In this episode, the storyteller, Kathy Shimpock, will be reading “Stribor’s Forest.” It’s a Croation literary tale written by Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic. It is a tale longer than most, so grab some tea and your journal before we begin.  After ...

In this episode, the storyteller, Kathy Shimpock, will explore elder abuse, as seen in stories, folklore and actual life.  We'll start our exploration with a practice found in Japanese stories called ubasute or "abandoning the old woman."&...

In this episode, the storyteller, Kathy Shimpock, will explore the Chinese folktale, “The Old Woman and the Tiger.”  The story is retold by Mary Hemingway who grew up in northern China.  In this story, we’ll see a different side of th...

In this episode, the storyteller, Kathy Shimpock explores the Grimm tale “Frau Trude.”   It’s a short didactic story that allows for many surprising interpretations. Whether she be a witch or a crone, there’s a lot of cackling and cracklin...

In this episode the Storyteller Kathy Shimpock explores the relationship of the crone within the maiden, mother, and crone trilogy.  She tells the Greek myth of "Demeter and Persephone" and shares a lesser known variation in which Hecate p...