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Fox and the Crane - Aesopica Series Ep. 1

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    Do you have any memories of listening to stories? Well, I have many. When I was a toddler, my mother used to tuck me inside the bed and tell me sweet bedtime stories to put me to sleep.   As I grew a little older, I often used to complain,” Gawd! I’m so booooooooored!”. Just then, my grandmother would sit me down and tell me stories of scary witches and wonderful fairies. When I was in college and lived in the hostel, a few of us girls would get together in the night. We would close all the doors and windows of the room, turn off the lights and burn a single candle. We’d sit around it to tell spine chilling…. teeth chattering stories of ghosts.    Reading novels, watching movies and web series are all fun, no doubt. But to listen to someone narrate a story is a different kind of fun. And that is exactly what we are going to do now, I am going to narrate stories for you from the famous Aesop’s fables. Not 1, not 2 but 4.   About 2600 years ago,...