Welcome to Drift Off, I'm your host Joanne, and you're listening to a preview of a bonus

episode called The Bird of Truth, collected by Andrew Lang in his orange fairy book.

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Tonight I will be reading a Spanish fairy tale by Fernán Caballero, later collected by Andrew

Lang in his orange fairy book. This tale is about a fisherman who finds a baby boy and a baby

girl in a crystal cradle floating on the river. He and his wife decide to keep the babies and

raise them along with their other children. However, the little boy and little girl eventually

run away because they're mistreated by their older siblings. Let's find out together now what

happens to this little duo on their adventure along the riverbank. So settle in comfortably

under the covers. Letting your body soften into the surface that you're resting on.

And give yourself permission to let go of everything,

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