The Water of Life

Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff

Little Ears Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 932 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When an ailing king's three sons find out there is magical water which can restore their father's health, one by one they set out to find it. When it is the youngest brother's turn to go, he meets a goblin on the road who tells him where to find the magical water ... inside an enchanted castle. So, the young prince sets out to find the water of life. Listen to last week's episode, King Thrushbeard https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LEM2545252028.mp3?updated=1716130711 When a haughty princess finds fault with every suitor who arrives, especially King Thrushbeard, her father vows that the next man to enter the gates of palace will be her husband. So, when a musician enters the gates, the princess agrees to marry him and finds herself keeping house and selling baskets in the market. But what she doesn’t know is, the musician is not exactly who he says he is. Will the princess learn a humbling lesson?

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0:00.0	Good evening, children.
0:04.0	It's Granny Maduff, ready with a story.
0:07.0	So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin.
0:10.0	Once upon a time, there lived a king who was very ill.
0:18.0	His three sons were beside themselves.
0:22.5	They went into the gardens and wept.
0:25.7	An old man was sitting under a peach tree.
0:29.4	Why do you weep?
0:30.8	He asked.
0:32.6	Our father is ill and there is nothing we can do to save him.
0:37.4	Oh, but there is. I we can do to save him. Oh, but there is.
0:39.8	I know why you can save him.
0:42.3	He must drink the water of life and it will restore him to health.
0:47.7	But it's very hard to find, you see.
0:50.7	I will find it, said the eldest prince.
0:54.2	He begged permission from his father to set out to find the water of life.
0:59.2	But the king refused.
1:01.8	The danger is far too great.
1:04.9	What will come will come.
1:07.2	You shall not risk your life,' the king told his son.
1:16.2	But the prince would not give up he asked so many times that his father finally gave his consent so the eldest prince set out in search of the water of life
1:25.2	as he left he thought to himself if i find the water of life. As he left, he thought to himself,
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