373: European Fairy Tales: The Elements (part...

🕷️Spiders don't have tails, but this one has tales. Anansi is one of the most famous folklore tricksters in the world, but we'll see that behind every great trickster...is likely a trail of broken and/or angry people who want to get even.😈 The Creature: Tsuchinoko People are cr ...  عرض المزيد

🔱It's Poseidon's turn.On the podcast. Not to be king of the gods. He's actually totally not mad that his little brother is king. Because Zeus isn't the king of him. But Poseidon does do everything his brother says. Not because Zeus told him to, though. He just planned to do it a ...  عرض المزيد

Fantasy doesn’t always stay fiction. Sometimes it creeps into reality, and as we grow older those childhood fairy tales gain a whole new meaning. First, Sapphire reads a magical tale about a baker with a dark, delectable secret. Next, join Markeia as she follows a young occultist ...  عرض المزيد

An old German fairy tale complete with a prince, a maiden, an evil stepmother and of course, a fairy. 

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Today's story is brought to you by Dan Wendelin of the Stories for Wonderful Children Podcast. It's an adaptation of a classic fairy tale which you might recognize, but this time with an added twist. Draw us a picture of what you think any of the characters in this story look lik ...  عرض المزيد

Hans Christian Anderson's "the Little Mermaid" was the inspiration for the Disney Movie, which is markedly different from Anderson's version. Disney's version creates many more characters and adds funny moments, then gives it the fairy tale wedding ending in which the little merm ...  عرض المزيد