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The Wicked Library

WFT S2E1: The Yellow Dwarf

The Wicked Library

9th Story Studios LLC

Books, Fiction, Drama, Arts

4.6684 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We kick of Season 2 of Wicked Fairy Tales with this King Sized tale of a spoiled princess, fairies, kings and a dwarf.  To Celebrate the kick off of Season 2, this first tale is shared with our full audience. To enjoy a new Wicked Fairy Tale each month, support the show at the $5 a month level.


Enjoy this trigger filled French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, later collected by Andrew Lang in The Blue Fairy Book.


By Madame d'Aulnoy.


As told by The Librarian.

Narration Edit and Original Score by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

Transcript

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0:00.0

9th Story Studios, giving story a voice.

0:07.0

Once upon a time, dark wicked tales were told.

0:22.7

Stories of monsters and magic.

0:26.5

Of death, murdering other wicked deeds.

0:31.3

Stories of forests and of fairies and gold.

0:36.4

Tales both delightful and tragic.

0:40.8

Now I'll tell one, and we'll see where it leads.

0:45.1

Hi.

0:45.5

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

1:02.0

Hello, boils and and Goals! It's fairy tale time with your old pal the librarian. Are we ready for this one? Oh, this is a good one. This one's called the Yellow Dwarf. And we'll see how many trigger warnings we can throw into one insensitive old fairy tale, shall we?

1:17.5

Let's begin.

1:19.8

Once upon a time, there lived a queen who had been the mother of a great many children,

1:25.1

and of them all, only one daughter was left, but then she was worth

1:30.5

at least a thousand.

1:33.0

Let's keep that phrase in mind, kiddies.

1:36.5

Her mother, who since the death of the king, her father, had nothing in the world.

1:41.4

She cared for so much as this little princess, she was so terribly

1:45.9

afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her and never tried to correct any of her faults.

1:52.1

The consequence was that this little person who was as pretty as possible, and was one day

1:57.4

to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that

2:02.8

she despised everyone else in the world. The queen, her mother, by her caresses and flatteries,

2:10.3

helped to make her believe that there was nothing too good for her. She was dressed almost always

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