The Manairons

The Manairons is an animated short that is adapted from a myth from Catalonia. It is an episode part of the series Animated Tales of the World.

Summary
Set in the Catalonia region, a girl named Beth and her father attempt to buy a horse that her father likes. However, the horse is very expensive to buy and her father decides to play a card game to win money. During the game, her father is unlucky in playing and loses all of his money required to buy the horse. After failing to win a card game, her father competes in a mowing challenge to see what land he can save for himself after Beth noticed that the harvester dropped a tube whom she holds onto.

As the mowing challenge begins the next day, her father participates in the challenge while Beth with her mother and grandmother worry about the outcome. Oona the duck enters their house and removes the stopper from the tube, releasing a bunch of Manairons (a swarm of diminutive mysterious creatures that wreck havoc). As the Manairons begin wrecking havoc, Beth orders them to return to the tube and replaces the stopper. Beth then learns that her grandmother tells her that the Manairons must be controlled by their master when they are released and must be given something to do or they will continue to cause havoc. Beth is the master of these creatures as she has the tube whom the harvester dropped. Beth then leaves the house and escorts the Manairons to the field so they can help her father before the sun goes down. As the Manairons mow the field, Beth's father wins money in the challenge. As a result, Beth's father receives his land and his money back.

Voice Cast

 * India Van Spall - Beth


 * Matthew Marsh - Beth's Father


 * Marcia Warren - The Grandmother


 * Julie Higginson - The Mother


 * Ben Onwukwe - Braggart


 * Bill Wallis - The Notary


 * David Holt - Partner / Harvester