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Join me for tonight's really creepy and weird fairy tale. It's weird and very creepy and just consider this your warning! We follow one girl, a princess, who desperately tries to escape her father's attempts to MARRY HER. Not marry her off, but MARRY HER. She asks for a cloak of hundreds of animal furs, dresses, and then runs away to a forest. A neighboring (we hope) king finds her on a hunt and brings her to work in his kitchen, where she is called "Cat Skin" after her cloak. It's weird. There is a ball (well, three!) cooking, toast, soup, etc. This tale, the Brothers Grimms' "Cat-Skin," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's odd fairytale story!

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This tale is from a compendium of tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, my animated illustrations and Creative Commons music (above).

This episode originally released on YouTube on November 3, 2020.

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Too much buzzing in your skull to sleep?! Let's have a fairytale double feature with the Brothers Grimm! Tonight's tales are loosely threaded by sewing. Join me for "The Elves and the Shoemaker" and "The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean," which are read in a soft voice with some commentary and set to light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's short stories!

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This tale is from a compendium of tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, my animated illustrations, and Creative Commons music (above).

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In the mood for good cat fairytale? Join me this evening for the Charles Perrault classic "Puss in Boots" or "The Master Cat!" You will absolutely see elements that made it into the animated Shrek movie. This tale, Charles Perrault's "Puss in Boots" or "The Master Cat" is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's catty fairytale!

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This tale is from a compendium of fairy tales collected by Charles Perrault, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, illustrations and Creative Commons music (above).

This episode originally released on YouTube on September 25, 2020.

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This twisted grim tale has it all: bad bargains, enchanted castles, cursed princesses, broken vows, and high adventure! Join me for a soft reading of the Brothers Grimms' "The King of the Golden Mountain," read in a soft voice with commentary peppered throughout.

This story, "The King of the Golden Mountain" from the Brothers Grimm, is now in public domain. I have added my voice, commentary, animations, and creative commons music.

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A Queen disguises herself in order to save the King from a terrible fate in prison. (Yes, he deserved it I'm sure but...) Her ingenious plot and theatrics win the heart of his captor, her husband's freedom, and also somehow make the unfortunate King angry at the Queen... before he learns the truth! Join me, friends and fiends, for tonight's love-lost-and-found fairytale, "The Lute Player!" It's full of disguises, lutes, adventures, songs, and oblivious kings.

Tonight's fairytale, "The Lute Player," is from the Violet Fairy Book, and is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's Happily Ever After fairytale!

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This tale is from a compendium of fairy tales, and is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, my animations, illustrations, and Creative Commons music (above).

This episode originally released on YouTube on May 30, 2021.

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Some fairytales are frustrating. This is one such tale. We start off with an evil stepmother who sets impossible tasks for the beautiful Helena. She ends up meeting a swift end, and Helena becomes a renown beauty, who falls for the wrong man. She then upends her life to try to find him, living as a poor herder, only to find he's moved on to a new King's daughter! Helena still won't give up her pursuit and claim to his heart, and so tries to sweep him off his feet yet again... this time at his own wedding feast. 

This story, "Prince Fickle and Fair Helena" is from Andrew Lang's "The Green Fairy Book," which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, commentary, animations, and creative commons music.

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In the need of a happy distraction? Let's get Grimm! Join me for tonight's fairy tale set back Once Upon a Time, where we follow a lucky tailor as he uncovers a evil magician's creepy plot to take over a castle, imprison the princess in a glass coffin (which is really more like a glass chest, but I digress), capture her people as gas and vapor in glass jars, and turn her beloved brother into a Stag! A lot happens, yet nothing happens, but it's a happy ending all the same, which, I don't know about you, but is really welcome to me right now! This tale, the Brothers Grimms' "The Glass Coffin," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale story!

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This tale is from a compendium of tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, my animated illustrations and Creative Commons music (above).

This episode originally released on YouTube on November 6, 2020.

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Welcome to the wonderful land of Oz! Join me for a relaxed reading of Frank L Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Chapter 5: The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. Tonight we meet and rescue the Tin Woodman, and hear his tragic and literally heartbreaking tale, of being cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East herself!

Timestamps:

0:00 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Audiobook

0:16 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Recap So Far

0:51 - Chapter 5: The Rescue of the Tin Woodman

This story, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is now in public domain. The illustrations by W.W. Denslow are also in public domain. I have added my voice, very light commentary, animations, and creative commons music (below).

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Would you be able to find your way through a dark, underground palace? Would you magically know the secret password to open hidden doors? This king is counting on your failure... but let's just see how one brave (and bold!) suitor can master the underground labyrinth in order to find the princess bride!

Once upon a time there was a king who had great riches, which, when he died, he divided among his three sons. The two eldest of these lived in rioting and feasting, and thus wasted and squandered their father’s wealth till nothing remained, and they found themselves in want and misery. The youngest of the three sons, on the contrary, made good use of his portion. He married a wife and soon they had a most beautiful daughter, for whom, when she was grown up, he caused a great palace to be built underground, and then offed the architect who had built it. Next he shut up his daughter inside, and then sent heralds all over the world to make known that he who should find the king’s daughter should have her to wife. If he were not capable of finding her then he must die.

Many young men sought to discover her, but all perished in the attempt... Will this be a "happily ever after" fairytale? We shall see!

Join me for tonight's travails amid underground caves, caverns, and beautiful palace walls! The catch is: we are following the tale of one handsome would-be suitor as he is disguised AS A SHEEP! Well, a lamb specifically. Apparently this fools the king and who knows, it could win the brave bold young man a princess as a wife! This fairytale, "The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale bedtime story!

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This tale is from a compendium of tales collected by the Andrew Lang, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, my animated illustrations, and Creative Commons music (above).

This episode originally released on YouTube on June 3, 2021.

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Welcome back to the wonderful land of Oz! Join me for a relaxed reading of Frank L Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Chapter 3: How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow and Chapter 4: The Road Through the Forest. This is part one of our book adventure into Oz!

This story, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is now in public domain. The illustrations by W.W. Denslow are also in public domain. I have added my voice, very light commentary, animations, and creative commons music (below).

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