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    Singing Bones

    Singing Bones is a podcast that looks at the origin of fairy tales, the bare bones of stories. Follow the your favourite tales from their beginnings, discover new tales you’ve never heard, and re-discover stories you thought you knew.

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    Bluebeard May 12, 2016
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    Illustration by Winslow Hollow

    Illustration by Winslow Hollow

    "Be bold, be bold, but not too bold."

    Bluebeard is one of the most gruesome and dark stories of the fairy tale cannon. Before true crime or horror stories people told the story of the serial killer with the un-naturally blue beard, and the many wives he murdered.

    Before we had the term serial killer we called repeat killers Bluebeards', and the real men from history who inspired the tale are considered some of the most vicious in history. In this episode we look at Bluebeard and it's cousin stories of Mr. Fox, and The Devil Who Married Three sisters, and examine the histories of the three men thought to have inspired the story. One a king of France, another a King of England, and Barron who was a companion to Joan of Arc.

    Harp music by OMNIA

    Other music from the Opera "Bluebeard's Castle" by Béla Bartók

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    The Brothers Grimm and Sisters Wild Apr 22, 2016
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    The statue of the brothers in Kassel

    The statue of the brothers in Kassel

    The Brother's Grimm are synonyms with fairy tales. Yet most people do not know how they collected their tales, or more importantly who they collected them from.

    Born in a time of war and shifting borders and fearing a loss of national identity the brothers sought to record all fairy tales in German. Their sources were mostly young women, sisters who shared the Grimm's passion for folktales and yet they were not credited as the brothers were, Matt Damon did not play them in a movie.

    This week we are looking at the lives of The Brothers Grimm and the women who they collected their stories from. For in order to understand the history of fairy tales, we must understand the tale tellers.

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    The Singing Bone Mar 23, 2016
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    Paper cut illustration by Clare Testoni

    Paper cut illustration by Clare Testoni

    The Singing Bone is one of the oldest folk tales and is often considered a bridging point between folk tales and ghost stories. With origins going back 2200 years to China and Africa it continues to live in folk and country songs. Telling the sad tale of brothers and sisters killing each other, and only the dead siblings enchanted bones telling the truth of their fate.

    Read and listen to the tales here Singing Bones Gallery
    The Sleeping Beauty Mar 10, 2016
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    Illustration by Jennie Harbour

    Illustration by Jennie Harbour

    Sleeping Beauty is one of the darkest and most erotically charged tales and this weeks episode is not suitable for those that simply want to hear the picture book story. From origins in Icelandic and French folklore through to the forgotten second act of Perrault and Basile's versions of Sleeping Beauty you have to be brave to court the princess asleep in the woods. It's a dark and thorny path.

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    Jack and The Beanstalk Feb 24, 2016
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    Giants are our fears and foes made large, Jack and The Beanstalk comes from a history of the small against the strong. It is what remains of a lost tradition of boys own adventure tales. In this episode we follow our fears from Goliath, to Norwegian independence, through to British colonialism and freudian psychoanalysis.

    Read more about Jeffrey Jay Fowler and his upcoming work.

    Music by Dave Depper and Will Bangs

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    Snow White Feb 11, 2016
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    Illustration by Jennie Harbour for My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales , 1921

    Illustration by Jennie Harbour for My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales, 1921

    Snow White is one of the best known tales, how and why did it become so? In Episode three we look at poisoned Baronesses, Persephone and Hades, pantomime, and early cinema. Looking at the dark story of jealousy and blossoming beauty.

    Music for this episode by the wonderful Musk Ox.

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    Snow White silent film (1916)

    The Pied Piper Jan 28, 2016
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    In episode two we look into the only fairytale that does not start 'once upon a time' but rather 'in 1284'. The mystery of what happened to the children of Hamlin has fascinated Johann Goethe, Robert Browning, and troubled the minds of historians for hundreds of years. We look at the historical background of The Pied Piper of Hamlin and how a true event became bound up with a tale of rats, pipers, and magic mountains to be the tale we know today.

    Henry Marsh, wood engraving, f rom the Riverside Magazine for Young People, Volume II, January 1868

    Henry Marsh, wood engraving, from the Riverside Magazine for Young People, Volume II, January 1868

    Music by Kevin Kastning and Carl Clements, Lisa Germano, Miriam Fried (violin) Jonathan Biss (piano)

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    Beauty and The Beast Jan 18, 2016
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    Illustration by  John Batten for European Folk and Fairy Tales,  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916

    Illustration by John Batten for European Folk and Fairy Tales, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916

    In our first episode I unlock the history of Beauty and The Beast, from Roman myth through to modern tale the Animal Bridegroom has fascinated and repulsed us for over a thousand years. For who could ever love a beast?....

    Music from the album Woodfall by Musk Ox

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