In these very dark days, when the world has gone awry, a story comes out of the darkness. In this episode, we're entering a haunting tale with storyteller, Kathy Shimpock. It is a dire tale rarely told to children. Over time, the story grew even darker, more dire and its message corrupted. It is the corruption of that message, that we'll explore. And so, before we can get to the hope, and before we can get to the light, we must first enter the secret chamber of Bluebeard! Sadly, it’s a place we are all too familiar with.
Stories: "Bluebeard" ("La Barbe Bleue") by Charles Perrault included in Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe (Stories of Tales of Past Times), 1697. "Mr. Fox" by Joseph Jacobs included in English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
Cover illustration: "Mr Fox" collage image from portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh.
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 2022 Kathy Shimpock.
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