The Seven Ravens 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛👧

About this episode

This episode features an adaptation of the lesser-known fairy tale 'The Seven Ravens', focusing on themes of family and the consequences of wishes.

For this month’s episode, we have an adaptation of a classic, but less well known, fairy tale called “The Seven Ravens”. A version can be found in Grimm’s Fairy Tales, but there are many variants from across the world. Seven brothers are transformed into ravens when their father curses them for laziness, and their youngest sister sets off on a quest to find and rescue them. It offers a moral to “be careful what you wish for” (a moral we often explore on the podcast), but it also speaks ...

People in this episode

Host: Claire Krendl Gilbert

Topics covered

• fairy tales
• family
• morals
• sibling relationships
• adventure

Keywords

• fairy tale
• ravens
• curse
• sister
• quest
• morals
• Grimm

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Seven Ravens, Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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