The Silent Princess
Drift Off - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Joanne D'Amico
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to tonight's bedtime story! The lovely Turkish tale of The Silent Princess collected by Andrew Lang in his Olive Fairy book. A story of a Pasha's young son who is cursed by an old woman. The curse takes hold years later when the son grows into a handsome young man and becomes obsessed with trying to make the silent princess speak so she can become his bride. Will he and his clever nightingale outsmart the beautiful Princess to trick her into speaking? Well let's find out! Settle in comfortably and snuggle up tight and then let's get sleepy together. Sweet dreams my friend and good night!
P.S. There are a few very unique names in this story and I do apologize if I have mispronounced them!! I tried to do some research on pronunciations but could not find these names anywhere. So keeping my fingers crossed!
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| 0:00.0 | You don't have to be stuck in a cycle of thoughts that are making falling asleep difficult. |
| 0:10.0 | On Drift Off, we're here to help. |
| 0:13.1 | Each episode is a bedtime story that will help you relax as you focus on listening. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm your host Joanne, and I'm ready to help tuck you in. |
| 0:25.7 | Before you drift off, be sure to subscribe to our podcast on your favorite app. |
| 0:31.9 | And leaving a review or rating on Apple podcasts can really help our new podcast grow. |
| 0:39.6 | And thank you so much for your support. |
| 0:43.6 | Tonight's story is a tale by Andrew Lang called The Silent Princess, and I hope you |
| 0:50.3 | enjoy it. |
| 0:52.6 | As a soulmate friend, the day is over, you did your best. |
| 0:58.8 | Night has come, it's time to rest. |
| 1:13.9 | Once upon a time, there lived in Turkey, Apasha, who had only one son, and so dearly did |
| 1:21.9 | he love this boy, that he let him spend the whole day amusing himself, instead of learning |
| 1:28.4 | how to be useful, like his friends. |
| 1:32.4 | Now the boy's favorite toy was a golden ball, and with this, he would play from morning |
| 1:38.4 | till night without troubling anybody. |
| 1:42.6 | One day, as he was sitting in the summer house in the garden, making his ball run along |
| 1:48.6 | the walls and catching it again. |
| 1:51.6 | He noticed an old woman, with an earthen picture coming to draw water from a well which stood |
| 1:58.4 | in a corner of the garden. |
| 2:01.3 | In a moment, he had caught his ball and flung it straight at the picture, which fell to |
| 2:06.1 | the ground in a thousand pieces. |
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