The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

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The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ship must pass the three great dangers of the middle sea. First the meadow of the singing women, the Sirens, whose song no sailor is meant to survive. Then the narrow water between the cave and the whirlpool, Scylla and Charybdis, where the strait itself takes its toll. And last the green island of the sun and its forbidden cattle, and the storm that answers a broken oath. A grave and gentle telling for sleep, every danger named softly and never shown, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.

Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:45 Chapter One: The Shore Lore of the Goddess
14:14 Chapter Two: The Wind She Sent
23:01 Chapter Three: The Meadow of the Singers
33:56 Chapter Four: The Choice of Roads
43:25 Chapter Five: The Toll of the Strait
51:47 Chapter Six: The Green Island of the Sun
1:01:59 Chapter Seven: The Second Becalming
1:11:57 Chapter Eight: The Hunger That Broke the Oath
1:21:28 Chapter Nine: The Sea Keeps Its Word
1:30:18 Chapter Ten: The Grip on the Fig Tree
1:36:35 Chapter Eleven: Nine Days on the Kind Current
1:42:39 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Softest Shore the Sea Owned

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnPpfnBDTnE
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the travelers sail to the quiet edge of the world, where the living may speak once more with the friends they have lost. A blind prophet gives the way home, a mother is met again, and the great names of the old war come softly out of the mist to talk a while by a small fire. A tender, grave telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.

Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:28 Chapter One: The Reminder at the Fire
11:02 Chapter Two: The Young Man Who Missed the Sailing
18:00 Chapter Three: The Edge of the World
24:15 Chapter Four: The First Asking
30:20 Chapter Five: The Old Man with the Golden Staff
39:38 Chapter Six: His Mother's Face
47:13 Chapter Seven: The Counting of the Queens
54:47 Chapter Eight: The King Who Came Home to the Dark
1:03:28 Chapter Nine: The Gladdest Ghost
1:11:12 Chapter Ten: The Silence in the Meadow
1:16:23 Chapter Eleven: The Far Figures
1:23:48 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Promise Kept at Morning

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x4UEGwuLzvs
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the wind king gives a gift no one should open, home comes so close the watch fires can be seen, and a gentle enchantress on a green island keeps the weary travelers a whole slow year. This is the tale of the bag of winds and the house of Circe told for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.

Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:30 Chapter One: The Floating Island
11:15 Chapter Two: The Gift of the Tied Winds
17:16 Chapter Three: Nine Days Awake at the Steering Oar
23:35 Chapter Four: The Opening of the Bag
29:23 Chapter Five: The Closed Door
34:43 Chapter Six: The Harbor of the Giants
43:39 Chapter Seven: The Island of the Low Smoke
50:00 Chapter Eight: The House of the Singing Witch
59:46 Chapter Nine: The Flower with the Black Root
1:07:21 Chapter Ten: The Wand That Failed
1:21:04 Chapter Eleven: The Year of Rest
1:28:44 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Year of Rest

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eHamdubluU
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ships come to the island of the one eyed giant, and a clever captain saves his men with a cup of dark wine and a single word for a name. This is the tale of the Cyclops told gently for sleep, the guest law and the giant who broke it, the name that was No One, and the quiet escape under the warm wool of the rams at morning. Calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.

Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:43 Chapter One: The First Shore
11:38 Chapter Two: The Priest's Wine
15:40 Chapter Three: Nine Days of the Wrong Wind
20:24 Chapter Four: The Honey Sweet Country
26:21 Chapter Five: The Island of the Shepherd Giants
37:22 Chapter Six: The Question of the Guest Law
46:51 Chapter Seven: The Host Who Ate the Guest Law
53:37 Chapter Eight: The Name That Was No One
1:02:55 Chapter Nine: The Price of the Door
1:08:45 Chapter Ten: Under the Rams at Morning
1:18:46 Chapter Eleven: The Shout Across the Water
1:29:19 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Wake in the Dark Water

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dblcjNoUJkg
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the story is the oldest trick ever told. Ten long years the war for Troy would not end, until one restless mind thought of a horse of wood and a city that opened its own gates. This is the fall of Troy told gently, from the singer at the fire to the ships turning at last for home, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.

Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:43 Chapter One: The Song This Fire Will Not Steal
9:33 Chapter Two: The Ten Years Told as Weather
17:51 Chapter Three: The Mind the War Leaned On
24:56 Chapter Four: The Beggar Inside the Walls
34:24 Chapter Five: The Falling of the Brightest Star
44:01 Chapter Six: The Armor and the Silence
49:48 Chapter Seven: The Boy from Skyros
58:30 Chapter Eight: The Archer and the Old Bow
1:05:51 Chapter Nine: The Idea of the Horse
1:17:13 Chapter Ten: The Night of Held Breath
1:35:55 Chapter Eleven: The Ships Turn Home
1:46:40 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Ships Turning Home

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jXJmzh-Nceo
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight we open Season Four, the Odyssey, at the very beginning of the road to Troy. Long before the wooden horse, before the ten long years, a thousand ships put out to sea for the first time and made land on the wrong shore. This is the story of the false start, the wounded king, and the strange oracle that said the one who dealt the wound was the only one who could heal it. A slow, gentle telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose.

Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire
4:44 Chapter One: The Morning After the Dawn
12:34 Chapter Two: The Sea Without Signposts
19:15 Chapter Three: The Landfall That Lied
25:15 Chapter Four: The King of the Wrong Country
35:04 Chapter Five: The Spear and the Wound
42:09 Chapter Six: The Scattering
48:36 Chapter Seven: The Years Between
55:53 Chapter Eight: The Wound That Would Not Close
1:03:45 Chapter Nine: The Beggar at the Door of the Kings
1:15:07 Chapter Ten: The Rust of the Spear
1:24:18 Chapter Eleven: The Guide Who Knew the Water
1:34:07 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Road Found at Last

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gAJ0kDVRpL8
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story for the night of the full moon, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller reaches the last page of the old book, and she has saved it for this exact night: The Moon Princess, from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the tenth century Japanese story sometimes called the oldest fairy tale of all. An old bamboo cutter finds a stalk glowing in his grove, and inside it a princess small enough to rest in his two hands. She grows into a lady so gentle that five grand suitors are set five impossible tasks and refused without one unkind word, an emperor becomes her friend by letter, and when the moon at last sends its shining procession down for her, she leaves behind a letter and a gift, carried to the summit of the highest mountain in Japan.

Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a farewell in it, but it is the gentlest farewell in any storybook, told with far more moonlight than sorrow. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.

Episode 12 of 12 · The Storybook Season

Where this sits: Part 12 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the princess the moon calls home, told on the night of the full moon, the last tale of the season. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
3:25 The Grove of Green Light
12:51 The Smallest Princess in the World
22:57 The Five Suitors
33:35 The Stone Bowl of the Buddha
40:38 The Jeweled Branch of Horai
51:45 The Robe of the Fire Rat
59:10 The Jewel in the Dragon's Neck
1:06:56 The Swallow's Shell
1:16:22 The Emperor's Letters
1:24:31 The Fifteenth Night of the Eighth Month
1:38:04 The Smoke of the Mountain
1:45:16 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Snow Queen, Andersen's long winter tale of 1844. A troll's mirror shatters into splinters finer than dust, one splinter finds a boy named Kay, and his friend Gerda simply sets out to bring him home. Her road passes roses growing along a roof gutter, a robber girl who lends her own white reindeer, and a wise woman near the top of the world who says the truest thing in the whole story: the girl's own gentle heart is already power enough. The ice palace gives way to patience, not to force, and two friends walk home into summer.

Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is deep ice in it, but the whole story is about the thaw, and nearly every stranger Gerda meets ends up helping her on her way. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.

Episode 11 of 12 · The Storybook Season

Where this sits: Part 11 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the long walk north, and the thaw at the end of it. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
3:32 The Mirror of the Trolls
8:35 The Roses on the Roof Gutter
15:17 The White Sledge
24:56 The River and the Cherry Garden
38:44 The Crow Who Knew a Princess
48:28 The Prince and the Princess
57:38 The Little Robber Girl
1:10:41 The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman
1:21:08 The Word Made of Ice
1:29:59 The Road Home Runs Through Spring
1:36:32 The Roses in Bloom
1:43:19 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.

Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books

A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to The Wizard of Oz, as L. Frank Baum wrote it in 1900. The shoes are silver in the original, the Good Witch of the North leaves a kiss on Dorothy's forehead that keeps her safe on the whole road, the Emerald City hands out green spectacles at its gates, a field of poppies lies deep with sleep, and there is a small quiet country made entirely of china. The road is yellow brick and the pace is a walking pace, all the way there and all the way home.

Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are witches in it, but the ones we walk beside are kind, and the road stays even underfoot the whole way. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.

Episode 10 of 12 · The Storybook Season

Where this sits: Part 10 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the yellow brick road at a bedtime pace. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
2:41 The House on the Gray Prairie
12:05 The Silver Shoes and the Kiss
25:01 The Road of Yellow Brick
38:40 The Man of Tin
49:10 The Cowardly Lion
1:01:40 The Field of Scarlet Poppies
1:12:41 The Emerald City and the Green Spectacles
1:26:03 The Four Faces of Oz
1:38:06 The Golden Cap
1:54:43 The Man Behind the Screen
2:15:07 The China Country and Glinda the Good
2:32:07 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel

🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.