The Three Little Elves in the Wood

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Little Ears Media

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

When a young woman is made to go out in a blizzard to find strawberries, she instead finds a cottage where three mysterious little elves live. After showing them great kindness, the elves decide to give her three gifts: to grow happier every day, to have gold pieces fall from her pockets whenever she speaks, and to have the king as her husband. Soon she finds her life more joyful than she could ever have imagined it, until her wicked stepmother arrives to try to take it all away. Will she succeed? If you loved this episode you may also like The Water of Life or King Thrushbeard - Take a listen! The Water of Life: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LEM1185626392.mp3?updated=1714960573 King Thrushbeard : https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LEM2545252028.mp3?updated=1716130711

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0:00.0	Good evening, children. It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin.
0:14.0	Once upon a time, there lived a man who was a farmer, and a woman who was a seamstress.
0:21.3	The man had a daughter who was called Anne.
0:24.4	And the woman had a daughter who was called Hannah.
0:28.3	They lived not far from one another.
0:31.3	The girls knew each other quite well.
0:33.7	And one day, after walking in the forest,
0:36.5	they went into the woman's house for some milk.
0:39.7	The woman said to Anne, I am considering taking a new husband.
0:45.2	I should like it to be your father.
0:47.9	Please deliver him this message.
0:51.2	Anne went home and told her father what the woman had said.
0:55.9	"'Much, marriage, it's but a blessing and a nuisance.
1:01.5	"'I'd quite like doing anything I please with no one telling me yay or nay.
1:06.4	"'But it would be good for you to have a mother.
1:11.8	He said to Anne.
1:15.7	It is your choice, father, she told him.
1:19.8	What shall I do? What shall I do?
1:21.6	He muttered to himself.
1:25.0	Oh, let us try it this way.
1:31.7	The man pulled off his boot and handed it to Anne. Take my boot up to the loft.
1:34.1	It has a hole in the soul.
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