Grownups Read Princess Stories

79 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -

Grownups Read Princess Stories is the podcast that has grownups from around the world read Fair Tales and true history stories of Princesses.
Each episode is a different grownup reading in their own unique voice.

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The Boy and the Trolls

May 03, 2022 13:00 - 37 minutes - 68.8 MB

The Boy and the Trolls was written by Walter Stenstrom. Born ( 1881 ) in Malilla, he became an author, comedy writer, and lecturer. Walters parents were the pharmacist Axel Fabian Stenström and Ingeborg Olivia Abrahamsson. He graduated in 1900 and in 1904 became a pharmacology candidate. He was active as a theater man and managing director of Skådebanan , but also wrote some fairy tale plays. Other children tales include 'The Princess who wouldn't eat porridge' and 'The gingerbread men...

The Prince Without a Shadow

April 28, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes - 62.1 MB

The Prince Without a Shadow was written by Jeanna Oterdahl (1897-1965) Jeanna Oterdahl was the daughter of Captain Philip Oterdahl and Eva Frögren. She was the eldest of five siblings. After graduating as a teacher in Stockholm in 1901, Oterdahl was employed at Mathilda Hall's school in Gothenburg (where she herself was a student) but at the same time devoted herself to extensive writing. In the 1920s, she reduced her teaching hours and focused on writing. Several of her morning rallies were...

The Wedding of Mrs. Fox

July 05, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MB

"The Wedding of Mrs. Fox" (German: Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin) is two German fairy tales collected under the same title by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales as number 38. It was included in all editions, and is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 65, 1350, 1352*, and 1510. The second version of the tale was told to the Grimms by Ludovico Brentano Jordis, who also wrote down "The Lion and the Frog" for the brothers.

Hansel and Gretel

June 07, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 60.9 MB

"Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimm's Fairy Tales. Hansel and Gretel are a brother and sister abandoned in a forest, where they fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread, cake, and pastries. Read is the last Brothers Grimm version put to paper. This episode includes some history on how the tale was written.

The Maiden Without Hands

May 27, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutes - 39.8 MB

The Maiden Without Hands comes from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, ( Brothers Grimm ) "Das Mädchen ohne Hände," Kinder- und Hausmärchen, gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm [Children's and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales], 7th edition, vol. 1 (Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1857), no. 31, pp. 162-68. A shorter, simpler version of this tale was included in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812). The tale was expanded and revised for the second edition (1819).

The Twelve Brothers

May 21, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutes - 42.5 MB

"The Twelve Brothers" (German: Die zwölf Brüder) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 9). Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book. It is of Aarne-Thompson type 451 ("The Brothers Who Were Turned into Birds"), which is commonly found throughout Europe. Other variants of the Aarne-Thompson type include The Six Swans, The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The Wild Swans, The Seven Ravens, and The Magic Swan Geese. The tale wa...

The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse

May 18, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutes - 22 MB

The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse (German: Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft) is a tale written by the Brothers Grimm. A shorter version of the tale was included in the Brothers Grimm's manuscript collection of 1808, and published in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812. Their version is based upon an oral tradition communicated by Gretchen Wild (1787–1819) in Kassel.[2]

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