The Bird of Truth (Premium Episode Preview)
Drift Off - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Joanne D'Amico
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This is a preview of a premium episode a available on Drift Off Premium. Tonight I will be reading a Spanish Fairy Tale by Fernan Caballero, later collected by Andrew Lang in his Orange Fairy Book. This tale is about a fisherman who finds a baby boy and 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 girl eventually run away because they are mistreated by their older brothers. Let’s find out together now, what happens to this little brother and sister on their adventure along the riverbank. I hope you enjoy!
Sweet dreamzzz...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Drift Off, I'm your host Joanne, and you're listening to a preview of a bonus |
| 0:07.8 | episode called The Bird of Truth, collected by Andrew Lang in his orange fairy book. |
| 0:15.1 | You can listen to the whole story and other episodes while enjoying intro and ad-free |
| 0:20.3 | listening by becoming a premium member at driftoff.supercast.com, where you can find the link in |
| 0:27.4 | the show notes that's driftoff.supercast.com Welcome to Drift Off, bedtime stories to help |
| 0:48.3 | you unwind, relax, and drift off. Thank you for joining me, I'm your host Joanne, and |
| 0:57.0 | it's a pleasure helping you get restful sleep. |
| 1:03.0 | Before we begin, I wanted to let you know that there's an even better way for you to |
| 1:08.4 | get a perfect night's sleep. There'll be no distractions and more bedtime stories, so |
| 1:15.1 | that you, our dear podcast listener, can enjoy amazing sleep. For just $5 a month, you |
| 1:23.7 | can sign up for the drift off premium, and you'll get all our episodes with no intro |
| 1:30.1 | and completely ad-free, plus two bonus episodes per month. This means you'll be able to enjoy |
| 1:36.8 | a new bedtime story every week, and you'll be supporting the show so we can produce even |
| 1:43.2 | more sleep stories. Go sign up at driftoff.supercast.com or see the link in the show notes. |
| 1:54.4 | Tonight I will be reading a Spanish fairy tale by Fernán Caballero, later collected by Andrew |
| 2:01.4 | Lang in his orange fairy book. This tale is about a fisherman who finds a baby boy and a baby |
| 2:08.8 | girl in a crystal cradle floating on the river. He and his wife decide to keep the babies and |
| 2:15.5 | raise them along with their other children. However, the little boy and little girl eventually |
| 2:22.0 | run away because they're mistreated by their older siblings. Let's find out together now what |
| 2:28.4 | happens to this little duo on their adventure along the riverbank. So settle in comfortably |
| 2:36.3 | under the covers. Letting your body soften into the surface that you're resting on. |
| 2:44.9 | And give yourself permission to let go of everything, |
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