Fairy Tale Fix

Bringing some true holiday nightmare fuel to your ears, Kelsey tells the world’s most depressing Christmas story ever, The Fir Tree, while Abbie tells the world’s weirdest fairy tale ever, The Snowman, both tales by known bisexual disaster Hans Christian Andersen. Brace yourself because both of these are TRULY WTF and that’s why we love them.

In this very special episode of Fairy Tale Fix, Abbie covers the Ballad of Mulan and then Abbie and Kelsey discuss the 1998 Disney film versus the 2020 Disney film.

Kelsey tells the strangely unsatisfying tale of Buttercup / Butterball / Butterbuck (or better still, Smørbukk) by the Norwegian fairy tale collectors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, while Abby covers TWO animal folk tales, Why Is The Bear Stumpy Tailed (another tale from Asbjørnsen and Moe) and Elephant And Hare, a story from the Massai people in Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Abbie and Kelsey read your stories! This first Listener Tales episode includes stories of hilarious things parents tell their kids to get them to behave and how they unexpectedly backfire on them, as well as how strongly kids believe in stuff and the destruction that ensues to prove a point.

Kelsey covers The Goose Girl from the Brothers Grimm (story told to them by Dorothea Viehmann), and Abby covers one of the many Russian folk tales of Baba Yaga (who is NOT John Wick but an old witch).

Just in time for Halloween, Abbie covers the classic Brother’s Grimm Hansel & Gretel, while Kelsey retells the lesser-known but equally thrilling Golden Hair. They also discuss their best Halloween costumes and favorite candies.

Kelsey covers the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale The Wild Swans, and how some kingdoms really need to focus on their education systems and vampire infestations rather than kidnapping poor mute maidens. Abbie tells a tale of Toads and Diamonds...and...how exactly does this gift/curse work??

Welcome to Fairy Tale Fix, a WTF fairy tale podcast. Abbie starts off spooky season with the fearsome tale of Bluebeard by Charles Perrault from the Blue Fairy Book, while Kelsey covers The Magic Lake from A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young maiden with a face so fair and voice so eloquent no one could help but adore her. And, oh ho! Did she have a friend! But unbeknownst to the maiden, her good friend was a witch.