Queen of the Witches

Super Great Kids' Stories

Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Stories For Kids

4.5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A sweet old woman sets off on a quest to solve the mystery of some missing eggs. Her search leads her to Hecate the Queen of the Witches who sets the old woman trembling. What will she find there waiting in the shadows? A goddess with the face of a lion, the body of a snake, and the horns of a bull? And can she get the answers she’s seeking? Listen to storyteller Sarah Liisa Wilkinson and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories, wise tales from storytellers around the world, which will make you laugh and
0:24.6	sometimes cry. Recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories. Today's story is called Hekate, Queen of the Witches, and it's another story for
0:41.9	Halloween, told by Sarah Lisa Wilkinson, who also told us the Witches Stone.
0:49.4	How are you, super great kids? Did you have a good week? This week, Hindus and others in India and countries
0:57.3	around the world have been celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Light. So we've had lots of
1:04.1	fireworks displays in the UK this weekend. I went to a different sort of festival this week,
1:10.4	which was celebrating books and stories,
1:14.2	where I met some super great kids fans and also many people who didn't know about our podcast,
1:20.4	so that put a skip in my step, to meet some of you loyal listeners and also share tales with people new to super great kids stories.
1:29.9	So, hello to Aria, Ala, Ewan, Everly, Juliet, Anton, Jessica, Jonas, Piper and Orion.
1:40.1	And hello to Elijah, Lila, Fletcher, Emmy, Phoebe, Jack, Oscar, Hazel, Caspian, Amelia, Danny and Stefan.
1:52.9	We'll post your marvellous pictures on our Facebook page and I'll say hello to some more of you after today's story when we fly around the world with Story Hour and greet some of our owlets.
2:06.5	And thanks to those of you who tuned in to our live online show to watch Jason and Amy and Massico Carey telling stories.
2:16.0	Massico said she really enjoyed meeting you all. Now, today's story is a quest.
2:23.0	Do you know what a quest is? It's a tale about somebody who sets off on an adventure, sometimes a bit of a
2:30.4	dangerous one, to find something. They might be looking for answers to a problem or for work or to find a prince or a princess.
2:41.0	Do you remember Bakur in Bakur and the Dragon, who set off to find work and money to support
2:47.5	his hundred children?
2:49.8	And then he ended up tricking a dragon
2:51.6	and getting lots of gold to take home for his family.
2:54.6	Well, that was a quest story.
2:56.6	So here's my question while we talk to the grown-ups.
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