Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Autumn Fairytales and Poems

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Starting point is 00:01:16 or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti if you have you'll probably like the History of Egypt podcast every week we explore tales of this ancient culture The history of Egypt is available wherever you get your podcasting fix. Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. Hello and welcome to Sleep Cave with me, Christopher Fitton. With autumn upon us, I'm going to read some autumn fairy tales and a few short poems. I did this last year, and it seemed that a lot of people really enjoy it.

Starting point is 00:02:06 So with autumn on the way, please get cozy in bed, get relaxed and get ready to go to sleep. Also, please remember to subscribe. Thank you. Begin. Why the autumn leaves a red long ago. No one but animals lived upon the earth. And sometimes they would hold great councils. the bear would be there.

Starting point is 00:02:42 The bear with his sharp claws and his shiny coat and his big big growl and the deer who were so proud of his antlers for they came out of his head like trees and all the animals and all the birds

Starting point is 00:03:02 would be present at the great council little turtle would go there too She was so small that she did not like to speak to anyone. But she often wished do some good deeds. What could such a little creature as I do? Anyway, she thought, I'll be on the watch, and it may be that sometime there will be a chance for me to do something for my people. Little Turtle

Starting point is 00:03:41 Never forgot about that good deed She had planned to perform One day the opportunity came to her She was at the council And the animals were saying It is so dark here We have only the snowlight to see by It is gloomy too

Starting point is 00:04:03 Couldn't we make her light And place it up in skyland they asked. Little Turtle said, Please let me go up to Skyland. I am sure that I can make her light shine up there. They said that she might go and they called Dark Cloud to carry Little Turtle there.

Starting point is 00:04:28 Dark Cloud came. Little Turtle saw that thunder and lightning were in Dark Cloud. And when she reached Skyland, she made the sun from lightning and placed him in the sky. The sun could not move because he had no life and all the world underneath was too hot to live upon. What shall we do? The animals asked one another, someone said.

Starting point is 00:05:00 We must give the sun life and spirit and then he will move about in the sky. So they gave him life and spirit, and he moved about in the sky. Mud Turtle took a hole through the earth, for the sun to travel through. Little Turtle made a wife for him out of some other lightning from dark cloud. She was the moon. Their little children were the stars that played all over Skyland. All this time, little turtle was taking.

Starting point is 00:05:39 care of Skyland, the animals below called her, she who takes care of Skyland, and she was very happy because she was doing her good deed. Some of the animals became jealous of little turtle, especially the deer who were so proud of his antlers. One day, deer said to Rainbow, Rainbow, please take me up to Skyland where the Little Turtle lives. Rainbow did not know whether it would be quite right to take deer up to Little Turtle's house. But he said, in the winter, when I rest upon the big mountain by the lake, then I will take you. This made the dear glad. He did not tell anyone about the promise of Rainbow or winter long.

Starting point is 00:06:40 he waited and watched near the big mountain for Rainbow to come, but Rainbow did not come to him. In the spring one day, Deer saw Rainbow beside the lake. Rainbow, he asked, why did you not keep your promise to me? Rainbow made him another promise, come to me by the lake when you see me in the thick, fog, he said. The deer kept this promise a secret too, because he hoped to go to Skyland alone. Day after day, he waited beside the lake.

Starting point is 00:07:25 One day when the thick fog was rising from the lake, deer saw the beautiful rainbow. Rainbow made an arch from the lake to the big mountain. Then a shining light fell about the deer, and he saw a straight path shining with all the colours of the rainbow. It led through a great forest. Follow the beautiful path through the great forest, rainbow said. The deer entered the shining pathway, and it led him straight to the house of Little Turtle in Skyland. And the deer went about Skyland.

Starting point is 00:08:11 everywhere. When the Great Council met, deer was not there. The deer is not come to Skyland. Where is the deer? They asked. Hulk flew about the air everywhere and could not find the deer in the air. Wolf searched the deep woods and could not find deer in the forests. When dark cloud brought a little turtle to the council Little Turtle told them how rainbow had made a path for deer to climb to skyland There it is now, said Little Turtle The animals looked over the lake and saw there

Starting point is 00:08:57 The beautiful pathway They had never seen it before Why did not deer wait for us? All of us should have gone to skyland together, they said. Now, Brown Bear was determined to follow that pathway the very next time he should see it. One day when he was all alone, near the lake he saw the shining path that led through the great forest. Soon he found himself in skyland. The first person he met was the deer.

Starting point is 00:09:36 Why did you leave us? Why did you not go to the land of Little Turtle without us? Why did you not wait for us? He asked the deer. The deer shook his antlers angrily. What right have you to question me? No one but the wolf may question why I came. I will kill you for your impertinence.

Starting point is 00:10:04 The deer arched his neck. He poised his antler head. His eyes blazed with fury. The bear was not afraid. He stood up, his claws were sharp and strong. His horse growls sounded all over Skyland. The battle of the deer and the bear shook Skyland. The animals looked up from Earth. Who will go? Who will go to Skyland and the bear? The animals looked up from Earth. Who will go? Who will go to Skyland and forbid the deer to fight? I will go, said the wolf. I could run faster than anyone. So Wolf ran along the shining pathway, and in a little while he had reached the place of the battle. Wolf made deer stop fighting, deer's antlers were covered with blood, and when he shook them, great dry. fell down, down through the air, and splashed against all leaves of the forest.

Starting point is 00:11:11 And the leaves became a beautiful red. So in the autumn, when you see the leaves turning red, you may know that it is because in the long ago the deer and the bear fought a great battle in skyland. Little turtle, who was doing her good deed, the anxious leaf. Once upon a time, a little leaf was heard to sigh and cry, as leaves often do when a gentle wind is about. And the twig said, What is the matter, little leaf? And the leaf said, The wind just told me that one day it would pull me off and throw me down to lie on the ground. The twig told it to the branch on which it grew. and the branch told it to the tree.

Starting point is 00:12:10 And when the tree heard it, it rustled all over and sent back word to the leaf. Do not be afraid. Hold on tightly and you shall not go till you want to. And so the leaf stopped sighing, but went on nestling and singing. Every time the tree shook itself and stirred up. all its leaves. The branches shook themselves and the little twig shook itself and the little leaf danced up and down merrily, as if nothing could ever put it off the branch. And so it grew all summer long until October, and when the bright days of autumn came, their little leaf saw all the leaves around becoming very beautiful. Some were yellow and some were scarlet and some were

Starting point is 00:13:11 striped with both colours. Then it asked the tree what it meant and the tree said all these leaves are getting ready to fly away and they have put on these beautiful colours because of joy Then the little leaf began to want to go And grew very beautiful in thinking of it And when it was very gay in colour It saw that the branches of the tree Had no colour in them And so the leaf said

Starting point is 00:13:45 O branches why are you lead colour And we golden The branches replied We must keep on our work clothes For our life is not done But your clothes are for our clothes of a holiday because your tasks are over. Just then a little puff of wind came and a leaf let go without thinking of it.

Starting point is 00:14:08 And the wind took it up and turned it over and over and whirled it like a spark of fire in the air. And then it fell gently down under the fence among hundreds of other leaves and began to dream. A dream so beautiful. that perhaps it will last forever. Autumn fires by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the other gardens and all up the veil.

Starting point is 00:14:44 From the autumn bonfires, see the smoke trail. Pleasant summer over and all the summer flowers. The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons Something bright in all Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall To an autumn leaf

Starting point is 00:15:12 We shan up of shimmering gold Slip down from your ways In the branches Some fairy will loosen your hole We shall up of shimmering gold Spill dew on your boughs And unfold Silk sails for the fairest of launches

Starting point is 00:15:34 We shunner of shimmering gold Slip down from your ways in the branches How the chestnut burrs became In the woods of the peccanic There once roamed a very discontented porcupine He was forever fretting He complained that everything was wrong till it was perfectly scandalous

Starting point is 00:16:05 and the great spirit getting tired of his grumbling said You and the world I have made Don't seem to fit It is easier to change you You don't like the trees You are unhappy on the ground And think everything is upside down So I'll turn you inside out

Starting point is 00:16:33 And put you in the water This was the origin of the shad. After Manitou had turned the old porcupine into a shad, the young ones missed their mother and crawled up into a high tree to look for her coming. Manitou happened to pass that way, and they all chattered their teeth at him, thinking themselves safe. They were not wicked, only ill-trained. Some of them quite good, but oh so ill-trained, and they chattered and groaned as Manitou came nearer.

Starting point is 00:17:22 Remembering then that he had taken their mother from them, he said, you look very well at there, you little bogeys, so you'd better stay there for always and be part of the tree. This was the origin of the chestnut berse. They hang like a lot of little porcupines on the tree crotches. They are spiny and dangerous and utterly without manners. And yet most of them have a good little heart inside the merry wind. The merry wind came racing, adown the hills one day,

Starting point is 00:18:05 in gleeful frolic chasing, though rustling leaves away. In the clouds of red and yellow, He whirled the leaves along, and then the Johnny Fellow. He sang a cheery song. The merry wind was weary, and at last of fun and play. His voice grew faint and eerie, and thoughtfully died away. Far off a crow was calling. It was almost time for winter to come.

Starting point is 00:18:55 The little birds had all gone far away, for they were afraid of the cold. There was no green grass in the fields, and there were no pretty flowers in the gardens. Many of the trees had dropped all their leaves. Cold winter, with its snow and ice, was coming in the weeks ahead. At the foot of an old oak tree,

Starting point is 00:19:26 some sweet little violets were still in blind, Dear old oak, said they, winter is coming. We are afraid that we shall die of the cold. Do not be afraid, little ones, said the oak, close your yellow eyes in sleep and trust in me. You have made me glad many a time with your sweetness. Now I will take care that the winter shall do you no harm. So the violets closed their pretty eyes and went to sleep. They knew that they could trust the kind old oak. And their tree softly dropped, red leaf after red leaf,

Starting point is 00:20:15 upon them until they were all covered. The cold winter came, with its snow and ice, but it could not harm their little vionets, safe under the friendly leaves of the old oak. they slept and dreamed happy dreams until the warm rains of spring came and waked them again. No more the summer flowerette charms. The leaves will soon be sere, the tree. The tree's early leaf buds were bursting their brown. Shall I take them away? said the frost sweeping down.

Starting point is 00:21:08 No dear, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown Pray the tree Rootlet to crown The tree bore its blossoms And all the birds sang Shall I take them away Said the wind as it swung

Starting point is 00:21:28 No dear leave them alone Till the berries here have grown Said the tree While the leaflets all quivering hung The tree bore its fruit In the mid-summer glow So the girl May I gather thy berries or no

Starting point is 00:21:48 Yes dear All thou can't see Take them the tree The door was shot as doors should be Yet Jack Frost has got in you see And left your window's silver-white He must have waited till you slept and not a single word he spoke,

Starting point is 00:22:26 but pencilled over the pains and crept, away before you woke. You cannot see the trees, nor the fields that stretch beyond the lane. There are things than these, his fingers traced on every pain. Rocks and castles towering high, hills and dales and streams and fields,

Starting point is 00:22:54 and knights in arms, The nodding plumes are the little boats, big ships with sails spread to the breeze, and yonder palm trees wait overseas, and butterflies with gauzy wings, and herds of cows and flocks of sheep, and fruit and flowers, and creeping softly, and a jack frost takes every breath you breathe. Think about.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Autumn Fairytales and Poems

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