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Too stressed to sleep? Perhaps a weird scandalous fairytale, some calm narration, and 96 forbidden kisses will help? This is a soft-spoken narration of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale "The Swineherd." This calm sleep story is is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale bedtime story! How many kisses is too many? 96? The Scandal! Join me as I softly read this classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Swineherd." Look. It's weird. Of course.“He will have a hundred kisses from the Princess!” said the lady who had been to ask.“I think he is not in his right senses!” said the Princess, and walked on, but when she had gone a little way, she stopped again. “One must encourage art,” said she, “I am the Emperor's daughter. Tell him he shall, as on yesterday, have ten kisses from me, and may take the rest from the ladies of the court.”“Oh—but we should not like that at all!” said they. “What are you muttering?” asked the Princess. “If I can kiss him, surely you can. Remember that you owe everything to me.” So the ladies were obliged to go to him again.“A hundred kisses from the Princess,” said he, “or else let everyone keep his own!”“Stand round!” said she; and all the ladies stood round her whilst the kissing was going on.“What can be the reason for such a crowd close by the pigsty?” said the Emperor, who happened just then to step out on the balcony; he rubbed his eyes, and put on his spectacles. “They are the ladies of the court; I must go down and see what they are about!” So he pulled up his slippers at the heel, for he had trodden them down.As soon as he had got into the court-yard, he moved very softly, and the ladies were so much engrossed with counting the kisses, that all might go on fairly, that they did not perceive the Emperor. He rose on his tiptoes..."Teller of the Tales, Plaint, Fairytale Waltz" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This tale, "The Swineherd," is by Hans Christian Andersen, and is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, my animated illustrations, an animated version of Heinrich Lefler's Swineherd illustration, and Creative Commons music (above).This episode originaly released on YouTube on May 31, 2022.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I cried. I wept. I LOVED this fairytale! Prepare to be swept away in this achingly heartbreaking tale of a little ancient tree who found her voice very late in long life. Let's emote with a tree!Tonight's tale is one of late-blooming. Of singing, sadness, and sorrow all in the body of one tree from the beginning of the world. It's also a heartbreakingly beautiful love story, between the North Wind and the Littlest Tree. One that spans centuries, and songs and lifetimes. This tale, from the Green Forest Fairy Book: "The Little Tree that Never Grew Up," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's sweet fairytale story!"Nightdreams, Magic Forest" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This tale is from a compendium of fairy tales, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above).This episode originally released on YouTube on January 22, 2021.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To much buzzing in your skull to sleep?! Do you ever wonder what happens during a New Moon? Join me for tonight's travails through the squelchiest, mossiest, most dangerous of bogs! We'll encounter witches, Things, boggles and other creatures of the night as we follow the Moon herself as she tries to make the world a bit safer. This tale, "The Buried Moon," is from a collection of English fairy tales and is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale!Voice Over Editing ► ADAM NATOR "Magic Forest, Floating Cities" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This tale is from a compendium of English Fairy Tales, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above).This episode originally released on YouTube on September 15, 2020.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Got too much on your mind? Need a familiar story to just breathe to? Well I'm not sure this is the fairy tale for that, but hey, we're reading it together! Join me for tonight's Sleeping Beauty's Origin Story of sorts - we travel back to Giambattista Basile's tale of "Sun, Moon, and Talia" which is creepy in it's old creepy old man king way. Of course. Why would we expect anything else? Ah well. There is also two little fairy babies (which I'm pretty sure where ah... something else in the original) and a jealous queen who makes her husband and sun eat these children (kinda) after cooking them into so many dishes. A whole lot happens, and while it's not a traditional "Happily Ever After" (or maybe it is because this is a traditional tale?) it's interesting for sure! NOT a Disney Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty happily ever after. This tale, Giambattista Basile's "Sun, Moon, and Talia" is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale storytelling!"Magic Forest, Ascending the Vale"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This tale is from a compendium of tales collected by the Giambattista Basile, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above).#Animation #Fairytale # GiambattistaBasile #ASMR #asmrreading #asmrstorytelling #asmrfairytale #sunmoonandtalia#disney #sleepingbeautyThis episode originally released on YouTube November 10, 2020. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To much buzzing in your skull to sleep?! Let's get Grimm! Join me for tonight's classic yet seemingly hopeless task of spinning straw into gold! We follow one woman (whose father boasts about her ability to spin straw into gold to the king, who simply MUST "employ" this woman right away to fill his treasury! Of course... she has no such ability. Enter in the mischievous Rumpelstiltskin, always ready to make a bargain! This tale, the Brothers Grimms' "Rumpelstiltskin," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairy tale!"Ascending the Vale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This tale is from a compendium of tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above).#Animation #Fairytale #Grimm #ASMR #fairytales #asmrreading #asmrsleepThis episode originally released on YouTube on 8/20/2020.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.