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The Woodcutter Who Forgot the Quiet Night

11 min · Field and river · Wonder · Wisdom

On the one night each year when his village lays down its work, a diligent and forgetful woodcutter carries his bundle into the moonlit forest, and a gentle voice invites him to become the lantern that reminds everyone else to rest.

Retold from The Book of Nature Myths, by Florence Holbrook.

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Story 13 of How Things Came to Be, starting at 2:44:37.