Podcast Benomtad

By Ben Lundy

Open, friendly, philosophical discussions about folktales, society, culture, and wisdom.

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April 15, 2025 To Each What is Owed (Clip)
The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. The previously-barren woman gets her wish, but she pays with her life – and she’s happy as she goes down to the depths. Later, the stepmother keeps the apples away from the children and uses one to trick her daughter into thinking she’s killed her brother. While food is religious to the original mother – paying in sacrifice and gratitude for life she is given – it’s a tool to the stepmother.

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree.”)

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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3min
April 14, 2025 Eating and Food in this Story (Clip)
(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree.”) There is a lot of eating and food in this dark story, including cannibalism. The wish for a child at the beginning, the devouring of the tormented boy, the interrupted meal, the implement of revenge on the stepmother. It is related to the mother’s fertility and protection.
(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)
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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
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https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 13, 2025 Abrupt Death and Rejoicing (Clip)
Abrupt Death and Rejoicing (Clip)

Everything happens step-by-step in this story until BOOM–the stepmother is crushed under the millstone. She goes down to her fate, to her master. Then the opera resumes, the again-whole family rejoices and goes to finish their dinner.

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree.”)

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

For more in this podcast, please go to:
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 13, 2025 A Drop of Blood (Clip)
The importance of blood in these stories. It is associated with maturity and death, and new life, the cycles of nature. Also, blood dropping to the ground may be a kind of psychological seeding or offering, since it’s a sacrifice. From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree”

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 13, 2025 In His Second Life, the Boy’s True Promise is Shown (Bro. Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree”) (Clip)
The Strong Spirit Glimmers Quickly: In the story, the beauty of the boy’s resurrection comes soon after his being consumed by his father. This may have to do with the compressed time period of this story and it seems like a non-modern, non-realistic version of the story. It’s like hope springs like a shoot as soon as the seeds are planted, indicating fecundity. It might be said that here, with his second birth, the boy’s true promise is shown.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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2min
April 13, 2025 Mythological and Religious Symbolism in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” (Clip)
A phoenix-like bird; there is heavy mother symbolism (branches moving as if in an embrace). Marlinchen instinctively knows her brother is there.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 13, 2025 Community and Reintegration (Wholeness) in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” (Clip)
Due to the stepmother’s selfishness, something was taken from the family, and he is reincarnated and goes about the community collecting things. Revenge and atonement both are linked to being made whole again. Interesting that the implement of her murder is the communal millstone.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/benomtad
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 12, 2025 Missing Articles of Clothing in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” (Clip)
Why do both the goldsmith and the shoemaker miss an article of clothing when they go out to meet the little bird? There may be a relation to the community of the story, how everyone misses something and completes others,exchanges with others, except, of course, the stepmother, who has stepped out of the community with her atrocity.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
X:
https://x.com/Benomtad
Facebook:
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 12, 2025 Internal Character States in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” (Clip)
This story mentions many of the internal states of the characters.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ibjaf-187ad01

For more in this podcast, please go to:
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https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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Facebook:
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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2min
April 12, 2025 The Brothers Grimm’s "The Juniper Tree”
The Brothers Grimm’s "The Juniper Tree”

(The Juniper Tree is a dark tale and will be disturbing to some.) Two thousand years ago, a rich man and his wife are unable to have a child. She goes to the juniper tree in their courtyard paring an apple and cuts her finger, dropping blood onto the snow. She suddenly feels her wish will be realized. One month passes, then two; the snow melts, spring blooms and the tree fills in. After eight months she eats from the tree and grows sick, and dies from joy when the snow white and blood red boy is born. The father remarries and they have a daughter, but the stepmother grows to hate the boy and hits him. He knows no peace outside of school. One day, the daughter comes home and wishes for an apple. The mother unlocks the cupboard and hands her one, then angrily takes it back after the daughter asks about the son. The devil enters her heart and when he comes up and asks for an apple, she gets him to go over to the cupboard and decapitates him. She then uses a handkerchief to hide the wound and gets the girl to think she killed him. She then cooks the boy into a black pudding, with Marlinchen’s tears for salt, and the father hungrily devours all the pudding himself. Marlinchen then gathers the bones from under the table in a silk handkerchief and goes down and out to the juniper tree, where she sees a mist and then fire, and a beautiful bird soars out. Her grief turns to exuberance and the bundle is gone. The bird sings beautifully atop the goldsmith’s shop, and the goldsmith comes outside, leaving a slipper. The bird won’t repeat his song for nothing, and the goldsmith gives him the gold necklace he’d been working on, and he repeats his song: Mother killed me, father ate me, sister gathered my bones and laid them beneath a juniper tree, kwitt what a beautiful bird I am! At the shoemaker, coatless, red shoes are paid after the whole family is brought out, then millers at work all agree to the gift of the millstone. (All these are sacrifices of the fruit of their work, except for the millstone, which is the very implement of their work, so that the bird can, instead of a gift for, a job done to, the stepmother)

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)
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For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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44min

FAQs about Podcast Benomtad:

How many episodes does Podcast Benomtad have?

The podcast currently has 300 episodes available.