Episode 12: "Three Spinning Women"

Wise Crone Cottage Podcast

English - July 29, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 11: "Baba Yaga & The Kitchen Witch"

Next Episode: "The Golden Key" (S2, #1)

In this episode, the Storyteller Kathy Shimpock explores stories of spinning, as the wise crone spins the world - to help and guide 7 generations forward and 7 generations back. We'll focus on Native American mythology and compare those stories to the Grimm versions of the "Three Spinning Women."

Story: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Die drei Spinnerinnen, Kinder- und Hausmarchen (Children's and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales), 7th ed. (Berlin, 1857), no. 14.
Cover illustration: Arthur Rackham for "The Three Spinners," from Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, 1917.
Music: The Snow Queen Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Copyright 2020 Kathy Shimpock. All rights reserved.

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