Dark and Twisty Tales: folk stories and fairy tales for the unafraid. – Details, episodes & analysis

Belching up toads, paper dresses, beheadings and murder, this story has them all. I love this Grimm fairytale from the Philip Pullman collection, and I hope you do too?

This is the last episode in Season Three, so please write me a review and remember, storytelling is thirsty work!

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An old man in velvet pantaloons is befriended by a little boy with a toy soldier, however the soldier is NOT happy about this, has a tantrum and finds himself lost in the cracks and buried in an open grave, only to be found years later.

When the moon gets curious and snagged on a branch and then dragged into the bog by witches and bogles ... yeah that.

Chanticleer a canny rooster and his wife Partlet, have adventures, that usually involve nuts, carts, deceit, slavery, violence, cannibalism and death. I also have no idea what Mr. Korbes did to deserve that. Do you?

Welcome to the first episode of Season Three!

Mom, needs a nap, hero can't stop snacking and a bewitched Princess can't stop spinning around and around her glass mountain... hmmm sound familiar?

Less frog kissing and more frog splatting really and then at the end a weirdly obsessed servant has been to the blacksmiths...

Come on, who can resist a story about a half boy, half hedgehog, who rides a cockerel and plays the bagpipes? 

Credit must be given to my husband, son and his friend for providing pig noises in this episode and to 'FreeSound' and 'digifishmusic', 'Inchadney' and 'luis-audp' for their various piping recordings. xox

A not very dark or twisty episode this week, but a favorite of mine since childhood. The darkness I suppose lies in the fact that all these animals were going to get starved, drowned or decapitated because they had been deemed to old to be useful. I love the fact that they decide to start a band in their golden years...they're not the first and they won't be the last!

Like the earlier story I read Binnorie from the British Isles, this story also has a magical singing bone involved which identifies it's killer. Who could it be I wonder? I improvised a little tune for the poem in the story, one of my favorite things to do. It feels appropriately dark and plaintive. Enjoy!

When a little girl is just not satisfied unless she has the stars in the sky to play with...what could possibly go wrong?