This is a Grimm Brothers story, so there is a bit of religiosity, a very brief mention of suicide (I try to blow past it as quickly as possible), and one of those rare deals with the devil that actually works out alright for the main character.

To show off your intelligence, I provide the following three words that I had to look up how to properly pronounce so that if one of your kiddos asks, you'll have the answer readily available:

~paternoster - the "Lord's prayer" according to Catholic tradition

~ducats - gold coins

~hussar - a Hungarian horseman in the calvary

Hopefully that helps you out!

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This is a super-short story, but it required a bit of technical magic too, so *I* had fun all the same. And, being a very short story, was ideal for while we're on vacation.

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23b! It's the second half of the Brother's Grimm fairy tale about a husband and wife that get everything coming to them!

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23a? What does that mean? It means that we're splitting up the story into two different weeks (next week will be 23b). If you like it, or if you don't, please do let us know!

This is a Brother's Grimm fairy tale about a husband and wife that some may find familiar. I certainly hope it inspires some gratitude!

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Hello everyone, and happy 4th of July! In celebration of American Independence Day, we're going through an American tall tale - Paul Bunyan.

Now the original tall tales aren't in print. The originals have been lost to time, but have survived by countless amounts of retelling. What that means is that, in order to share it here, I had to exercise a bit of creativity and pull some of my favorite bits and pieces together to make this.

So it's not so much of a "story" as it is "a list of things about Paul and the people around him." Americans seem determined to do things differently sometimes, but I snuck in one metric measurement, just to poke a bit of fun.

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This is a brief little tale from the Brother's Grimm that is more silly than anything else. I suppose the idea was to come up with a "why is this thing in nature the way that it is" type story. No real morals, just some fun ideas.

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For Father's day, we wanted to share a good "father" oriented story, but you'd be amazed how few stories actually have a father figure in them who acts responsibly. After searching, I came down on the idea of telling one of the stories of Odin, the "all father."

Odin's stories go beyond the Norse myths; he's appeared as a wise, one-eyed wanderer in countless other stories. In fact, Shakespeare created the term "Odinic wanderer" to describe the phenomenon.

This story is one of those, where the story isn't so much about HIM (disguised as Hrani the farmer) as it touches on how his wisdom came to influence the hero of another story.

So, in typical father fashion, I have taken what you came here for (a story) and twisted it into a lesson about something I think is neat and not especially important Happy Father's Day!

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I really love the lessons we can learn from Aesop's fables. There are so many simple precepts that would improve lives if they were followed! Here are the list of fables from today's podcast:

• The Crow & the Pitcher
• The Wolf & the Crane
• The Plane Tree
• The Owl & the Grasshopper
• The Oak & the Reeds
• The Wild Boar & the Fox
• The Heron
• The Fox & the Stork
• The Stag & His Reflection
• The Cock & the Fox

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There are so many wonderful stories of Anansi the trickster, but we felt that the one about getting stories would be an appropriate way to begin the Anansi tales!

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Rapunzel is the story for this week and during my research, I discovered that the brothers Grimm released two different versions. I don't know if or when we'll do the second one, but this was the first of the two.

When reading it, I was confused when it said the woman "saw rapunzel" in the garden and had to look it up. I learned that it's a vegetable, which is how the baby girl got that particular name! You may have already known that, but I certainly did not!

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