Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid.
52 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 108 ratingsThis is a bi-monthly podcast featuring songs and stories from some lesser known fairy tales and folk stories. Stories which lean toward the grisly and unnerving, stories which might help us deal with the ogres and wicked step mothers in our own lives.
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Episodes
Binnorie
March 01, 2018 05:00 - 10 minutes - 11.6 MBA very dark story about jealously, murder and a magical instrument being made out of the corpse! For me the song came first, this version I'm singing is different to any other I've come across, although this is a great link for some backstory: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-2-sisters-and-1-murder-inspired-500-songs I learned the version I'm singing from an old cassette tape recording from a library archive when I was researching women and folk songs 30 years ago. It has alway...
Ashenputtel
February 15, 2018 16:18 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBA darker version of the well known Cinderella story was recorded by the German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century. The tale is called "Aschenputtel". This version is much more intense than most others in that Cinderella's father did not die and the stepsisters mutilate their feet to fit in the golden slipper. There is no fairy godmother, but help instead comes from a wishing tree that the heroine planted on her mother's grave. The stepsisters suffer a terrible punishment fo...