The Magic Well
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 1:13.4 | This episode is brought to you by Fairy Fireplaces. Tonight, we'll read an Australian fairy tale called The Magic Well, |
| 1:22.6 | written by Hume Cook and published in 1925. |
| 1:31.8 | Hume Cook was a politician as well as a writer, |
| 1:38.0 | serving as a member of Australia's parliament at the turn of the 20th century. |
| 1:49.3 | Beyond politics, he had a lifelong fondness for storytelling and eventually wrote down the tales he had invented for his three children. |
| 2:01.7 | The result was a book called Australian Fairy Tales, Where Gum Trees, Bilobongs, and Local Wildlife mingled with elves and sprites, |
| 2:07.3 | firmly grounding old world fantasy in an Australian setting. |
| 2:16.1 | What makes these stories unusual is their attempt to create a distinctly Australian branch of fairy lore. |
| 2:20.9 | At the time, children's stories were still overwhelmingly European in flavor, full of castles, cobblestones, and northern forests. By weaving in native |
| 2:29.2 | landscapes and animals, Cook gave his children's stories where fairies might hide behind eucalyptus trees instead of oaks |
| 2:38.6 | or guard hidden wells in the bush rather than mossy clades. In the magic well, we'll hear one such tale |
| 2:48.6 | where an enchanted spring becomes the heart of a story about discovery and wonder. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. |
| 3:17.5 | Relax your body into the softness of your bed. |
| 3:28.0 | Now, take a few deep breaths. In the center of Australia, there's a large and lovely lake, |
| 3:43.6 | and its waters gleaming golden, from the sun their glory take. |
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