Deirdre brings a tale more commonly associated with the Brothers Grimm - seven little goats are tricked by a wolf and swallowed whole, but their mother has a trick up her sleeve... Mark and Eleanor discuss how this could have possibly been told as a children's story (!), how storytellers can portray animals using only their voices, and Eleanor describes how anthropologists in 2013 used an algorithm to track where and when this story came from.
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Featuring Eleanor Walsh and Mark Ó Géaráin. The Wolf and Seven Young Goats is told by Deirdre Quinn.
Recorded in the National Leprechaun Museum of Ireland.
