Podcast Benomtad

By Ben Lundy

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

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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

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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
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 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:
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 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:
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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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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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
April 11, 2025 Return home, Bearing Gifts and Justice in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” Summary Pt. 6: (Clip)
The now gold-chained and red shoe shod little boy bird makes his way next to the miller’s. He negotiates with them for their milling stone and returns home. His family is having dinner, but his stepmother complains she feels unwell and has a sense of doom, in contrast to how the others feel. Meanwhile in the courtyard, the bird sings his song and the father comes out and Marlinchen weeps. The bird drops his possessions and at last, the stepmother comes out, and she receives the miller’s stone…

Problem solved, the bird re-boys and the family returns to their dinner.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)
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For the full episode:
Please see below.

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
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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4min
April 11, 2025 Singing for Red Shoes in the Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” Summary Pt. 5: (Clip)
The little boy bird carries the gold chain in his right foot and flies to the shoemaker’s and repeats his song, adding “What a beautiful bird am I!” The cobbler runs out coatless, calling out his family, and the bird negotiates for little red shoes.

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

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For the full episode:

Please see below.

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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2min
April 11, 2025 Burial & Rebirth and Acquiring Gold in Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” Summary Pt. 4: (Clip)
(Graphic content warning) When Father is finished with seemingly unwittingly eating her brother, she takes his bones and buries them in courtyard under the juniper tree. A great fire appears in the mist and a beautiful bird emerges, singing the tale of the murderous horrors that have befallen the boy. The goldsmith hears and asks the bird to sing again, and the tweeter negotiates for a gold chain.

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

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For the full episode:

Please see below.

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

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 11, 2025 Father Feasts on Black Pudding: Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” Summary Pt. 3: (Clip)
After her stepson’s decapitation, the mother makes black pudding with his body, seasoned with his sister’s tears. Father comes home, and his wife tells him his son has left unexpectedly for an extended vacation. He is dissatisfied, but he devours the pudding, not letting anyone else partake, commenting enigmatically, “It is all mine!” as he disposes of the bones beneath the table.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)
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For the full episode:
Please see below.

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

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

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3min
April 11, 2025 Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” Summary Pt. 2: Decapitation & Tricking Her Daughter (Clip)
Possessed, the stepmother starts to give an apple to Marlinchen, but then saves it for her brother. She decapitates him, and puts his head back on, then tricks her daughter into knocking it off.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)
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For the full episode:
Please see below.

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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4min
April 11, 2025 Brothers Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree” Summary Pt. 1: Infertile Mother Blessed and Buried; New Life Arrives (Clip)
2000 years ago, the wife of an infertile couple goes to the juniper tree in their courtyard and peels an apple. Blood falls on the snow and she wishes to have a child like the snow and blood. Later, she gives birth to a son and passes away and is buried under the tree. Years pass, and the man has a new wife and daughter. The boy’s home life is torment because of his stepmother.

(Sorry about the bad sound on my end. It’s been corrected in future episodes.)
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For the full episode:
Please see below.

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.

...more
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FAQs about Podcast Benomtad:

How many episodes does Podcast Benomtad have?

The podcast currently has 314 episodes available.