• The Three Little Men in the Woods
    Mar 21 2021

    Belching up toads, paper dresses, beheadings and murder, this story has them all. I love this Grimm fairytale from the Philip Pullman collection, and I hope you do too?

    This is the last episode in Season Three, so please write me a review and remember, storytelling is thirsty work!

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    19 mins
  • The Old House
    Mar 13 2021

    An old man in velvet pantaloons is befriended by a little boy with a toy soldier, however the soldier is NOT happy about this, has a tantrum and finds himself lost in the cracks and buried in an open grave, only to be found years later.

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    18 mins
  • The Marriage of Mrs. Reynard
    Feb 23 2021

    Reynard the Fox is a bit tricky and tricks his wife that he's dead to see if she'll marry again ... never a good plan.

     

     

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    10 mins
  • Tamlane
    Feb 13 2021

    Childhood sweethearts Tamlane and Janet were all set until he 'disappeared' before their wedding day. He was off with the fairies (that's what you get for riding your horse 'widershins' around the hill), but it's OK, because she rescues him, by knocking him off his horse and holding on really tight while he changes into lots of things, then she chucks him in a pond. Perfect love story on so many levels. 

    The actual Scottish story is as deep and dark and twisty as you like with green kirtles being lifted and babies born of fairy fathers etc, but this version is the one from Joseph Jacobs 'English Fairy Tales', so apologies to all my Scottish friends. 

    As usual I improvised the melody over the verse, in this instance it was the Elfin Queen singing.  If you want to listen to a classic rendition of this story in song, have a listen to Fairport Convention's  Tam Lin. 

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    9 mins
  • The Dog and the Sparrow
    Feb 2 2021

    A very clever and vengeful sparrow gets his own back after his buddy the dog comes a cropper. Many things get chopped with an axe by accident and many other things get pecked out ... corks and eyes mostly. The moral? Please feed your dogs yummy things ... and don't underestimate a sparrow! 

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    11 mins
  • The Blinded Giant
    Jan 22 2021

    A very short story about a boy called Jack, a bone bread eating giant and his favourite dog ... shame about the dog.

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    5 mins
  • The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
    Jan 5 2021

    A 'lucky' boy escapes death is helped by two old ladies (because he was so polite and good looking) is very courageous ... and also a bit of a know it all.

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    18 mins
  • Snowdrop
    Dec 19 2020

    So there's a narcissistic cannibalistic witch Queen, a Prince who thinks it would be cool to have a pretty dead girl in a glass coffin for a trophy and 7 little people who, while kind at heart, should get an education on domestic labor stereotypes. Nothing to see here.

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    21 mins