Wise Crone Cottage Podcast
Welcome to the Wise Crone Cottage podcast with storyteller, Kathy Shimpock. Here we'll meet the crone and uncover her wisdom as found, in fairy tales, folktales and myths. New episodes are released each month. All rights reserved.
Wise Crone Cottage Podcast
Episode 1 - The Old Woman and the Wicked Oni
On this episode, Kathy discusses the creation of the Wise Crone Cottage podcast and the importance of folktales today. She'll tell you a Japanese story, "The Old Woman and the Wicked Oni." It's a story that explores the concept of the "Other." We'll see how the wise old woman becomes an unlikely hero, facing her opponents bravely and finding unexpected solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems. All rights reserved.
Story: From several variants of the "Old Woman and the Wicked Oni." Japanese folktale.
Cover Image: Edmund Dulac from the book The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910).
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 2019, Kathy Shimpock.
For more crone tales, visit the "Wise Crone Cottage in the Woods" (http://www.wisecronecottage.com).