Fairy Tale Fix - 110: Hot Mermaid Shit

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

We're back at it again with some hot mermaid sh*! Kelsey tells a very mysterious tale we need all the details on about a Lorelai-esque baddie named Anna Mayala from The Turnip Princess while Abbie makes good on her promise and delivers two Palestinian tales of old women with The Old Woman Ghouleh and The Old Woman and Her Cat.

We're just doing it now. We're just doing our best. Yeah. Our best is... I think it's... It's okay. And our best is okay. As we've said before in previous episodes, we are doing our okayest.

We really are. Life is just one thing after the other, after the other. Mm-hmm. And fortunately, we have just the best listeners and patrons in the whole wide world who are you know happy to support us through it yeah everybody's really understanding so our episodes as you'll probably know from like maybe almost a month ago are we're out coming out a little bit late and that's just our reality now I think that's just life that's just how it is we're short-staffed um

There's just too... Short-staff continues to crack me up. We've always been short-staffed. Well, because our listeners are so amazing. I think they're just so kind and so generous. And we actually... We're really lucky. We're so lucky.

Thank you all so much for all your kind messages and you're always like so understanding. Because I know how it's probably annoying to really like a podcast and not have it come out a week late or... Yeah, or like some of the benefits are slow to reach you. Yeah, or we like, we randomly put it on pause. Or if I forgot to send you anything like stickers or a card, you can always hit me up, message us on Patreon and let me know. I'm happy to send you more stickers or even if you just want more and you've got some. Like, just reach out. Let me know.

It's absolutely. It's just us. We're just here doing it out of our house and do it, doing it. Yes, short staffed in-house. everything. But we're just, I don't know, but like people, people keep supporting us and keep signing up despite the fact that I'm a very slow editor. And it just, I just, I don't know, we love you all so much.

We're really, we're so grateful. We're very lucky. And we're awesome. This community is really cool and awesome and full of only the best people. Agreed. Oh, by the way, I'm just going to get right into it. This is fairy tale fix. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We might as well, because I think the last episode, we didn't say that. Well, no, that was the episode with Tish. The episode before that, we didn't intro the show until like 13 minutes into the intro. So yes. We're doing our okayest. We're doing our okayest. Fairy tale fix is a what-the-fuck fairy tale podcast where Abby and I read classic fairy and folk tales from around the world to each other. And then we fix them to however we would like to see.

That's perfect. I think we have great ideas. I agree. It's a good system. Speaking of our awesome patrons, we do have three new patrons to thank. Thank you to Melissa. And our new job creating dragons, Dana and Kate. Oh my gosh.

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yes big love and I also wanted to, we also need to rethink Rabia for sending us books. Yes. We thanked Rabia before on an episode that we ended up using as a Patreon exclusive episode.

So we wanted to make sure we are rethinking her again on the public feed. She gave us books, two books that I personally, I'm very excited to read. They've been on my list for a while. Dragon's Breath and Beast. and then I think Is Beast the one

that has a bunch of Rumpel-Skiltskin retellings? I think it's the Rumpel's-Skid-Skin problem. That might be the Rumpel's Sillskin problem. Beast is a different one. But Dragon's Breath has literally been on my TBR for some time. So as soon as I get through the latest Brandon Sanderson book, which is about 1,200 fucking pages, I will be moving on to Dragon's Breath.

expeditiously. So I am very, very excited for that. I might just throw Brandon Sanderson out the window and do Dragon's Breath instead, to be honest. This book is so long. It's good, but it's long. Yeah, that is a really long. Wow. Yeah. I could go on a whole rant about that. I'll save it for some other time. But the point is, thank you, Rabia. We also really want to thank Jackie for sending us Never Whistle at night. We mentioned that and I couldn't remember your name and I couldn't find our messages. So thank you for reaching out on Patreon and letting me know that you were the one who sent that. We love you. You guys are just the best. All right. Is that enough gushing? I think that's enough gushing. I don't know. I feel like we could go, we could really go on forever. Yeah. I'm also going to throw

out there that Ricky, I ran into Ricky, our previous very overlord, and he had someone stole his fairy tale fix hat when he was on vacation. I think it was like a flirty, like girl took his hat and didn't give like, I'm not going to give this back, which sounded very cute. That is very cute. And I was like, good. Now she has our hat. As is Ricky. Yes. So maybe it's just our target audience. So thank you for the free advertising. But yeah, I got him a new hat and wanted to shout out, Ricky. He was our fairy overlord for a very long time and he's great. He's amazing.

I have no idea if he still listens to the podcast. I don't know. Ricky, if you're listening, I'm calling you soon. We'll get together. I'm going to give you your hat. Thank you for promoting the show with our target audience, which is mischievous girls. She was probably a fairy, right? She was probably a fairy, right?

That seems like fairy. nonsense to steal stuff. Absolutely. Very on brands. I approve. Beyond that, how are you? I am so good. I'm so excited because we're recording this on August 15th. And I am going to see Into the Woods tomorrow at the Allen Elizabethan theater in Ashland, Oregon. And I'm just so excited because it's going to be like, it's like a good theater.

So it's going to be this big production. It's been going since like early spring. So they really got it nailed down at this point I assume I haven't looked up anything about it Like I didn't want to know I want to be totally surprised Okay yeah I love I love that I'm so excited I'm so excited for you

I can't wait to hear all about it like I Because I just I've never seen Into the Woods staged live I've only ever seen like the movie with Meryl Streep And then yeah I know right And then like endless rewatches of the original Broadway cast film So I'm so excited to know, like, are they going to copy the original Broadway cast pretty closely? Is it or they can have a totally different spin on it?

I can't wait. I'm so excited for you. I know. I'm excited. It'll be really fun. And I've heard Ashland is also just, like, really cute. I was, like, looking up the menu at the restaurant, I have reservations for, and, like, I'm going to get an espresso martini and a wedge salad. And looking at the dessert menu, like.

You have your meals, plans, and everything. That is so cute. I'm so excited. Oh, Kelsey, I'm so excited for you. I'm literally leaving right after this recording. Yes. So let's, we got to get you on the road. But I appreciate you taking this time to spend it with all of us. Because Kelsey is going on this trip for her birthday. This is her birthday. This is her birthday trip. I will be 36 tomorrow. And I feel like 36 is such a good. number it's hell yeah

I always like even numbers not that I don't like odd numbers but yes yes no but I feel like anything with a five in it is gross it's middling it's literally in the middle

it's average make up your mind I'm not excited to turn 35 this year 36 is a much better number yeah I like it like I've survived 36 whole years

that's yes you have. I think that's pretty good. That's really good. I'm impressed. Um, in this economy. Good job. Oh, thank you. It'll be fun. I'm very excited. I just, yeah. Anyway. Happy, happy, happy birthday. Oh, thank you. Did you have any updates to share? Abby Brain go blank. Abby have long months so far. too much worky not enough not enough playtime uh i don't i have my usual list of media i'm consuming in my non-working time sometimes during my worky time that's it i watched alien earth a couple nights ago did you like it did you watch all of it okay i watch there's two only two

episodes out. Oh, okay, okay. At the time. I think, I think more come out this weekend, maybe. I'm not sure. How long are they? They're an hour each. That's a long for an episode. Like, that's like a full... It's long. Yeah. And, okay, so I will try to be as brief as possible so that we can get into the stories and get you out of here to enjoy your birthday. You're good. It doesn't have to be, like, right at 12, just like, ish. Yeah, still, though. Um, I don't know. They're doing some interesting things. I'm going to try to be a spoiler light for the listeners, but you've also said that you really don't have any like inkling or interest in it.

So I won't try that hard. No, probably not. I do want to hear about it, though. Okay. So I think it's interesting to take Alien and try to make it a TV show. I think any time you take a concept that is sort of like a pure horror concept and try to extend it into multiple one-hour episodes, I think that's, I don't know.

Like, I think that that breaks up the tension in a way that is hard to maintain because horror movies depend on, like, ratcheting that up. Yeah. So I thought they were going to just really do something where they really, really take their time with the setup, and then you get, like, a lot of,

extended like freaky shit toward the second half maybe of the season. But it seems like the first two episodes really give me the impression that they are rushing towards something. I'm just not sure what it is yet because I feel like we've gotten three different alien franchise movies packed into two one hour episodes. And so it kind of to me feels like I really wish they would just pick a concept and just do that. I'm also just going to throw this out there real quick.

Abby and I have both started watching Gilmar Girls for the very first time. Hell, yes. And I have been enjoying it immensely. I did not think, I started watching it because Veronica's been watching it every single time I've gone over to her house. And I was like, I'm just going to give it a try. And I really didn't think that I would get into it. And now I'm totally into it.

I think you're actually, I got Abby into it. And now I think you're ahead of me. Yes. I need you to catch up. And I watched like three episodes last night, so. I've been putting it on a side screen while I play Pillars of Eternity. That's a perfect show. That's a perfect side show.

Yep. It is because we don't really have to pay that much attention. No. It's been fun. Revisiting like a 2000s show when we were Rory's age at the time and now we're a lower Lai's age. Probably would be very different if we had watched it when we were 16, maybe. I kind of, I kind of wish, I kind of wish we had, so we had that to compare to, but also

I'm enjoying this experience. Yeah. I feel like I'm getting that side from Veronica, because I'll say, I'll say something, and she's like, oh, but we all love Jess. And I'm like, what? Jess is fucking gross. Don't come at us. I am a stand of Paris and Rory.

Paris and Rory forever. Forever. If only the show. Paris loves Rory so much. so romantic and tense between them it is i can't even stand it anyway uh yeah we should read some fairy tales yes we'll get to the we are now on the fairy tale portion of fairy tale fix because we could really go on it on about uh all of the relationships on Gilmore girls we could and we have we could and we have and we will again soon uh okay in the meantime though

what are we doing? What are we reading? I think are you starting? What how long is the story you picked out? Um, I picked out two possible stories. Me too. I picked a short one and a long one. I picked kind of like two shortish ones. So depending on what we do. Do you I'm going to start off with my long one? Let me. Yes. I think I went first. I went first in 108. Yes. And then we had Tish. So I'm going to have you go first. Okay. And then we'll see what...

Let's do it. We'll see which one I go with for mime. Well, in that case, the story I picked today is from the turnip princess and other newly discovered fairy tales by Franz Zever van Schoenverth. I'm very excited. Yeah, I really like the story. And I'm going to give you a little hint in that. I had no fucking clue where the story was going the entire time. Oh, okay, okay.

And I audibly gassed what the fuck, at least twice. So I feel like it's a good one. Okay. And the title is Anna Mayala. Or Mayala. I'm not sure how you say that name. I know, that gives you absolutely nothing. No.

Oh, real quick. I did want to go over just a couple. So we had a bonus episode and we did go over. I wanted to go over a couple of predictions that our patrons made because. Oh my gosh. Yes, please. We posted the picture. So like sometimes, you know, we read like a cold, a cold reading of a fairy tale and we

both look at the picture and then make predictions based off of that. So we did that with our patrons from our last bonus episode number 30. And I wanted to share some of their predictions because they were really funny. And also maybe they'll help you with yours. Because they were so good as they were coming in I was like I'm stealing some of these This might give me good ideas All right, hit me

Okay, so the picture is of like Just half of a giant guy looking out a window And there's like a little lad with a sword It's on our Instagram You can go check it out Butterfly is predicted The little man wants to go to the ball The body is being made for him to use the ball

And things go horribly wrong I thought those were so Okay. Sarah predicted the golden ball is the cause of this half-person situation, which I love the phrase half-person situation. Yeah, great. When the situation starts, the legs are on their own with no torso in sight and the protagonist is helpful. I want to make stories out of all of these. It's just so fun. Absolutely. I like the protagonist is helpful. as a prediction. Right?

He was not. He was the cause of the situation in that one. One of our favorite people in the whole world, Chris Otto predicted. I thought it was funny. He predicted. I was like, I'm sure he knows what this is. But one, cranky wizard has a kind hard deep down. Aw.

Fucking love. That's never true. My favorite prediction of all time, female character is the smartest one. in the story and makes living with ghosts seem fun. I want that fairy tale. Yeah.

All those predictions. I want that fairy tale real bad. Yeah. I also love, yeah, the woman is the smartest one. Yep. Obviously. Smartest one in the story. That's probably always true.

Oh, let me see for any other good ones. These are all really good ones. Yeah, I'm also going to have to file these away. Giselle has one of my favorites. She said, talking animal, which is great. The golden ball is hardly in the story, which is such a good prediction. But my favorite is only half of that giant is married to a princess. She's so funny.

That's also a great one. Okay. And I can't read all of them because there's too many. Okay. I think that's all of them. We'll just skip. But they were so funny. I loved the predictions.

Thank you for making predictions. All right. Give me three predictions for Anna Mayala. Okay. I'm definitely going to steal the female protagonist is the smartest one. Okay. I know. That's a great prediction.

It's a great one. Love it. I'm going to say the protagonist is unhelpful. Protagonist is unhelpful. I love that. Important shoe. Ooh, important shoe. Okay.

It's going to throw a crazy one in there and see what happens. Yeah, you're just do whatever. Yeah. Yeah. And it's mediumish. It's not super long, but the pages are small. Anyway. Anna Mayala.

A handsome young man named Vary. lived in a village and his beloved was the most beautiful girl imaginable she was named Anna Mayala and she was poor the many suitors who were a source of grief

for both young people but in the end of persistence paid off for Vary and the wedding day was set oh okay good for Vary very had a wild side to him Ooh Very was a daydreamer Oh was he the bad boy

No Well, yeah, he totally was. He was a daydreamer, withdrawn at times, and occasionally he sang shocking songs about the underworld. And that's why they called him Crazy Very. Wait, so is this guy basically Jess from Gilmore Girls? No. I like Crazy Very better.

Well, I don't know. Probably. Okay, so maybe we just don't like Jeff. because they're like old and we're like, ew, gross. I just don't, I just don't like him being mean to people that have not been mean to him first. Go be mean to Rory's grandparents or something, but like, everyone else is trying to help you and you're fucking stealing their garden gnomes, you little piece of shit. He's just a shit. Yeah.

I don't, I hate the he's mean to everyone but her trope. I don't like it. I think people should be nice to everyone. And that's, I find that very attractive. Yes, definitely. Like, you can still be a bad boy, but be, like, kind. Yes. Punk kindness is what I want to see.

Like, be mean to the man. Go yell at Taylor. Yes. Exactly. Honestly, be more like Luke. Punch up only. Yeah, whatever. I also just go on.

Sorry. Okay. Crazy Barry. back to Crazy Very On the day You gotta cut all that out We can't just talk about Gilmer Girls a little time Because I could

We could It's our podcast but This is now a Gilmore Girls podcast You're actually going to tell you all about How we feel about how Chad Michael Murray Why did they replace one bad boy with another That's just insufferable

Oh my God That's such a good point Inseparable but hot like what was the point of that who's writing this okay amy sherman paladino we'd like words with you i like that you know who's writing it i like her name you're so funny okay on the day before the wedding he went down to the forest to catch some game for the celebrations he returned with a magnificent roebuck on his back and walking toward the village and was walking toward the village His thoughts were not on his bride.

Instead, his mind was wandering in the strangest places. While he was immersed in mysterious dreams, he reached a footbridge. The moon had already risen and was shining. He became annoyed with himself for being so late and from missing the chance to spend the evening before his wedding with his bride. Ooh, a scandal. I like that he's so whimsical, too, though. He's just like singing songs about the underworld and just daydream. going off and like he sounds cute i like him i know i like very the bridge led him over a sparkling

stream and the moon was reflected in its waters what he saw slowed him down and he grew melancholy he kneeled down and put his ear to the surface of the water hoping to hear something he's so poetic he began to hear some sweet melodies the longer they were the more beautiful they sounded the more beautiful they were, the more enchanting they sounded. His ear came closer and closer to the source of the wondrous sounds, and he began to think that it would be lovely to sink down into the waters. Oh, okay. Oh, my God. Are there river sirens? Is that a thing? Maybe.

Why didn't I predict river sirens? I would have been really surprised. I would have been a little upset. I would have been like, you've read this before. He looked down into the depths of the stream. It seemed as if the most beautiful legs he had ever seen were dancing around. Very raised his eyes and saw some beautiful, charming young girls form a circle and dance gracefully to the music. They were all lovely, but one was more lovely than the rest.

He asked her what it was like down there. She reached up to him, put her pale face on his shoulder, and said mournfully, Oh, it's so lovely where we live, so peaceful. And there's more air and more life where we dwell. Will you come with me? Hell, yeah. Jump in there, very. Yeah, I like the way you started it off very airy and kind of dreamy, and then it kind of

descends into like, it's, yeah. Fucking love mermaids. He agreed to go. She added, well, I once lived above ground as well, I once lived above ground as well, Well, you have a bride. How the fuck does she know that? How does she know? Is she stalking him?

Will you be able to forget her? Oh. If you come with me, you won't be able to think about her any longer. Your desire for the earthly bride should draw harsh punishments. I'm imagining like her tongues. And he's just like, she's so beautiful. She looked at him. She looked at him.

the eye in a manner so charming that he embraced her. The ground gave way under his feet and he sank down with her into unknown regions. Back at the village, his bride waited in vain for her beloved. He did not return. People looked everywhere and they found nothing but his musket and the roebuck on the bridge. Ooh. Many years passed. Oh my God. Ooh, a time skip. I really love how this one's written. It's so good. This is fun. One Tuesday, there was a wedding procession making its way to the bridge. One Tuesday, there was a wedding procession making its way to the church. The bride was beautiful and as delightful as a rose.

Her name was Anna Mayala, and her father and mother were walking behind her. The mother looked pale, and it seemed as if she was ailing, although she was not yet that old and retained traces of great beauty. Hmm. Mom's a hearty. just to be clear this is the same anamayala or a or is the mom anamayala and she named and she pulled a girl like Gilmore she pulled a lot of like god damn it is that why I chose this I think it is

did I inadvertently choose something that made me think of that um that's a great question and you will see but that's right, yeah. Okay. Damn, good job, Abby. I'm proud of you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay.

The procession made its way over a bridge. The mother breathed a deep sigh and the father tried to comfort her. Isn't the present, he said to her, better than the past? Isn't it true that we've lived in peace and remained true to each other? And doesn't your daughter, who has your name, look just like you? the mother nestled closer to him nice abby nice thank you all of a sudden the man all of a sudden a man appeared his long hair fluttering wildly in the breeze and he raced down the mountain right up to the bride like a madman he began beating his forehead and then grabbed hold of the girl claiming that

she was his bride oh my god it's true he had abandoned her he said but that was just just yesterday, and she must go to the altar with him. The bridegroom pushed him aside with a strong sexy arms. Ooh, yeah, okay. It doesn't say sexy, but I imagine that. I imagine the he's very... It does say his strong arms. Yeah. The mother was trembling and near collapsed, but the procession kept moving. Can't let one wild man ruin your wedding. You just can't, yeah. There's not, like, we don't need to unpack any of that right now. It's not my day. But also, okay, very, you can't, yeah, I don't know, I guess time, time pass is real different under the water. Oh, I love it.

I love, I love it. Okay. Two days later, the young woman went to the stream to fetch some water. The wild man reappeared, embraced her, and did not want to leave. The woman's husband saw what was happening and chased the madman away. There were reports that he was walking around the village asking about folks who had been dead for years. He was seen at the pastor's house, and after that, he was not seen again. again, and no one heard a thing about him.

Ooh. A Franciscan monk began to appear in the village every year. He was a pale... What the fuck is happening? I know it. I feel like this is one of those stories where there's so much more to it and everything happens so quickly. Yeah.

But anyway. Go on. So a monk begins to appear in the village every year. He was a pale handsome man who seemed to be ailing, and he liked staying at Anna Miala's more than any other house. Whenever he showed up, Anna had a bad feeling, one that she could not explain. Oh, stalker. It came to pass that Anna's husband died.

The monk appeared and he comforted the morning widow. He spoke the following words. My dear lady, life is hard. Look at me, and at all I have suffered, and then you will not feel as much pain as you do now. The woman in mourning looked at him carefully, and she searched his features and paused for a moment. and they became frightened. She recognized Ferry, who had long ago recognized Anna Mayala.

And now it was his turn to be upset. But he took a deep breath and said, I lived down there, way down below, in the domain of sprites. I lived with a beautiful enchanting mermaid as if she were my wife. She was always with me, except on Fridays.

Hell yeah. But she became invisible to me. It's when she went out to go dancing with the girl. She went to go do hot mermaid shit. Yes, she was busy. It's just so random. I might have been completely happy with her love,

but there was an empty feeling in my heart that I could find no satisfaction. Trouble in bed. Yeah. Couldn't satisfy the hot mermaid? For one. she laid her eggs and then she left oh my god that's so much creepier and funnier that's creepy as fuck i'm sorry okay no it gets worse no that wasn't part of it sorry that was like a

featureama joke no i know but that's such a creepy thought like I figured that wasn't part of the actual story he's like why couldn't she be the fish part on the top and the lady part on the bottom it's not your first time is it okay it's such a funny funny thing okay I lost me please hold on very's sob story he couldn't he didn't love her or

felt like something was missing yes and is he and sorry which Anna Maiala are we talking is he talking to he's talking to the OG to the OG he finally he finally realized what was happening and was like okay I'm gonna tell you what happened to me because he's I guess he's a monk now sure yeah he's seen some shit and he's about to tell you all about it for a while the feelings of emptiness tortured me and it could not find a way to make things better my wife was simply not a normal woman her feet were always bound with ribbons and

she never took them off. She gave birth to six children, and their feet were bound as well. The children grew up quickly. Whenever she gave birth to another child, the one before her was no longer an infant. The mystery of the feet tortured me again and again. One evening, while my wife was sleeping, I undid the binding and discovered that she had feet like a goose. Webbed with little claws at the end of each show. Oh, sorry, it's so funny.

Feet like a goose. Feet like a goose. They were webbed with a little claw on the end of each show. Okay, I mean, I, like, okay, first of all, that doesn't sound that bad. He's telling you like a horror story. Yeah, that's also, also, bro, like, I, she's a water sprite who took you to live under... under the river with her, like, I feel like goose feet are like the least of what you can expect. Yeah, she's got to be able to swim fast and see her children.

I'm, I honestly was thinking flippers. I was thinking like a tail, like a tail, yeah, like I just much better. Yeah, honestly, I was like, oh, that's a, that's fine. Well, and the rest of hers, the rest of her woman shaped, great, okay. Mary has got a thing for feet. Okay. The next sentence is, I flew into a rage. Cursing.

Wow. I flew into a rage. Cursing. Once I saw her disgusting feet. I have been catfished. I thought these were going to be pretty, pretty human woman feet. And they were not. Deception

So funny Cursing and hoping that the seventh child would be a human being and would be born with human feet And my wish came true This man Why?

I liked Barry but Not anymore When the mermaids set eyes on the Oh my God This okay Um Maybe content warning actually. Oh, okay.

Or? Child murder. Oh. This part's really dark. So if you don't want to hear something dark and violent, maybe you skip the head, like a minute? 30 seconds. 30 seconds. A minute. Okay.

When the mermaids, when the mermaids set eyes on the child for the first time, she led out a scream of horror that she had become the mother of a crippled being, and she bombarded me with insults. Before long, the other mermaids came to celebrate the birth of the child. And as soon as they saw the child's feet, they became enraged. Everybody's mad about feet in this story. Everybody's mad about feet. Everybody's being like very ablest and eugenicist about feet.

Yes, everybody has different. Like, of course, underwater beings would have a different, like, beauty standard. Absolutely. But they're just kind of like, ew, human feet, kill it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they took the child and tore it to pieces, greedily devouring its little limbs. Oh, my God, they ate it? For human flesh endows the mermaids with beauty and youth for 300 years and makes men fall passionately in love with them.

Okay, I mean, Jesus. Yeah, she's totally a river siren. 100%. Yeah, 100%. With creepy goose feet. With creepy goose feet that eats her own children. It's so, it's so violent. Yeah.

That's the part where I audibly went. What the fuck? Mm-hmm. I could do nothing but watch in silence. My wife touched me with a staff and I fell asleep. When I awoke, I was on the exact spot which I had slid into the water many years before. I watched the wedding procession of your daughter. When I saw her, I thought she was you.

For everything was like a dream, and you know the rest. The pastor was the one who explained everything to me. And he told me that 20 years had gone by when I thought that only a single day had past. When I was at the monastery, I repented my sins. I have brought along some pearls and jewels for your grandchildren. Anna was on her deathbed sometime later. The monk reappeared.

Wow, that was fast. I know. This is like a long story. Taking place over decades. But I'm glad that she finally got an explanation for like what happened to him. Yeah. Anna was on her deathbed sometime later. The monk reappeared.

He kneeled down before the dying woman and put her hands in his. His head sank down. Both turned into corpses. Two white doves were seen flying out the window. The larger one had seven black flakes caught in its feet, which fell off at the window sill when the smaller dove came in contact with it. They turned out to be scraps of paper on which were written the names of the mermaid's seven children. Their father's pious ways had earned them salvation,

and they too were able to enter heaven. Hmm. Huh. This is giving me kind of like an HCA random religious, like, random religious parable at the end. Yeah. They could enter heaven even though they had creepy goose feet. Yep. Except then they didn't have the creepy ghost goose feet because we're eugenicist in the opposite direction of that's, that's a no. No, no.

You can't have those. all right there's just a little bit more it's kind of weird and also very dark okay great do continue one of the grandchildren went to the stream to fetch some water to wash the two corpses prayers have been settled ready for the evening and when she reached the bridge and met a friend who asked her why she'd come for water at such an odd time oh she replied my grandmother just died and her beloved very as well i love that they like still know that they're like had a thing like, oh, her beloved berry. It's like, oh, yeah, that's, grandma was obsessed with that man.

Oh. Vice versa. Doom love. It is cute. Yeah, yeah. It's, I don't know. I really, I do really like this story. We'll talk about it, though.

Yeah. She heard a soft whisper in the air asking, who died? And the waters in the stream began stirring. Huge waves rose into the air and moved toward the house. And water began to flood the room where the two bodies were lying it. rest. The corpses tumbled around the room. Everyone was terrified, and once some holy water was sprinkled on the corpses, the waters withdrew. But six additional corpses were left behind, handsome boys and beautiful girls between the ages of 10 and 17, with their feet bound and holding

their hands, scraps of paper with the words, we have been redeemed. Among the corpses were the feet of a boy whose body was outlined on the floor as if it were a shadow. Next to it was a piece of paper with this explanation. The body has been consumed. The soul endures. It was the mermaid's seventh child, and the feet were all that was left of it. So they didn't eat the feet.

They don't like human feet that much. Yeah, it's real weird. I feel like there's probably a lot more to this story that's not like, yeah. In here. And it ends. On every anniversary of Crazy Vary's death, The stream begins stirring, and the next day waves ripple toward its banks. Since very's death, the moon no longer appears reflected in its waters.

The end. Ooh, that's a fun final detail. I know. Isn't that kind of, that was kind of a cool story. That's a cool story. I really liked that. That was really good. I feel like there's a lot more to it, which obviously is my fix.

I feel like there's more like maybe cultural significance that I don't understand about the feet. or the religious aspects or why the moon no longer reflects in it like maybe some some folklore there about the moon yeah this is one that I actually really would be interested in like some scholarly analysis yeah absolutely absolutely I would want so much more information I also like I mean I guess my fix is also like I could I guess I could do without the sort of tacked on oh and by the way all of the kids souls were redeemed and saved like why weren't they redeemed in the first place like what that was what did they do yeah also I'm a little confused on how he had I'm like they're his children so how did you think that was only one day

yeah like I feel like that's just a really small detail that I'm like there's holes in your story very did you really only think it was like one day, bud? Did you really? I mean, maybe he thought that because he saw, he thought he saw his bride. Maybe, or maybe he thought it was the opposite. Maybe he thought he was under there for like years. But only one day had passed above.

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And then, or maybe just like, maybe he was on drugs. Maybe they kept, maybe he was just dreamy. He was under a spell. Like, I don't know. I love how creepy it is.

It's so. Yeah. I don't know. She tricks them into coming down. It's so spooky. And like that they eat human flesh and that lets them live for 300 years and gives them like crazy beauty. Yes. I love that.

Very creepy. I love, um, I love that it takes place over like a couple decades. Like I think that's really cool. Mm-hmm. And, and it's, and obviously. Honestly, it is, though, it also kind of scratches some of my love for a doomed romance or kind of this weird, yeah, pining sort of situation. I don't know. Was he still young when he came out?

Yeah. Like 20 years had passed, was he still young? Because I don't, it doesn't sound like they, like, got. together after her husband died? No, it doesn't sound like they did. I would be so curious to know kind of how this story changed over the decades. Because it feels like, it's got the feel, it's kind of got the feel of like those Irish fairy tales that it's just kind of like, this is a, this is a like, this is a really ancient story. Yeah.

But the introduction of Christianity being really important. Yes, exactly. region has changed the story significantly from its briefs. Yeah. Like he became a monk. Yeah, like he became a monk. They don't, they're not together anymore. The children's souls need to be saved at the end.

They still called him her beloved berry. I don't know. It's so interesting. I really like it. I would love to see that one dramatized. Yeah. I feel like that can make a really, cool, like, not horror, but like thriller, kind of like.

Thriller. Yeah. Absolutely. I also, because like, there's a stalking element to it too where you're not really sure what various intentions are, but he keeps showing up back at the, back at the house. And the mermaid is still watching him. Yep. And, you know, after like eating their final child together and who knows how these other kids

died. Yeah. To where there's souls. redeemed like ugh yeah so crazy yeah super fun

loved it thank you for that all right points wise would you say very is the protagonist or Anna's yes

I think it's called Anna Maiola yeah I don't I think regardless I don't get um that one there are no important shoes there's important feet if only had said important feet it's so it was so weird yeah super weird wouldn't have occurred to me it will now

that'll be your next one yes absolutely I'm going to keep predicting important feet all right um but you're giving me female as the smartest one no I was going to give you that the protagonist was unhelpful. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like, I mean, the female is probably the smartest one, but there wasn't really a lot of like, not a lot of evidence in the text. Not enough evidence.

I also feel like it's confusing about exactly who the protagonist is, but they were, nobody was very helpful. It was just kind of a sad, it was kind of a tragedy. It was just a sad story. It was really good. I'm just here to bomb me guys out. Yeah, it's fine. And it's, hey, it's your, it's your birthday and we'll cry if you want us to.

But it was spooky and I like that. I like that was like the scariest mermaid story I've ever been able to find for sure. I mean, yeah, I think so. I think like the out and out like bloodiest, like most overt, the mermaid is a monster one, except maybe Merman Rosmer. Oh my God. I love Merman Rosmer. but he haunts my dreams

him in his arms if you're not familiar with Merman Rosemary it's because it was a bonus episode and Mermaid Rosmer had long long arms That creeps me out so much I love that story Oh my gosh

That was some creepy shit Wasn't there another one of my favorites No this was still Mermaid Rosemary It had a lot to do with going out in a boat Over and over again Yeah like all her brothers so he like snatches a girl off of a cliff because he has the world's longest arms He's got extendo arms

I don't know why that like really creeps me out And then like his her brothers each one like comes to try to save her And of course the youngest and cleverest Brother manages it manages it Oh that's a great story I want to re-listen to that one The long arms just like I feel like I've seen like creepy cartoons and stuff

And there's like a game where one of the bad guys has just like really long arms Mermaids are creepy I feel like I see long arms on good guys more often than like on Go Go Gadget Yeah like Inspector Gadget or Mr. Fantastic or Elastic Girl from the Incredibles Oh yeah I'm just imagining his arms are long all the time

Like they don't extend back in oh yeah long arms really freaked me out noodle arms yeah yeah exactly gross yeah just google long long arms i'm okay i will not be doing that e gives me nightmares i don't know why that really freaks me out okay anyway i love this queen though who has goose feet and she's just like ew human feet That's the only reason she invited him down was so he could give her a baby that they could munch on so they could live for another 300 years and be beautiful and trick more global humans into living forever. I respect it.

So spoo-by. Okay. Yeah. Tell me your story. I took your request very seriously. And so I scoured Speak Birds Speak Again for a story about an old woman. Yes. Because we said we wanted more Palestine and we want more old women.

And so I found one in the Palestinian Folktale book. Oh, hell yeah. I don't know. I think every time I read out of this book, I'm probably just going to prefix any story out of this. We already did our geography corner about Palestine. It is now mid-August. Palestine is still undergoing a horrific genocide by Israel. And keep your eyes on it.

keep talking about it, keep sharing about it, keep donating money where it makes sense. Yeah, and genocide. And genocide. Stop fucking killing people and kids and families and stop starving them. Mm-hmm. Fuck. And end of. So we're going to now read from Speak Bird, Speak Again, which is a book of Palestinian Folktales.

is from group two of stories in the family section. And the subsection is brides and bridegrooms. And the story is called the old woman gula. I love that. I love that so much. The old woman gula. How do you spell that? You've essentially got it.

It's G-H-O-U-L-E-H. Okay. Give me three predictions. Oh, can I steal any of the predictions from our patrons? Do it. Check it out. I'm also going to go with the female as the smartest one in the story. Amazing.

I'm going to say the old woman. Okay. Gula is the smartest person in the whole story. I would like to predict that. Okay. instead of cranky wizard has the kind heart deep down, I'm going to say cranky old woman has the kind heart deep down. I'm just going to, yeah, okay.

And my third prediction, the old woman ghoulah. I'm going to predict important food. Love it. This book has a lot of footnotes in it, so I'm kind of flicking through to see if there's any particular. All right. I think, all right, I'm ready.

Okay. I know some of these stories, take more like prep than others? They do and I and I prepped a little before but like there's a cut there wanted to look at some of the other footnotes elsewhere because it keeps like the footnotes in this story reference footnotes from other stories elsewhere in the book and I just wanted to double check those real quick. Okay so the old woman ghoulah.

This book tries to invoke some of like the traditional Palestinian and Arabic storytelling style so it's supposed to begin with the storyteller saying we are blessed with plenty and then you say blessings. around a la willing. Blessings around Allah willing. Or blessings abound, sorry. Oops. Blessings abound Allah willing.

The son of the king took the daughter of one of his father's viziers for his wife. As the girl was sitting in the bridal seat receiving congratulations, an old woman came in and said, niece, may your wedding be blessed. Dang it. I was hoping she would go, that's done. You don't love him. Boo! no she's the opposite of this lady yes okay sorry maybe and may allah bless you too auntie responded the bride

i'm sorry my dear the old woman said but i don't have any money to give you as a wedding present would you accept these glass bracelets oh the old woman that yeah i'm assumed The girl graciously accepted the glass bracelets instead of money, which is very nice of her. Also, why does that lady have to give her anything, though? That's probably just a thing. It's just a thing. So there actually was a footnote for that, but so traditionally relatives and friends of the newlyweds offer money to the bride or groom as part of the wedding ritual. So it's very, very important.

okay it's very rude uh to not to not show up with money okay but she gave her some glass bracelets instead um the old woman then went home waited until midnight and returned little bracelets she said tapping on the door opened the door and the bracelets fell from the girl's wrists as she slept and they opened the door why old woman came in hmm why don't i predict enchanted bracelets I don't know damn it I was on the tip of my tongue

and I didn't say it really enchanted bracelets are on the tip of your tongue enchanted bracelets are always on the tip of my tongue I love that so much as they should be

so cute so the bracelets opened the door for the old woman and she came into the house and she wakes the bride up hush she whispered

Don't let your husband know what's going on Your father just died And so immediately the bride jumped out of bed and went with the old woman If you might say Their house was on the south side of town The old woman took her in an easterly direction Until they arrived at a cave

And when she came into the cave The girl was met by a very small ghoul And a big ghoul Who took away her clothes and her jewelry and devoured her. Damn. Yeah. Yeah, the story's a little fucked up, actually.

I love it. It's fun. It's a little gruesome. Now we return to the king's son. When he awoke in the morning, he found his bride missing. He told his father, and they started arguing with the vizier, accusing him of having taken his daughter back in secret. Another minister happened to be there.

And he said, I swear by Allah, oh, king, your son can have my daughter. Please don't get upset. There is a footnote here about giving away a daughter. Yeah, you can have mine. I mean, I imagine in this part of the story, perhaps he would go and, like, kill the ghoul and save the princess out of the ghoul's stomach. If it were a Ruth Manning-Sander story, that's how I imagine it would happen. But that is not the case in this story. In this case, he just says like, oh, did your first bride go missing?

You can have my daughter. We're not really concerned about finding the original. The footnote for this one is, in actual practice, a father or brother may sometimes offer his daughter or his sister for a wife under special circumstances. As for example, when another man loses his wife or as a reward for a great achievement. I am not Sorry A prize to be won Absolutely

Tell him Jasmine Fucking princesses Being fucking Yeah Marriage Horrible Yeah Currency

Sexy medieval attitude Essentially So they sent for the katie And drew up the marriage contract Instead of wearing white Like last time This time the old woman Were green

The footnote there is white is the color of purity green is the color of Islam both colors are worn by pious older women especially after they've completed the haj and for those of you who don't know the haj is the pilgrimage that uh muslims must make at least once in their lifetime to mecca so anyway so she's wearing green this time because she's like oh I'm just a nice pious good old woman. Nice old lady with a kind heart. With a kind heart.

And too very hungry ghouls at home. It's ghoul's night. It's ghoul's night. That's hilarious. So she brought a green bead with her and she said to the bride, you must forgive me niece, but I don't have any money as a wedding present. Please keep this bead to protect you from the evil eye.

another footnote according to popular belief all charms to ward off the evil eye whether decorations on houses beads worn by children or beads hanging from cars rearview mirrors or the necks of domestic animals must be blue so giving her a green bead is like suspicious yeah yeah if you know you know i kind of love that that's a great small detail and a great footnote absolutely because it's like okay that's really cluing me into like her giving her a green bead is supposed to be a like a red flag for the for the listener um believing what the old woman said the girl took the bead and hid it in her dress when all the guests had left she brought it out and put it on the table by her bed along with her golden bracelets just before dawn the old woman came back to the bride's house opened the door beadling she said beadling opened the door the bead came down and opened the door and the woman came in and woke up the girl i know it's very cute i love her enchanted jewelry me too don't let your husband know she whispered but your mother is on her deathbed and the girl rose up to go with her wear all your gold things suggested the old woman the people expecting you know you're a bride. And there's another footnote here saying the gula in this tale is distinguished by her cleverness.

Using tricks to gain her ends, she immediately secures the trust of the first two brides. Indeed, they trust her to such an extent that they wear jewelry to their parents' deathbeds something cultural norms do not allow. So like again, it's another red flag. she's saying, oh, put on your jewelry to your mother's deathbed. That's not rude or weird. We're totally going there. Is Gula, like the word for witch or something?

No, it's just a different word for ghoul. Okay. So ghouls are traditionally like Arabic folklore monsters. Yeah. And they're usually associated with graveyards, eating human flesh. etc. Cool as fuck. Yeah.

In the morning, the husband awoke to find that his wife had disappeared. He had a fight with her father accusing him of having taken his daughter back. And so a third minister offered his daughter.

This time, however, they decided to patrol all the roads leading out of town. They also stationed watchmen in all the streets. And that evening, the groom went into his bride. The old woman came this time

wearing a blue dress and carrying a citron. My dear, she said to the bride, I don't have any money to give you as a present. Take this citron instead. This girl was cleverer than the others who did not say anything to their husbands. Keep the citron for me, she said to her husband. Who gave it to you? he asked.

It was the woman in the blue dress. Ah, yes, he exclaimed. This woman is a gula. what i'm sorry i know oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah we all know about her she's crazy oh that gula that keeps showing up she hangs out sometimes he stuck a knife in the citron and then they went to sleep and in the middle of the night the old woman returned and knocked on the door little citron little citron she called out open the door for me how can i open with a knife stuck in my heart

asked the citron so dramatic this little citron it's a very dramatic citron actually what even is a citron i assume it's some kind of gemstone yeah i was imagining it like um the yeah the gems i was like how do you stick a knife in that or is it oh it's not it's it's a large citrus fruit like a lemon Oh, okay. That makes more sense that a knife would be into it. I was thinking of the crystal. Yeah. Like the color.

Yeah. Okay. It's a fruit. Oh, I'm thinking of citrine crystal. Yeah. Got it. Not quite the same. And I thought that that made more sense, like in my brain with like glass bracelets, a

green bead. Yeah, and then another glass thing or like... So I was thinking another, yeah, like piece of crystal or a gemstone or something, but... Me too. No, okay, it's a fruit. Dramatic little fruit. A very dramatic little fruit. So the fruit's just kind of like, how can I open the door with a knife stuck in my heart?

And so the newlyweds woke up at that. The bridegroom removed the knife from the citron and it came down and opened the door. And when the gula came in, they pretended. to be sleeping. Chicky, chicky. My dear niece, said the old woman to the bride. You better get up. Your only brother has just died.

Signaling her husband, the bride got up and went with the woman. A little later, he too rose from bed and blew the whistle to alert the watchman who followed the old woman the moment they saw her. She started running with the bride right behind her and the guards following until they caught up with her just before she reached her cave with a dagger they rent open her dress and what did they find but that she had a goat's tail and donkey's hoops i know and from her tail up she looked exactly like a human being when she entered her cave her eyes contracted and sparkled like flames she sounds awesome yeah she's a very cool monster hang on there's another

that says on flames and ghouls check tail 33 it is characteristic of ghouls that their feet make sparks as they walk ghouls are generally associated with flames sparks and redness hell yeah badass hell yeah

and although ghouls can take any shape they usually appear as in this tale half human and half animal mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm cool monster love it stands to reason the small gula and the big ghoul started to bray the guards entered the cave on the heels of the original gula along with the bridegroom and the ministers who had lost their daughters they killed all three ghouls and split their bellies open with their daggers then gathering up their daughter's clothes and the gold heaped in the cave they went home and there we left them and came back the end all right okay how would you fix that story. I mean, my fix with any story in this book is going to be free Palestine.

My only other fix would be, I would have loved to have seen a little more concern about the missing girls. Yeah, for sure. Like, it's fine if they're still dead at the end of the story, you know, a horrible misfortune happened to them. But I kind of feel like everybody was like, like, because, you know, the prince goes like, you stole my wife. And then, you know, his father. get you another one. Oh, we'll get you another one. And they never really think about it beyond that. So I think that's my only other fix of the story is like a little more concerned for

the missing girls would be great. But other than that, I really, really enjoyed it. Yeah. That was great. I also really enjoyed that. Do you have a different fix? I really love the old woman Gula and I would love for her and her ghouls to, I don't know, just kill as many people as possible.

Maybe if she What if they just killed Killed the prince and like you know what I mean? Like, ooh, like the prince tries to solve this problem on his own. Yeah, and then they just eat him. And she's like, oh, they must have figured us out. We better skip town and they just go somewhere else. Oh my God, like they pack up their cave and they just move to a different kingdom

and just start doing the same thing. I love it. And they've got the money to move because they keep making these girls wear all of their bridal jewelry. Yeah, just keep like a wreaking havoc just elsewhere. One town over. Maybe. You know, have it end in a mysterious fashion.

I love it. It's just like a mysterious run of deaths of fancy people with lots of jewelry. Yeah. Hashtag villain sympathizer. 100%. Eat the rich. Eat the rich. You're right.

We got to get back to our roots. I appreciate you bringing this up. Yeah, I just love that for her. That was very fun. You got two points, I believe. Because the old woman's cleverness is highlighted in the footnotes. It's like, this is an especially clever ghoul. And there was important food.

There was important food. It's the people. I mean, that I was thinking the lemon. Oh, that's true. Yeah, that's important, too. But no, no, the daughter, the original, the first two brides were very important food. I know. Aw.

I like it because it works on both ways in the sense that they're important because they become food, but also they were nobility. So they were also very important food. Yes, exactly. Like it was VIP food. Mm-hmm. They have especially good taste for ghoul. They only want to eat the elite. Yes.

I love it. They only want the people that have been eating the milk and the honey. I appreciate that. Me too. You know what? I'm on board. I'm down with your fix. That's the one.

That and of course, free Palestine. And free Palestine. Yeah, absolutely. Well, dang, I think those were really great. Yeah, I think those were fun. I'm going to just do, I'm going to do one more very, very short one, just because, like, I'm not going to, it's, it's, it's one of those repetition stories that I'm not going to read the whole thing. Okay.

Again, um, it's called the old woman and her cat. Ooh, yes, please. Do you want to make any predictions? You may give me one prediction for the old woman and her cat, because I'm pretty much going to skip most of it and just tell you the beginning of the end. Okay. Uh, uh, the old woman and her cat, uh, uh, my prediction is good kitty. Good kitty. Love it.

Good kitty. Okay. So the footnote for this one that I'm going to read you is right there in the title. The cat is liked by Muslims, it is said for the following reasons. When the prophet was a camel driver, he was asleep one day in the shade of some bushes in the desert. A serpent came out of a hole and would have killed him had not a cat that happened to be prowling about pounced upon and destroyed it. When the prophet awoke, he saw what had happened, and calling the cat to him fondled and blessed it. From thenceforth, he was very fond of cats.

So when cats appear in a Muslim or Arabic folktale, it's usually like pretty awesome. It's usually a good thing. Okay. I'm glad because. They like cats. I was immediately going to be like, eh, they probably hate cats. Nope. That's also why I like the story.

I'm just kind of like, oh, yeah, culturally, culturally cats are regarded is pretty cool. yeah i love that because in a lot of stories they're always like little demons or something which is also fun which is also fun and and absolutely a valid read on cats but i 100% but i do think that it's funny that in like european folklore cats are kind of like devilish or a bad omen or at the very least highly mischievous um and like not not here to do nice things for you um where like, I like, so I like other traditions that hold cats is like helpful and a good, a good sign. I mean, that's how I feel. I love cats. Every time I see a cat, I'm like, my day has just gotten better. It's a good, it's a good omen for how the rest of the day is going to go. I love it. So this is the

old woman and her cat. Once there was an old woman who had a cat. One day, she brought some milk home and the cat came and lapped it up feeling angry she cut off his tail what i know it's very intense oh no meow meow he cried give me back my tail give me back my milk demanded the old woman and how am i going to bring the milk back for you he asked go bring it from that you over there she answered. And so now the story follows the usual pattern of the cat visits everyone and their mother doing favors, getting things that the previous person asked for and then going back with everything. He visits all these people. You know, he says like, oh, you know, so and so give me this and this is for that person. And then the you will give me some milk. And then the milk is for

the old woman and the old woman will sew my tail back on. And we progress through the story. And so the final couple paragraphs is, so bringing a bucket full of manure, the cat gave it to the baker woman, and she gave him two loaves of bread. Taking the bread, he gave it to the cobbler, and the cobbler gave him the shoes,

which he gave to the plowman who plowed under the tree. The tree then gave him a branch, which he gave to the you, who gave him the milk. Taking the milk with him, he went running back to the old woman. Meow, meow, he cried. Why don't you sell my tail back on? The old woman took the milk and sewed the cat's tail back on

and they became friends again. Aw. The bird of this tail has flown. Are you ready for the next one? The end. Wait, okay. Why did you need a branch, though? She doesn't say.

That's partially why I skipped over. So mysterious. It's very mysterious. It's like none of these people explain what they need these items for. That's so fair. That you just says, I want to branch from that tree over there.

And the tree says, you know, go tell that plowman to come over here and plow under me. Mm-hmm. Well, I was feeling really optimistic, but I don't think that was a good kitty. Drinking her milk. Yeah. Well, then he went around and he ran all these errands, but I guess only so she'd sew his tail back on. Yeah. I don't know.

But he and the old woman are friends, and that's nice. She cut off his tail. That's a little reactionary, you know. I agree. A little overkill. You could have just asked the cat to go do all of these things to get to your milk back. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know. It seems like a little too much. Just saying. I don't know if it's going to look right after you sew it back on. She's probably very good with the needle. She's doing it forever. Cute. Well, you found two old women in that story and I love it.

I did. I found two old Palestinians. many and women, as promised. You really nailed it. Thank you. I did. You're welcome. I appreciate you.

Oh, did you have a fix for the story? Um, yeah, probably like, don't just ask him nicely first before you cut his tail. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Actually, after talking to you, my new fix with the story is everyone explains what they need that item for. Yeah, like, why does the, you need a branch? Yeah. I'm deeply curious what the you wants a branch for.

Maybe I don't know enough about sheep. To smack the old woman. Maybe, oh my gosh. For cutting off his tail. Maybe. I think that was a great episode. I think we really nailed that one. I agree.

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We're very lucky. And so Anna Mayala was a much longer fairy tale and more in depth. And I got more information about, I feel like that's really one. one of our most classic fixes. It's just more info. I want a deeper story. We want more. I want to know more about crazy, very, what happened down there, how long he was gone for.

Absolutely. Yeah. And in the old woman, Gula, she and her children realized they've been made after killing that last prince, and then they pack up their cave and they move into a different town where they just eat more rich people. Good for them. We stand. and all of the characters that the cat in the second tale talk to tell the cat why they need that stuff

and all of our curiosity is satisfied and also as ever free Palestine and they all lived happily ever after the end the end