night excursions, attended by a trustee minister.

He often walked in disguise through the city and met with many adventures, one of the most remarkable of which happened to

him upon his first ramble, which was not long after his ascension to the throne of his father.

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