Fairy Tale Fix

Kelsey tells the story of The Kindly Magician (but was he?) from one of our favorite books, Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends. Abbie reads a story about a father who (as usual) promises way too much, too soon, and his very clever daughter in The Monkey Bridegroom.

Abbie tells an uplifting story that is the fairy tale equivalent of meeting drunk girls in a bar bathroom, The Three Mermaids, as told by our favorite fairy tale goddess Ruth Manning-Sanders. Kelsey then ruins the entire episode and feel-good vibe with a very short and disturbing tale, The Wolves.

FINALLY, more Baba Yaga! Kelsey retells the popular Russian fairy tale Vasilisa The Beautiful, a dark tale of a poor maiden who is forced into the woods, and what deadly mysteries live within those woods you might wonder… Meanwhile, Abbie tells a dreamy Brazilian folk tale, The Princess With The 7 Pairs Of Shoes. Do you think that’s enough shoes though?

Abbie tells us the story of a cat that’s dressing for the job he wants, Puss In Boots, while Kelsey tells the story of the Old Woman In The Wood, where a spunky maiden trespasses and rummages through a poor old woman’s jewelry at the behest of a bird.

Kelsey and Abbie discuss one of the greatest modern fairy tales of all time: Shrek! by William Steig.

Abbie tells one of the potentially best fairy tales of all time if only everyone hadn’t behaved so badly, East O’ The Sun and West O’ The Moon. Kelsey retells an existentially traumatic yet beautiful tale from our favorite known bisexual disaster, Hans Christian Andersen, The Teapot.

Abbie tells one of the potentially best fairy tales of all time if only everyone hadn’t behaved so badly, East O’ The Sun and West O’ The Moon. Kelsey retells an existentially traumatic yet beautiful tale from our favorite known bisexual disaster, Hans Christian Andersen, The Teapot.

This week Kelsey tells the story that inspired one of her favorite video games, Kunuuksaayuka, an Iñupiat story by Robert Nasruk Cleveland and collected in the Stories of the Black River People. Abbie follows it up with a cautionary tale about butterflies, Tolowim Woman and Butterfly Man, from the Maidu Indigenous peoples.

Abbie reads the best fairy tale of ALL TIME, hands down, The Wonderful Shirt from A Choice of Magic. This is really the tale that started the idea for this podcast and we are so excited for you to hear it! Kelsey tells a very short springtime tale about a Goblin Combe from Botanical Folk Tales.

We are taking a sharp turn this week on Fairy Tale Fix with our first guest star, Dustin Alexander! Dustin tells us about the OG Lumbersexual and popular American folktale legend Paul Bunyan, while Abbie and Kelsey somehow pick the same fairy tale (out of hundreds), In The Jaws of the Merman.