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The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy TaleShow Notes
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it. Subscribing on YouTube helps the show grow, even if you only listen here: youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac The Sleeping Almanac is also a shelf of books, bedtime stories to read and mythology coloring books: gildenmyth.com/books A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Sleeping Beauty the old way, from Perrault and from the Grimms' Briar Rose. A wish granted by the water, gifts spoken over a golden cradle, one spindle left in a high tower room, and then the enchantment the tale is named for: the whole castle falls asleep together, the cooks and the horses and the doves and the fire on the hearth, and a hedge of briars rises to guard the quiet. A hundred years pass in that stillness, and when the time is finally right, the hedge blooms and opens all by itself. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The spindle does its small work early, and after that the entire story is one long, protected sleep, which is rather the point. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. Episode 7 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 7 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the castle that slept for a hundred years. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 2:35 The Wish by the Water 7:57 The Feast of the Golden Plates 15:07 The Gifts of the Wise Women 22:00 The Thirteenth Wish, and the Twelfth 27:03 The Kingdom Without Spindles 33:34 The Tower Room 40:57 The Castle Falls Asleep 50:47 The Hedge of Briars 59:15 A Hundred Years of Quiet 1:06:52 The Hedge in Bloom 1:16:19 The Waking House 1:28:20 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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