S2E22: The Dirty Shepherdess (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E22: The Dirty Shepherdess (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary After a drastic misunderstanding with her father, a princess makes her way out into the world. Using dirt as a disguise, she finds work as a shepherdess. One day, while revisiting her former splendor, a prince notices her and is immediately smitten. After coming into possession of one of her rings, he has the kingdom searched high and low for its...
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S2E21: The Magic Swan (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E21: The Magic Swan (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary On the advice of an old woman, Peter steals a magic swan, which he uses to get the princess to laugh for the first time in her life. Questions or Comments? Email: Or Book The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang Music "Princess (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward. Free download:
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S2E20: The Little Soldier, Part 5-10 (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E20: The Little Soldier, Part 5-10 (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary The little soldier manages to catch the attention of the royal family and is given an audience. He tells the King and Queen of Ludovine’s promise to marry him and seemingly they agree the promise should be kept, but only if the magic money purse is given to Ludovine. Despite his misgivings, the soldier hands it over. True to their natures,...
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S2E19: The Little Soldier, Part 1-4 (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E19: The Little Soldier, Part 1-4 (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary A soldier returning from war happens upon an old castle. Inside he finds a serpent with the face of a woman. She tells him that her name is Ludovine, her father is the king of the Low Countries, and that she has been waiting for him to rescue her. She instructs him on what to do, and once she is free, tells him to get some rest and meet her with her...
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S2E18: The Golden Blackbird (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E18: The Golden Blackbird (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Poll What’s the best way to present a story written in multiple parts? Summary An ailing lord sends his three sons to seek out the only thing that might cure him, the Golden Blackbird. The elder sons, assuming they will soon enough inherit their fathers riches stop at an inn where they accrue massive debts. The youngest son continues on the journey,...
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S2E17: The Snuff-Box (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E17: The Snuff-Box (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary While traveling the world, a young man discovers a magic snuff-box which can provide its wielder whatsoever he might want. The young man uses it to build a magnificent palace that attracts the attention of the neighbouring king. Impressed by the young man’s power and riches, and desiring peace, the king gives over his daughter in marriage. The queen, however, is...
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S2E16: The Enchanted Ring (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E16: The Enchanted Ring (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary After his father kicks him out due to his brother’s betrayal, Rosamund meets a fairy who gifts him an enchanted ring. This ring has the powers to make its wearer invisible, and to take on the appearance of the prince. Careful not to misuse the power, Rosamund uses the ring to set right his familial relationships and ingratiate himself with the king....
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S2E15: Heart of Ice (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E15: Heart of Ice (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary Young Manikin is cursed due to the foolishness of his parents. The fairy Genesta takes him away to raise him and give him the best advantages she can. Time passes, and after hearing about the Princess Sabella and seeing her portrait, he decides to join the ranks of prince's and knights questing to the top of the Ice Mountain to win her hand. Along the way he has many...
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S2E14: The Three Little Pigs (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E14: The Three Little Pigs (Green Fairy Book) **Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary The Three Little Pigs (Brownie, Whitey, and Blacky in this version) each choose a house for their mother to build them. Brownie chooses one of mud, Whitey one of cabbages, and Blacky on of bricks. When the sly fox their mother warned them about decides to visit their new homes only one is able to stand against him. Points to Ponder What version(s) of...
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S2E13: Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine (Green Fairy Book)
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S2E13: Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine (Green Fairy Book) Happy one year anniversary to this podcast 🎉 thank you for listening! As always, please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Summary The fairy of the Beech Wood plays matchmaker between Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine as only a fairy can. Questions or Comments? Email: Or Book The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang Music "Princess...
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**Please use your own judgement before sharing these stories with children. Although I do my best to keep the language friendly, the content may not be everyone’s cup of tea.
Summary
A King in deep mourning over his wife’s passing meets a grieving widow and the two marry.
The new queen has a daughter, Turritella, who is ill tempered and ugly. She is the polar opposite of the king’s daughter Fiordelisa.
When the king announces it is time for the princesses to marry, his wife insists that her daughter should be first. When a suitor arrives, she goes to all lengths to be sure Turritella should be presented in splendor while Fiordelisa would not.
Nevertheless, the suitor, King Charming, is immediately taken with Fiordelisa.
The Queen and her daughter have redouble their efforts and have her locked in a tower for the remainder of his visit. They then trick King Charming into proposing to Turretella.
The newly engaged couple leave to be married at the castle of the fairy Mazilla, Turritella’s godmother. It is there that King Charming learns the truth, and refusing to marry Turritella, is turned into a blue bird.
Furious with this outcome, the queen and Turritella again turn their attention to making Fiordelisa’s life miserable.
Still trapped in the tower, Fiordelisa laments her sorry lot.
One day, there is a response to her lamentations and discovers a bluebird outside of her window.
In time she learns this is King Charming and he tells her all that has transpired. The two spend many hours in each others company. They talk throughout the night, and during the day the bluebird king flies to his palace to retrieve beautiful gifts for Fiordelisa.
Again the Queen and Turritella turn their attention to Fiordelisa, and discover her collection of jewels. Determined to find their source, the queen sets a maid to spy on the princess, which almost leads to the bluebird’s demise.
Fortunately, King Charming’s friend, the Enchanter, finds him at just the right moment and restores him to health, and eventually, through negotiation with Mazilla, to his human form.
Fiordelisa, meanwhile, inherits her father’s kingdom. The new queen then sets out to find her true love. With the help of a kind fairy and her own wits she is reunited with King Charming, and they live happily ever after!
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Book
The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Music
"Princess (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward.
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