The Island of the Nine Whirlpools by Edith Nesbit - A Fairy Tale Sleep Story

Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults

Taesha Glasgow

Stories To Help You Sleep, Unknown, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Just Sleep, Bedtime Stories For Adults

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Drift off to sleep with tonight's reading of The Island of the Nine Whirlpools by Edith Nesbit. This story is taken from the Book Of Dragons, a collection of dragon fairy tales published in 1900. In this episode, a Princess is stranded on an island surrounded by nine whirlpools by her father. Nice guy. She is waiting for a clever Prince to rescue her but a sailor turns up instead.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you
0:17.1	an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep.
0:34.1	Occasionally, we will run ads in order to cover the costs of the production of the podcast.
0:42.0	Rest assured, there will be no ads during or after the story.
0:48.8	If you prefer an ad-free and intro-free show, you can join Just Sleep Premium.
0:59.3	Visit JustSleeppodcast.com
1:02.7	slash support for more information.
1:09.8	Do, do, do, bumper.
1:19.5	Okay, enough Rasmataz.
1:22.6	But it's not every day a new scratch card drops.
1:25.3	With the new set for five years scratch card from the national lottery.
1:29.1	You could win five grand a month, every
1:31.1	month for five years. Pick up yours
1:33.4	in store today and get scratching.
1:36.0	Search Dream Big Place Mall. Rules,
1:37.5	procedures and game specific rules apply.
1:38.8	Place must be 18 or over.
1:51.0	Tonight, I will be reading The Island of the Nine World Pools. So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.
2:00.0	The dark arch that led to the Witch's Cave read you a story.
2:08.4	The dark arch that led to the witch's cave was hung with a black and yellow fringe of live snakes. As the queen went in, keeping carefully in the middle of the arch, all the
2:16.0	snakes lifted their wicked flat heads and stared at her
2:19.5	with their wicked yellow eyes. You know it is not good manners to stare, even at royalty, except,
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