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Legends 54: Fairytale

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Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 β€’ 46.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Humans have spent a very long time collecting and sharing specific tales. But just because the most popular ones are bright and cheerful doesn’t mean the rest are without shadows.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Jamie Vargas and GennaRose Nethercott.

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Indeed.com slash show. Terms and conditions apply. Once upon a time, there was a peasant, and one day the peasant was working on his farm when he saw a heap of burning coals in the middle of the field. As he approached, he was astonished to see

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a tiny black devil sitting on the fiery stones. For some reason, instead of running away,

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the peasant decided to ask a rather odd question, are you sitting upon a treasure? And the devil

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replied, yes, on a treasure which contains more gold and silver

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than you have ever seen in your life. Feeling much braver than he probably should have,

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the peasant told Satan that since this was his field, then all the treasure in it belonged to him.

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The devil, who was sick and tired of having all the gold and silver in the

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world, told him that he could have it, as long as the man gave him half of everything that grew

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in the field. Half of his crops for the greatest treasure on earth? Well, that was just fine with the

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peasant. But in the interest of dividing the crops as evenly as possible, he proposed that the devil

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could take everything that grew above the ground, and he could keep everything that grew below.

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This sounded like a fair deal to the devil, and so once they were in agreement, he disappeared,

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and the peasant started planting his field.

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Many months later, the devil returned at harvest time,

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