Mother Holle (Bonus Episode Preview)
Drift Off - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Joanne D'Amico
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This is a preview of a bonus episode that is only available to Drift Off Premium members. To listen to the entire episode, you can sign up at driftoff.supercast.com
Tonight's storytelling is a classic fairytale by the Brothers Grimm called Mother Holle about a widow and her 2 daughters. One daughter is her own daughter, who is unattractive and unkind and whom Mother Holle loves dearly. The other is her step-daughter, who of course is quite lovely as usual with these vintage stories..is mistreated and unloved. So take a moment to get all cozy and comfy under the covers and lets find out what happens in this Cinderella-like fairytale story! Sweet dreamzzz...
Music in this episode is 'Near Dawn' by S.A Kari via https://www.epidemicsound.com
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode preview, available to all Drift-Off Premium members. |
| 0:09.9 | You can listen to the whole story and other episodes while enjoying ad-free listening |
| 0:14.8 | by becoming a Premium member at Drift-Off.supercast.com or you can find the link in the show notes that's Drift-Off.supercast.com |
| 0:30.0 | Tonight's Ed Time Reading is the classic tale of Mother Holly about a widow who has two daughters. |
| 0:47.4 | One daughter is her own daughter who is unattractive and unkind and whom Mother Holly loves dearly. |
| 0:56.9 | The other is her stepdaughter who of course is quite lovely as usual with these vintage stories |
| 1:04.1 | and is mistreated and unloved. So let's find out together now what exactly happens in this story |
| 1:12.2 | that seems to have a very similar theme as the story of Cinderella. |
| 1:16.7 | And so as always my friend, take a moment to settling comfortably into your bed. |
| 1:27.2 | Feel the softness of the pillows and blankets, feeling all comfy and cozy as the day now comes to an end. |
| 1:41.9 | Take a full comfortable breath and as you exhale, relax and let go. |
| 1:53.8 | Allow any tension to just melt away, sinking deeper and deeper down into the surface below. |
| 2:08.0 | There is nothing else to do and nowhere else to be so just lay back, relax and enjoy the story. |
| 2:38.5 | There was one so widow who had two daughters. One of whom was pretty and industrious, |
| 2:57.6 | while the other was unattractive and lazy. But she was much fonder of the unattractive and lazy |
| 3:05.1 | one because she was her own daughter. And the other who was a stepdaughter was obliged to do all |
| 3:13.3 | the work and be the Cinderella of the house. Every day the poor girl had to sit by a well in the highway |
| 3:23.2 | and spin and spin till her fingers bled. Now it happened that one day the shuttle was marked with |
| 3:33.5 | her blood, so she dipped it in the well to wash the mark off. But it dropped out of her hand and |
| 3:41.4 | fell to the bottom. She began to weep and ran to her stepmother and told her of the mishap. |
| 3:50.9 | But of course she scolded her sharply and was so merciless as to say, |
| 3:57.7 | since you have let the shuttle fall in you must fetch it out again. |
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