“I had no idea that the gate I would step through 
 to finally enter this world 

would be the space my brother’s body made.”

From “The Gate” by Marie Howe 

Many of the most familiar fairytales, and the issues and questions these tales raise, revolve around the happily-ever-after marriage between prince and princess, king and queen. But there is another important male-female pairing and another intimate bond, the one between siblings. 

In this podcast I tell the last in a trilogy of stories about sisters who save their brothers from enchantments, “The Seven Ravens,” collected by the Brothers Grimm. 

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