Medusa Wants a Haircut

Girl Tales

Stories For Kids, Fiction, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Medusa is done with having snakes for hair. Will a haircut solve all of her problems? Writer: Delaney Yeager Voice-Over Artists: Rebecca Cunningham Producer: Maria Wurttele Line Producer: Harry Poster Executive Producer and Host: Rebecca Cunningham Links for the Grownups! Patreon Girl Tales Store Rebecca’s Newsletter Facebook Instagram Buy the Girl Tales Team a Coffee

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1:20.1	Now on to our episode. This is Medusa Wants a Haircut. Enjoy!
1:40.0	I'd like to tell you about a friend of mine. Her name is Medusa. Now I know what you're going to say.
1:47.9	You mean Medusa, the Gorgon, with snakes for hair and a gaze that turns people to stone?
1:53.3	Medusa, the only mortal child of primordial, thonic, seagots, four seas and seeto?
2:00.8	Medusa, whose tale became widespread in archaic Greece a period which lasted from about 800 to 480 BC?
2:09.8	That Medusa? To which I say, yes, that one.
2:14.8	Also, wow, your knowledge of Greek mythology is impressive. Color me intimidated.
2:21.8	But I am here to tell you that Medusa is so much more than her well-known story and so much more than the scary snakehead lady you see a lot in Halloween decorations.
2:33.8	Because, as we've learned, there is always more than meets the eye to the residents of freshwater.
2:41.8	Take me, Rebecca, for example. I seem like I'm just a regular lady living in freshwater who tell stories about all of my neighbors.
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