The Christmas Spiders

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this Christmas tale from Germany, Storyteller Marion Leeper tells us about 'Tante' an old woman who is busily preparing her house on Christmas Eve to impress Christ Kindl - the bringer of Christmas. Tante cleans and polishes, and sweeps out the spiders and their webs, and decorates a particularly beautiful tree. When Christ Kindle visits, the exiled spiders beg him to let them into the house to see the tree. But will a house full of spiders stop the Christmas magic from happening? Listen to Marion Leeper’s story 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.
0:18.0	Wise tales from storytellers around the world, which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.
0:26.6	Recommended for ages 5 to 105.
0:31.6	I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:34.6	Well, hello, super great kids. Not long now until Christmas if you're celebrating.
0:42.6	Have you got your tree up yet? Is it sparkling and covered in baubles? Just as fairy tales differ
0:51.2	from country to country, so do the different ways people celebrate Christmas.
0:57.0	In Germany, families usually wait until Christmas Eve to put up their tree.
1:02.4	And they didn't always use a whole tree. In the past, families often decorated just like a
1:07.6	branch of a fir tree rather than a whole tree. In this Christmas story from Germany, told by Marian Leeper, we hear about an old woman who's putting up her tree and decorating her house on Christmas Eve.
1:22.6	Just before we meet Marion, can you think of your favourite Christmas story on super great kids' stories and why you like it?
1:32.0	One of my favourites is a white bear for the king because it's set in snowy Norway and Chris Bostock is very good at mimicking an elf.
1:43.0	I also like the boy and the snow wolf because I love wolves
1:47.6	and it reminds me of an exciting trip I once made to Snowy Siberia,
1:52.3	which is near the tippy, tippy top of the world.
1:55.8	So your turn, you have a think about which Christmas story you like listening to
2:00.3	while we have a quick word with the grownups.
2:08.3	Hello, super great kids, I'm back. Did you think of your favourite Christmas story? It might be one that your grownups tell you at Christmas time. Or it might be a story which is special to your family.
2:23.2	Or it might be one from super great kids stories like Father Frost and the Star Child or Wee Hugh and the Snow Angel or the dog, the cat, the owl and the peacock. You know that one where the animals talk a lot on Christmas Eve.
2:37.0	Lots of stories to choose from. But now it's time to give a very warm welcome to Mary and Leeper with her Christmas story from Germany.
2:49.0	Hello, my name's Marion and I'm from Germany. Hello, my name's Marion, and I'm from Cambridge.
2:53.6	And in Cambridge right now, they're Christmas decorations all over the place.
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