Tale of Tales now has a Twitter and Instagram (@taleoftalespod) and over there we’ve been celebrating the release of Season 2 with #13DaysofTales, showing off not only the new episode art, but also some new art for the podcast featuring our two costars Lucas Brandon and Kaitlyn Millsap!
Check out Instagram and Twitter for HD versions and fuller descriptions of these new pieces of pod art!
Hey everyone! This update was originally intended to be a #Halloween one, but I unfortunately came down with the flu, followed by a nasty respiratory bug, so I’ve been recovering from both of those and trying to catch up on work for the last week and a half. Nevertheless, I wanted to offer you all a look at the #episodeart for the first four episodes of the show! These pieces are for the episodes (respectively) 1.01 “Red as Blood, White as Snow”, 1.02 “A Mouth Great and Wide”, 1.03 “In a Dark, Dark House”, and 1.04 “Driven Insane”. Episode #art is all drawn and edited by myself! Remember that if you’re willing to pledge $66 or more to the project, not only do you get to suggest a #story for me to cover, but you can even appear in the episode art for that story! If you weren’t aware, this past week was actually #FolkTaleWeek on Instagram, and I’d intended to offer a special surprise to celebrate, but neither my voice nor my schedule were quite up for it yet, so stay tuned for another exciting update some time this week! ;) And if you’d like more info head over to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshchrist27/tale-of-tales-podcast/ (at Tallahassee, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4s4gqLFfGf/?igshid=xp1xw7wjc9bp
Tale of Tales | episode: 2.01 “Beauty From Ashes (Part 1)”
Once there was a young noblewoman enslaved by her stepfamily...
In our first episode of season two of Tale of Tales, we'll explore patriarchal European beauty standards, the sordid and surprising interplay of colonization and international trade, and how (not) to try and get your foot to fit a shoe just a teensy bit too small...
Charles Perrault, “Cendrillon, or The Little Glass Slipper”, Tales of Mother Goose, trans. Andrew Lang (0:06:46-0:23:49)
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Aschenputtel”, Children’s and Household Tales, trans. D. L. Ashliman (0:27:35-0:47:23)
Giambattista Basile, “The Cinderella Cat”, Il Pentamerone, or The Tale of Tales, trans. Nancy Canepa (0:57:09-1:14:59)
Lin Lan, “Beauty and Pock Face”, Folktales of China, trans. Wolfram Eberhard and Desmond Parsons (1:24:23-1:37:42)
Cyrus Macmillan, “The Indian Cinderella”, Canadian Wonder Tales (1:42:20-1:49:52)
Ai-Ling Louie, Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Stort from China (1:54:11-2:07:21)
All Music Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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Track list:
"Wanderer" by Alexander Nakarada (0:00:00-0:01:32)
"Sonata in C Minor" by Kevin MacLeod (0:06:46-0:10:26; 0:18:53-0:19:24)
"Dreams Become Real" by Kevin MacLeod (0:11:10-0:17:17; 1:03:02-1:06:01; 1:47:33-1:49:49)
"The Endless" by Kevin MacLeod (0:19:24-0:21:09)
"To The Ends" by Kevin MacLeod (0:21:09-0:23:44; 0:37:52-0:40:18)
"Virtutes Instrumenti" by Kevin MacLeod (0:27:35-0:30:15)
"Sonata 17" by Kevin MacLeod (0:30:15-0:31:22; 1:12:05-1:15:00)
"Love Song" by Kevin MacLeod (0:32:29-0:37:18)
"Danse Macabre - Light Dance" by Kevin MacLeod (0:40:18-0:41:11)
"Danse Macabre - Finale" by Kevin MacLeod (0:41:11-0:41:34)
"Danse of Questionable Tuning" by Kevin MacLeod (0:42:53-0:43:57; 0:44:42-0:45:44)
"Royal Coupling" by Kevin MacLeod (0:46:06-0:47:24)
"Suonatore di Liuto" by Kevin MacLeod (0:57:09-1:01:10)
"Teller of the Tales" by Kevin MacLeod (1:01:25-1:02:16)
"Call To Adventure" by Kevin MacLeod (1:06:01-1:07:37)
"Hidden Agenda" by Kevin MacLeod (1:08:07-1:09:33)
"Master of the Feast" by Kevin MacLeod (1:09:49-1:10:43)
"Procession of the King" by Kevin MacLeod (1:10:43-1:11:58)
"Guzheng City" by Kevin MacLeod (1:24:23-1:26:10)
"Satiate Strings" by Kevin MacLeod (1:26:44-1:27:27)
"Ishikari Lore" by Kevin MacLeod (1:27:31-1:29:25; 1:59:11-2:00:08; 2:01:30-2:02:15)
“Return of Lazarus” by Kevin MacLeod (1:30:10-1:31:46)
“Truth in the Stones” by Kevin MacLeod (1:32:50-1:37:42)
“The Sky of Our Ancestors” by Kevin MacLeod (1:42:20-1:47:33)
“Eastern Thought” by Kevin MacLeod (1:54:12-1:59:11)
“Tempting Secrets” by Kevin MacLeod (2:00:31-2:01:30; 2:02:15-2:03:11; 2:06:35-2:07:23; 2:12:21-2:13:30)
“Opium” by Kevin MacLeod (2:03:11-2:06:30)
Episode Bonus: Little Saddleslut, the Greek Cinderella
While we only touched on a few in this episode, there are countless European variants on the Cinderella tale, most of them recorded after the Brothers Grimm, and not all of them have a protagonist whose nickname revolves around ashes or cinders. One recorded by Edmund Martin Geldart in his 1884 Folk-Lore of Modern Greece goes like this: Three sisters spinning flax decide to kill and eat their mother since she keeps dropping her spindle. The elder two butcher and cook her, but the youngest regrets the decision and refuses to partake, sitting on a saddle in the corner and weeping, which earns her the nickname “Little Saddleslut”. She buries the bones under the hearth only to find them transformed into a cache of gold coins and spectacular heavenly clothing.
On Sunday after her sisters go to church she washes up and dresses in the clothing and goes herself, but throws a handful of gold coins to distract everyone when she leaves. Her clothing is too bright for her sisters to recognize her. On her third try at doing this, she also loses a gold shoe, and the king’s son finds it and declares he will marry the woman it fits. Saddleslut profusely refuses to try on the shoe or marry the prince, but reluctantly does both.
When she gives birth to a baby, her sisters sneak her away in a chest and toss it in a river. An old woman finds her and frees her, and Saddleslut prays to God for shelter in the dark wilderness. God gives her a magic cottage where all the furniture talks to her and obeys her orders. Hunting in the woods, the prince comes across the cottage and awkwardly reunites with her. At her direction, the cottage uproots and takes them back to the city, where the prince chops her sisters into pieces.
Hi all! I thought I'd pop in with an update about the current episode schedule! This here is the plan I've got as of right now for the first three months of the podcast, in case that helps in terms of visualizing how things we'll work. I'll update on the 13th of every month with two single-hour episodes, each taking a dive into a particular theme or trope in storytelling. As you can probably infer from this list, some episodes will be much narrower than others -- for instance, three of the episodes take a big picture look at wolves (1.2), houses (1.3), and cars (1.4), while two of them look at common story patterns (children hunted by maternal figures in 1.1, and abandoned children in 1.6), and 1.5 takes a narrow focus on the figure of Baba Yaga in Russian folklore. Two of these episodes are actually suggestions from donators from the initial Kickstarter page, which just goes to show that your suggestions can be here too, no matter how broad or narrow a subject you're thinking: whether it's a big theme or a single story! You can head on over to kickstarter.com/joshchrist27/tale-of-tales-podcast to read more about these episodes, listen to the sample ep, and donate whatever you can! For $13 you can even pitch your own story suggestion! It’s a one-time-only donation that only leaves your account if the project is fully funded! #kickstarter #taleoftales #taleoftalespodcast #taleoftalespod #scarystories #scarystoriestotellinthedark #alvinschwartz #scary #spooky #horror #halloween #hauntedhouses #houses #cars #witches #wolves #wolfman #werewolves #folklore #lore #folktales #fairytales #snowwhite #littleredridinghood #hanselandgretel #theamityvillehorror #grimmbrothers #ghosts #storytelling #storytellingpodcast (at Tallahassee, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B30CoQKFy2e/?igshid=10r6o9x62nol6
