111-Thumbelina: Sweet Summer Child

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Thumbelina's life is already difficult. She lives in early modern Denmark and is no bigger than her mom's thumb. Oh, and also, everyone wants to marry her. And by everyone, I mean everyone. Frog moms want her to marry their sons and, somehow, the story gets stranger from there. In true Hans Christian Andersen fashion, this fairy tale for children about a girl being born from a flower and trying to find love contains kidnapping, death threats, crushing nihilism, and sleazy moles. Childhood was different back in the 1800s. The creature are shrimp fries! But you have to act now or they'll be gone...oh, wait...no. My bad. They died 200 years ago. --- Sponsor: The Great Courses Plus. I'm currently loving The Celtic World. Check it out...or check out ALL the courses for free for thirty days. You just have to go to my URL at http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/myths to get an entire month for free. Free! Check it out! --- Music: "Buzzy Minuet" by Chad Crouch "De Facto" by Chad Crouch "Platformer" by Chad Crouch "Drawing Mazes" by Chad Crouch "Idle Ways" by Blue Dot Sessions "Uncertain Ground" by Blue Dot Sessions "Velda Tallow" by Blue Dot Sessions "Sal's Piano Solo" by Blue Dot Sessions "Arbic Tallow" by Blue Dot Sessions "Button" by Chad Crouch

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0:00.0	This week, on Myths and Legends, it's the story of Thumbelina by Hans Christian Anderson,
0:04.9	and you'll see that if you have to kidnap wives for your slimy frog son who lives in your basement,
0:09.6	something somewhere in your parenting has gone horribly wrong.
0:13.2	The greats at this time is all you can eat fries.
0:16.0	As long as you don't mind them coming in the form of little oily shrimp,
0:19.3	that also kind of tastes like tartar sauce.
0:21.6	This is Myths and Legends, episode 111, Sweet Summer Child.
0:36.0	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:39.2	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:43.9	Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening.
0:47.9	Today's story is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson.
0:51.2	The date-nish writer of The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen,
0:54.4	The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess and The Pian More.
0:57.4	And we're just going to jump right in with a woman who hopes to be a mother,
1:01.2	making a poorly advised decision of requesting a child from her local witch.
1:06.1	I have my heart set upon having a tiny little child.
1:21.6	Please, will you tell me where I can find one?
1:24.4	The woman asked.
1:27.5	At this point, the witch, sitting across from her,
1:30.4	face-pombed, there was so much to impact here. First, the woman didn't know where she could,
1:37.3	quote, find a child. She didn't know that children weren't usually found, right,
1:43.0	unless you were an ogre, but even then you're stealing them.
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