Things I want to wrap up into a story (talking rock edition)

[magistrate]

• Singing sand dunes (YouTube link; auto-sound)
• Ringing rocks
• Cave chimes (MyNoise link; auto-sound)
• Liar Rocks

On the topic of not-rocks, when I was growing up, I had a cassette tape that had a bunch of folk tales on it. One of them (if I remember correctly, which I very well may not) had to do with a king who was sick, and sent his three sons out looking for a magical cure. Two of the sons get bored of the quest and quit; the third actually found the cure and was bringing it back when his brothers found him, killed him, buried him, and took the cure home to claim the reward. But reeds grew where the good son had been buried, and someone cut the reeds and made a pan flute, and when the pan flute was played, it sang about the brother's death in his voice.

I mostly remember it because the song was creepy and got stuck in my head a lot.  I have never been able to successfully Google the story or its audio.  I really wish I could find it again, though, because nostalgia.

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...I also have a vague memory of this story, and likewise no other ideas of wtf it was called or where it was from. 8 [

[magistrate]

Man, at least I know that either I'm not making it up or I've managed to successfully implant a false memory of it in another person! That's reassuring, in any case.

One day maybe google will be smart enough that I can throw that kind of description at it and have it come back with meaningful results.

...oh! Also, I recently watched a Let's Play of Oxenfree, and decided that you should probably play it, despite its slow beginning and the supposedly world-class cryptographer who writes riddles that literally anyone with a passing familiarity with the NATO Phonetic Alphabet could solve. I have also come to the conclusion that radios and mirrors are just inherently creepy, at least in the context of horror games.

[auto_destruct]

I have heard of this Oxenfree! ...it always manages to remind me of Jei's "The World in Evening" story, mostly because of the name and nothing else. XD

Myths and Legends

[(Anonymous)]

Ask Jason at

https://www.mythpodcast.com/about/

He specializes in folk legends and I seem to remember a story very like this but I can't remember if it was Russian or Greek.

That Folktale is Russian

[(Anonymous)]

That tale is Russian and is called the Apples of Youth, a variation of the tale can be found on page 91 at the Link below:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=tk4oCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91&dq=a+king+who+was+sick,+and+sent+his+three+sons+out+looking+for+a+magical+cure.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9ipvE-LrPAhVkzIMKHUAXBO0Q6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=a%20king%20who%20was%20sick%2C%20and%20sent%20his%20three%20sons%20out%20looking%20for%20a%20magical%20cure.&f=false

From a book called
It’s Russia, My Son. A (partial) Roadmap of the Russian Soul

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