Sienna and the Curse of the Sea Witch, Part IV: Tenebra Unleashed*

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Maked Up Stories

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

* This episode contains a briefly creepy scene in which the sea witch Tenebra (a personification of an invasive algae bloom) slithers up Captain Silas's arm and caresses his cheek. The algae then seeps into the ocean where it will need to be cleaned up. If you prefer to skip past this scene it appears from 4:20-4:30.

Mermaids Sienna and Marina are sisters but they have very different approaches to protecting the ocean, especially when it comes to humans. This story about protecting the ocean from a buried curse touches on themes of sisterhood, collaboration and adventure. Kids will also learn about ocean health and some of the things we can do to protect our oceans.

Maked Up Stories is a daily children’s bedtime stories podcast. Perfect for your bedtime routine, your commute, or for some high quality screen-free entertainment at home. Our interactive format will ignite your imagination. Rich vocabulary with plenty of context clues supports your child’s language development.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello to Makeup Stories. I am Gabi, go to MakeTapStars.com to join the MakeTap Club.
0:22.0	Hello and welcome to Make It Up.
0:24.5	I'm your host, Amanda.
0:26.4	We're looking for our first school class to submit a request for Makeup Stories.
0:31.6	If you'd like to have your class submit a story request,
0:35.0	have your teacher send us an email to Make-up stories at gmail.com.
0:40.8	Before we get started today, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Liam. Liam lives in Sir
0:47.3	Hadassah in Israel, and he is turning four years old. Happy birthday, Liam. Today we are continuing
0:54.0	our story, Sienna, and the Curse of the Sea Witch,
0:57.9	which is a request from Sienna in Oakville, Canada. Let's start with a quick recap of what has happened so
1:05.0	far. A long time ago, an evil sea witch named Tenebra and her curse of darkness were sealed into a golden treasure box and buried beneath the sea in Kaniohibe, Hawaii, where they were protected by a mermaid enchantment.
1:26.7	An unusual storm caused a map of the location to wash up on shore,
1:32.0	and an adventurous pirate named Captain Silas came to Canyohie Bay in search of the treasure.
1:39.3	Persevering through several obstacles put up by the magic of the watchful mermaid Marina, Silas arrived at the
1:46.8	treasure box while Marina looked on hopelessly, completely exhausted by her heavy use of magic.
1:58.4	Captain Silas knelt beside the treasure box, his fingers tracing the intricate carvings along its golden surface.
2:06.6	The markings twisted and curled like seaweed in a gentle current, their meaning lost on him.
2:13.7	To any mermaid, these markings would clearly speak to the dangers concealed within,
2:19.0	a curse of darkness that would curl around the filtered light in Kaniohipe's shallow waters
2:24.9	and choke it off, stifling all the plant in animal life that depended upon it.
2:31.4	To Silas, they seemed decorative, perhaps a pirate's family crest or an ancient
2:37.3	mariner's mark. If anything, they only reinforced his belief that the chest was filled with
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