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Welcome to my 13 Nights of Halloween, where I will share frightening folktales guaranteed to scare the bejeebers out of you. Tonight’s story is “The Baba Yaga” which comes from William Ralston’s 1873 collection of Russian Folk-Tales.
Baba Yaga is a delightfully nasty witch who never apologizes and likes to eat up little girls and boys who are too stupid to esca...
This is the second of my 13 Nights of Halloween, and tonight you will hear “The Ghost Sailor,” a folktale that comes from the Mashpee people of Cape Cod.
This is my own retelling, and the story teaches us that you can’t put a price on the safety of your children.
PREPARE YOURSELVES! And please enjoy “The Ghost Sailor”
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Welcome to my 13 Nights of Halloween, where I will share frightening folktales guaranteed to scare the bejeebers out of you. These are stories so scary that most grownups won’t share them with children any more. But I think we’ve gone soft! Bring back the screams, the peril, the ghastly, the ghoulish. Kids from the past loved feeling their hair stand on end, and so do kids to...
This evening’s Fireside Fairy Tale is “Cap O’ Rushes,” a tale printed in English Fairy Tales, which was a collection made by Joseph Jacobs in 1890. He gave the author as “Anonymous,” which isn’t totally correct. The authors are the common people of England.
Cap O’ Rushes is interesting because it combines elements of King Lear with the structure of a classic Ci...
I adored Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons as a kid. I had to respect Wile E. Coyote for never giving up, no matter how many times he was smashed, bashed, crashed, blown to smithereens, or launched in the air only to fall down into that canyon . . . AGAIN.
I was very happy to finally get the chance to see Coyote Vs. Acme. I hoped I would laugh . . . but ended up crying!