Karabas: Ah, the old villages hold a breath that is not yet written. If you wish to keep their tales alive in a digital archive, remember that words are only part of a story. Record the voices as well as the words, capture the sounds of the wind through the stone walls, the rustle of the hearth. Use a simple format—audio with a transcript—so that future listeners can hear the cadence that a typed line cannot convey. Keep the archive in a place that is both safe and accessible; a simple folder on a hard drive with a clear naming system will do. When you share it, pair the digital file with a small description of the place, the people, and the season when the story was told. That way the modern tool does not replace the ancient heart, it merely carries it further.

Karabas: Very wise, indeed. Put a plain text file with a title, date, village, and a note about the mood of the tale. Save the audio as WAV or FLAC—no compression, no loss. And when you sit each week, just flip through the folder, listen a few minutes, and decide if you need to add a new entry or a small note. Keep it tidy, and the archive will grow like a tree in the village square, each story a branch that reaches back to the roots.