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Imagine you're standing in your own kitchen, the smell of rich stew filling the air. Your father sits at the table, praising the meal your stepmother has prepared.

The best thing he's ever tasted, he says, asking for seconds, then thirds.

But you can't eat. You can't even look at the pot on the stove.

Because you know what's in it. You watched your stepmother chop the meat. You saw her add the herbs with practiced care. You helped gather the bones from beneath the table after your father finished eating. And those bones, every single one of them, belong to your brother.

What would you do to secure your child's inheritance?

It's a question that haunts the darkest corners of family dynamics, where love curdles into something poisonous, where the

people who should protect us become the monsters we fear most. Welcome to Freaky Folklore, where we

explore the legends that have terrified cultures for centuries. I'm your host, Carmen Carion, and

tonight we're stepping into one of the Brothers Grimm's most disturbing tales, a story so

macabre, so viscerally horrifying, that it's remarkable it was ever published in a collection

supposedly intended for children.

This is the Juniper Tree, a German fairy tale that strips away any sanitized

Disney notion of what folklore really is. This is a story about domestic violence, child murder,

cannibalism, and supernatural justice. It's a story that reminds us that the real monsters don't lurk in distant forests.

They sit across from us at the dinner table.

This show is part of the Eriecast Podcast Network.

Find more terrifying tales at eeriecast.com.

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