Supernatural Water Babies
Free The Rabbits
Joel Thomas
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Water Babies are mythical, often dangerous spirits in Western folklore, particularly among Great Basin tribes like the Shoshone and Paiute, appearing as drowned infants or water creatures that lure people to their deaths with crying sounds. They are also found in Charles Kingsley's "Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale For A Land-Baby" which describes the Queen of Fairies luring children into the water to transform them into infant water creatures.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, free range rabbits. I hope you are all doing well today. I just wanted to let you know about something new we are doing here on Fridays. We are bringing over the short form content from YouTube for you to also listen to here as well. The only caveat, it will be a month after the original air date. So if you're wanting to get to these recordings earlier than when they drop |
| 0:21.1 | here on Spotify, Apple Podcast, etc., head on over to my YouTube channel at Free the Rabbits, |
| 0:27.9 | and you'll get the full recording plus video. This one no way hinder the long-form episodes |
| 0:33.4 | that drop every Monday at 12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Love you all. Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:40.6 | Merkle. Media. What are water babies in Native American culture and modern times. Now, today we're |
| 0:50.2 | going to start with the water babies, a fairy tale for a land baby. And it is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. And we're going to start with the Water Babies, a fairy tale for a land baby, and it is a |
| 0:55.6 | children's novel by Charles Kingsley, and we're going to get into who Charles Kingsley is here |
| 1:00.4 | in a minute, and it was written in 1862 to 1863, and it was a part of Matt Millen's |
| 1:08.9 | magazine, and it was written partially as a satire in support of |
| 1:14.9 | Charles Darwin's on the origin of species, so Darwinism, evolution. It was used to support that. |
| 1:22.1 | And very interestingly enough, you're going to find out when we go through this book, |
| 1:26.6 | that it had a lot of Christian |
| 1:28.5 | themes as well. It has been very interesting to see some of the characters that have pushed |
| 1:32.8 | Darwinism over the years that do profess to be Christians, but completely turn their back on |
| 1:39.1 | what the Bible is actually saying. Now, Macmillan's magazine, it was a monthly British magazine, and it was published in |
| 1:45.7 | 1859 and 1907, and that was by Alexander Macmillan. Now, Alexander Macmillan, he was the co-founder |
| 1:53.2 | in 1843 with his brother Daniel, and they started what was originally called the Macmillan |
| 1:59.4 | and Company, and it was a firm that was started out of a successful bookshop in Cambridge. |
| 2:05.5 | And Alexander's brother Daniel was interestingly enough, the grandfather of Harold Macmillan, |
| 2:11.0 | who was actually the prime minister of the UK later on down the line. |
| 2:15.6 | So they were a very connected family. |
| 2:20.3 | Also, one of the big contributors to the magazine's first decade of publication was F.D. Maurice and John Frederick Denison Maurice. |
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