Bearskin
Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff
Little Ears Media
4.4 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A young soldier makes a deal with a demon: he must wear a bearskin and not cut his beard or hair for seven years. If he succeeds, he will have wealth and happiness. But what if he fails?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, Gordy here. We've got something new. Super new. Fresh, cool. It's a new show, starring me and Lily. |
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| 0:32.5 | Oh, this is gonna be fun. |
| 0:34.8 | See you in the suburbs. |
| 0:45.2 | Good evening, children. |
| 0:48.1 | It's Granny Mcduff, ready with a story. |
| 0:51.7 | So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. |
| 0:59.4 | Once upon a time, there lived a young man who was a soldier. |
| 1:03.3 | He was a good fighter and an honest man. |
| 1:09.6 | When the war was done and peace finally came, he was sent on his way. With no home to speak of, he decided to pay a visit |
| 1:14.5 | to his brothers. Perhaps they had room for him and work too. But when he arrived, he found them |
| 1:22.9 | quite heartless. Go and make your own way, they told him. But I know only how to fight. I've learned no other |
| 1:33.1 | trade, he said. But his brothers did not care. And so the soldier went on his way. Deep in the forest, |
| 1:50.0 | he found himself lost. He had nothing to his name except the boots on his feet and bow and arrow on his back. He sat on a log, feeling quite sorrowful. I haven't any |
| 1:59.7 | money or skills other than fighting. |
| 2:03.6 | What am I to do? |
| 2:06.6 | He thought. |
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