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

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

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  • The Wizard of Oz · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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

    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.

    3 hr 1 min
  • Mulan · The Original Ballad · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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

    A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to the Ballad of Mulan, the short poem from the Northern Wei dynasty that began the whole legend, told long and slow. A daughter at her loom hears the army lists calling her father's name, so she buys a horse at one market, a saddle at another, a bridle at a third, a long whip at the fourth, and rides north in his place. Twelve years she serves, and her comrades never know. When the emperor offers her any reward she can name, she asks only for a swift horse home, and the ballad closes with its famous gentle riddle, two hares running side by side through the grass.

    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 war at the far edges of it, but it stays at the edges; the story keeps its eyes on the loom, the river, the mountain road, and the long ride home. 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 9 of 12 · The Storybook Season

    Where this sits: Part 9 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 daughter who rode twelve years in her father's place. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

    Chapters:
    0:00 Welcome
    3:15 The Loom That Faced the Door
    8:57 Twelve Scrolls of Paper
    15:54 The Four Markets
    26:22 The Yellow River Nights
    34:53 The Horses of the Black Mountain
    41:46 Ten Thousand Miles Like Flying
    50:37 Twelve Winters, Twelve Springs
    58:29 The Hall of Light
    1:04:56 The Road Home
    1:12:39 The Dress by the Window
    1:20:18 The Two Hares
    1:27:56 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.

    3 hr 1 min
  • Achilles Hidden in a Dress Before Troy · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Story

    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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    A slow, calm 3 hour Greek mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Everyone knows the ten years at Troy. Tonight is the story just before it, the half forgotten season when the war was still only a rumor crossing the water. A king plows his own field with salt to escape an oath he invented himself, and loses the one contest of wits he ever plainly lost. A goddess hides her son, the greatest warrior the world will ever know, in the last place anyone would think to look, among a king's daughters, in a borrowed dress. A peddler comes ashore with silks and a single spear, and one horn note undoes all the hiding in a heartbeat. And at the end, in one small bay, a thousand ships gather and wait for nothing in the world but a wind.

    This is Part 2 of 2. If you have not yet heard how Odysseus himself came to be, that story, The Making of Odysseus, is on this channel too.

    Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. A war is coming for these men, but it stays far off all night, on the far side of the sea. Not one sword is raised in this telling. There are only farewells, disguises, clever men being clever, and ships gathering on quiet water. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.

    A Sleeping Almanac special · Part 2 of 2 · The full Odyssey season continues on this channel

    Chapters (real times, computed from the build audio, see status note above)
    0:00 Welcome
    7:07 Chapter One: The Sail with No Business There
    16:42 Chapter Two: The Warning of Twenty Years
    23:56 Chapter Three: The King Who Sowed Salt
    34:33 Chapter Four: The Leaving of Ithaca
    45:28 Chapter Five: The Boy with Two Fates
    53:40 Chapter Six: The Island of Hidden Things
    1:01:47 Chapter Seven: The Peddler at the Door
    1:11:16 Chapter Eight: The Horn and the Spear
    1:21:03 Chapter Nine: The Bay of a Thousand Fires
    1:29:52 Chapter Ten: The Counting of the Ships
    1:44:55 Chapter Eleven: The Last Night at Aulis
    1:50:18 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sails Going Out at Dawn

    🕯 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

    This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. Drawn from Homer's Iliad, including the Catalogue of Ships, Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Hyginus' Fabulae, and the summary of the lost Cypria. These are retellings. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night.

    New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET.

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

    This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

    Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1sADE-DYKg
    New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET.

    #SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus

    3 hr 1 min
  • Robin Hood · The Original Legend · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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 storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Robin Hood, from the oldest ballads and the Gest of Robyn Hode, the greenwood as it always was. A tall stranger met on a narrow bridge with a quarterstaff, a friar who carries an outlaw across a river and back again, a golden arrow won in plain sight, a poor knight lent four hundred pounds and his dignity with it, and a king who comes to the greenwood to see for himself. Sherwood at dusk is one of the calmest places any story has ever kept.

    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 arrows in it, but they are aimed only at willow wands and targets, and nobody in the greenwood goes to sleep hungry or afraid. 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 8 of 12 · The Storybook Season

    Where this sits: Part 8 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 greenwood and its gentleman outlaw. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

    Chapters:
    0:00 Welcome
    2:24 The Greenwood
    9:59 The Stranger on the Bridge
    18:54 The Miller's Son and the Man in Scarlet
    26:37 The Knight at Dinner
    34:31 Four Hundred Pounds
    44:04 The Friar at the River
    51:15 The Golden Arrow
    56:20 The Splitting of the Wand
    1:03:15 The King Comes to the Greenwood
    1:09:35 Lincoln Green
    1:16:54 The Turning of the Year
    1:25:49 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.

    3 hr 1 min
  • Sleeping Beauty · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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

    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 Sleeping Beauty the old way, from Perrault and from the Grimms' Briar Rose. A wish granted by the water, gifts spoken over a golden cradle, one spindle left in a high tower room, and then the enchantment the tale is named for: the whole castle falls asleep together, the cooks and the horses and the doves and the fire on the hearth, and a hedge of briars rises to guard the quiet. A hundred years pass in that stillness, and when the time is finally right, the hedge blooms and opens all by itself.

    Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The spindle does its small work early, and after that the entire story is one long, protected sleep, which is rather the point. 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 7 of 12 · The Storybook Season

    Where this sits: Part 7 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 castle that slept for a hundred years. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

    Chapters:
    0:00 Welcome
    2:35 The Wish by the Water
    7:57 The Feast of the Golden Plates
    15:07 The Gifts of the Wise Women
    22:00 The Thirteenth Wish, and the Twelfth
    27:03 The Kingdom Without Spindles
    33:34 The Tower Room
    40:57 The Castle Falls Asleep
    50:47 The Hedge of Briars
    59:15 A Hundred Years of Quiet
    1:06:52 The Hedge in Bloom
    1:16:19 The Waking House
    1:28:20 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.

    3 hr 1 min
  • Welcome to Season Four · The Odyssey · Greek Mythology Sleep Stories

    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.

    The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to.

    The Sleeping Almanac is three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off. No music that swells, no sudden voices, no reason to open your eyes. Just one calm voice and a story old enough that people have been falling asleep to it for three thousand years.

    Four seasons so far. Norse gods. Egyptian nights. Old fairy tales retold long and slow. And Season Four, the Odyssey, told across twelve nights from the wrong shore to a bed carved from a living olive tree.

    New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night.

    Everything we make: gildenmyth.com

    🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
    1 min
  • Alice in Wonderland · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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

    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 Alice in Wonderland, as Lewis Carroll first told it in 1865. A golden afternoon on a riverbank, a white rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch inside it, a fall so long and slow it feels like floating, and a tea table where the dormouse sleeps peacefully through everything. The whole adventure is a dream from its first page to its last, which makes it the safest adventure there is, and at the end the dreamer simply wakes on the same warm bank, with her head in her sister's lap.

    Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. It is all a dream on a riverbank, and the story knows it, so nothing in it can follow you anywhere except into sleep. 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 6 of 12 · The Storybook Season

    Where this sits: Part 6 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, a dream on a riverbank. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

    Chapters:
    0:00 Welcome
    2:50 A Golden Afternoon, and a White Rabbit with a Watch
    9:46 The Little Golden Key
    18:52 The Pool of Tears and the Caucus Race
    35:27 The Rabbit Sends in Little Bill
    48:35 Advice from a Caterpillar
    1:01:08 Pepper, a Pig, and a Grin Without a Cat
    1:16:52 The Maddest Tea Party in All the World
    1:33:24 Painting the Roses Red
    1:49:44 The Mock Turtle's Story
    2:06:12 The Lobster Quadrille, and Who Stole the Tarts
    2:25:41 Alice's Evidence, and a Pack of Cards
    2:37:59 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.

    3 hr 1 min
  • Peter Pan · The Original Story · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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

    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 Peter Pan, as J. M. Barrie wrote him in 1911. A nursery at number fourteen, a large gentle dog for a nurse, a boy who comes back for his lost shadow, and directions no map has ever improved: second star to the right, and straight on till morning. There are mermaids in a lagoon, a patient Never bird on her floating nest, a little house built around a sleeping girl, and a window kept open at the end, because some windows always are.

    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 pirate in it, but tonight he is more pocket watch than menace, and the nursery window stays open the whole time. 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 5 of 12 · The Storybook Season

    Where this sits: Part 5 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 boy who would not grow up. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

    Chapters:
    0:00 Welcome
    2:39 The Nursery at Number Fourteen
    16:41 The Boy Who Came for His Shadow
    37:11 Second Star to the Right
    46:57 The Island That Woke
    59:45 The Little House
    1:09:53 The Home Under the Ground
    1:20:30 The Mermaids' Lagoon
    1:33:15 The Never Bird
    1:40:20 Wendy's Story
    1:48:02 The Gentleman and the Clock
    1:57:20 The Window Left Open
    2:04:53 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.

    3 hr 1 min
  • Cinderella · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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 Cinderella, exactly as Charles Perrault first set it down in 1697. A pumpkin hollowed out by a godmother's hand, six mice turned to six grey horses, a whiskered rat for a coachman, six lizards for footmen, and not one ball but two. The slipper is glass, it fits in front of everyone, and the story ends not in punishment but in forgiveness, with places found at court for both sisters.

    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 unkind sisters in it, but the unkindness stays quiet, and the ending forgives them, which is how Perrault himself chose to close it. 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 4 of 12 · The Storybook Season

    Where this sits: Part 4 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 slipper of glass and the kindness at the end. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

    Chapters:
    0:00 Welcome
    3:02 The House with the Cold Hearths
    8:43 Cinders, and the Two Names
    15:29 An Invitation Sealed in Red Wax
    23:16 Dressing the Sisters
    29:59 The Godmother in the Garden
    36:36 Six Mice, Three Rats, and Six Lizards
    46:22 The First Ball
    55:16 The Day Between
    1:04:30 The Stroke of Twelve
    1:11:42 The Slipper Tried Through the City
    1:16:58 Forgiveness, and Two Places at Court
    1:22:57 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.

    3 hr 1 min
  • The Little Mermaid · The Original Fairy Tale · 3 Hour Sleep Story to Fall Asleep

    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

    A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller turns to Hans Christian Andersen's little mermaid, the original telling of 1837. Far out where the water is blue as the bluest cornflower, the sea king's youngest daughter tends a garden shaped like the sun and listens to her grandmother's stories of the world above. Merfolk live three hundred years, ships drift overhead like slow clouds, and on her fifteenth birthday she rises through the quiet water to see the lights for herself. It is a tale of longing told gently, and it ends the way Andersen ended it, among the daughters of the air, with patience and quiet hope.

    Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The old tale carries sorrow in it, but we keep to its gentlest current, and no one is lost in the telling. 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 3 of 12 · The Storybook Season

    Where this sits: Part 3 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 sea's youngest daughter. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.

    Chapters:
    0:00 Welcome
    3:00 Far Out, Where the Water Is Blue
    9:23 Six Small Gardens
    15:13 Stories of the World Above
    21:15 Five Sisters, Five Evenings
    29:50 The Night She Rose
    35:39 The Storm, and the Shore
    44:33 Three Hundred Years
    52:30 The House Beyond the Whirlpools
    1:01:26 Two White Feet
    1:09:32 The Bride From the Temple
    1:17:57 The Daughters of the Air
    1:23:34 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.

    3 hr 1 min

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

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Three hour sleep stories for adults, from the fairy tales and myths you already know. Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Homer's Odyssey, and the old gods of the North and of Egypt, each retold in slow, calm narration made to be listened to as you fall asleep.