Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Stories - Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and Snow White

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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. Welcome to Sleep Gove, the podcast and YouTube channel to get a great night's sleep. This episode consists of three of the classic fairy tales of snow white, red riding hood, and sleeping. beauty. They've been taken from sources which have reduced some of the adult themes which may not

Starting point is 00:02:17 have been conducive to sleep. I hope you listen to them and have a fantastic night's sleep. Big thank you to everyone who has been leaving great reviews on the Apple podcast app and who have been subscribing to the YouTube channel. Please listen in a place. where you can safely go to sleep. Let's begin to Red Riding Hood. There was once such a sweet little maid who lived with her father and mother in a pretty little cottage

Starting point is 00:02:58 at the edge of the village. It was another pretty little cottage. Her grandmother, everybody loved this little girl. Her grandmother perhaps loved her most of all. a great many pretty things. Once she gave her a red cloak with the hood which she always wore

Starting point is 00:03:30 so people called her Little Red Riding Hood. One morning Little Red Riding Hood's mother said Put on your things and go and see your grandmother she has been ill. Take along this basket for her

Starting point is 00:03:51 But her, it was a bright and sunny morning, and Red Riding Hood was so happy, but at first she wanted to dance through the wood, two wildflowers, which she loved so well, and she stopped to pick a bunch for her grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood wandered from her path and was stooping to pick a flower, when from behind her, a gruff voice said, Good morning, Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood turned around and saw a great, big

Starting point is 00:04:44 but Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked beast the wolf was so she was not afraid What have you got in that basket Little Red Riding Hood Eggs and butter and cake Mr Wolf Where are you going with them Little Red Riding Hood.

Starting point is 00:05:10 I am going to my grandmother, who was ill, Mr. Wolf. Where does your grandmother live? Little Red Riding Hood? That path, past the wide rose bushes, and through the gate at the end of the wood, Mr. Wolf.

Starting point is 00:05:31 Then Mr. Wolf again said, Good morning, and set off and Little Red Riding Hood again, went in search of wild flowers. At last he reached the porch, covered with flowers. Little Red Riding Hood pressed the latch, but she jumped out of bed into a closet, put on the cap, which she had dropped.

Starting point is 00:06:33 Little Red Riding Hood, knocked at the door and walked in saying, Good morning, Grandmother. I have brought you eggs, butter, here is a bunch of flowers I gathered in the wood. As she came nearer the bed, she said, What big ears you have, Grandmother, what big eyes you have, Grandmother, better to see you with, my dear. But, Grandmother, what a big nose you have, what a big mouth you have, the better to eat you up with, my dear.

Starting point is 00:07:29 He said as he sprang at Little Red Riding Hood. Just at that moment, Little Red Riding Hood's father was passing the cottage. and he heard her scream. He rushed in and with his axe chopped off Mr. Wolf's everybody was happy that Little Red Rodding Hood

Starting point is 00:07:52 had escaped the wolf. Then Little Red Rodding Hood's father carried her home. Once upon a time there was a little princess She could speak to her When she looked into it Fairest Lady

Starting point is 00:08:41 He was very beautiful But her snowdrop She became still more lovely then her stepmother. But he was too tender-hearted to do this. But until she came to the house of seven little dwarfs. He was so kind to take her in, live with them. She used to make their seven little beds.

Starting point is 00:09:44 Until the queen found out from her mirror that Snowdrop was still alive, as it always told the truth. It still told her Snowdrop was the fairest lady. in the land, she decided that snowdrop must die. So she dyed her face, dressed up like an old peddler. And in this disguise, she went to the home of the seven dwarfs for sale, peeped out of the window and said, Good day, Mother, what have you to sell? Good laces, fine laces, laces of every colour and she held out one

Starting point is 00:10:50 that was made of gay silk bought the pretty lace child you are a sight let me lace you properly for once Snowdrop placed herself before the old woman who laced her so quickly and so tightly

Starting point is 00:11:16 that she took away Snowdrop's breath and she fell down as though dead Seven dwarfs came home. They found that she was lace so tight, like a different... She journeyed and used Snowdrop to let her comb her hair, the poison comb in her hair. Snowdrop fell down as though dead, and suspecting the bad queen, began to look for the course, soon finding the comb. No sooner had they removed it.

Starting point is 00:12:43 Then Snowdrop came upon the Queen's return. She found by asking her mirror that Snowdrop still lived. So she disguised herself a third time, poisoned apple. As the little princess took a bite of it, it stuck in her throat. So I was so sorry for him they consented. Prince's servants were to carry the coffin away when they stumbled. when they stumbled and fell over the root of a tree. Snowdrop received such a violent jerk

Starting point is 00:14:06 that the poisonous apple was jerked right out of her throat as she sat up alive and well again. Of course she married the prince, and she, her husband, and the good little dwarfs lived happily ever after. But the cruel stepmother came to a bad end was even sorry for her. It's the classic tale of sleeping beauty. King and Queen, once upon a time, reigned in a country, a great way off,

Starting point is 00:14:50 where there were in those days things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in an every day, but though they had been married many years, they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed. by the side of the river. At the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish that had thrown itself out of the water and lay gasping. lifted its head out of the water and said your wishes, and it shall be fulfilled your kindness to me. You will soon have a daughter. The little fish had foretold, soon came to bad,

Starting point is 00:16:15 had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast to the child to all the land. So he asked his kinsman, the queen said, I will have the fairies also that they might be kind and good to our little daughter. Now there were thirteen fairies in the queen. 13 fairies in the kingdom, but as the king and queen had only 12 golden dishes for them to eat out of, they were forced to leave one of the fairies without asking her. So 12 fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels

Starting point is 00:17:17 on her feet. Princess, leave her goodness, another beauty, another richard. and so on till she had all that was good in the world, just as eleven of them had done, blessing her, always was heard in the courtyard, and presently up she came into the dining hall. Now, as she had not been asked to the feast, she was very golded the king and queen very much, and set to work to take her revenge. So she cried out, The king's daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle,

Starting point is 00:18:51 who had not given her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but she could soften its mischief. So her gift was that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years. However, the king, still to save his dear child, altogether from the threatened evil, so he ordered that all spindles in the kingdom should be bought up. First 11 fairies, meantime fulfilled.

Starting point is 00:19:43 The princess was so beautiful. She was fifteen years old. The king and queen were not at home, and she was left alone in the palace. So she roved about it by herself and looked at all the rooms and chambers, till at last she came to an old tower, to which there was a narrow staircase. There was a golden key. Good mother, said the princess, what are you doing there? spinning, said the old lady, and nodded her head, humming a tune, while Buzz went the wheel.

Starting point is 00:21:03 How prettily that little thing turns round, said the princess, and took the spindle and began to try and spin. But scarcely had she touched it, before the fairy's prophecy was fulfilled. The spindle wounded her And she fell down Deep sleep And the king who had just come home And all that court Felled asleep too

Starting point is 00:21:49 Slept in the stables The pigeons On the housetop And the very flies slept upon the walls The fire on the half Left off blazing and went to sleep The jack stopped and the spit that was turning about, with a goose upon it for the king's dinner, stood still.

Starting point is 00:22:22 And the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen boy by the hair, to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep. He was sly tasting the ale, fell asleep with a chug at his lips, and thus hedge of form and every year it was surrounded and hidden so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen

Starting point is 00:23:15 under time, time, several king's sons came and tried to break the wonderful princess called Briar Rose to sleep or two how he had heard from his grandfather

Starting point is 00:24:37 that many, many princes had come to break through the thicket but they had all stuck fast in it go and see this briarose and try to hinder him but he was bent upon going that very day the hundred years were ended

Starting point is 00:25:13 and as the prince came to the thicket he saw nothing but beautiful flowering shrubs through which he went with ease They shut in after him As thick as ever As to the palace He looks asleep

Starting point is 00:25:40 And the horses were standing in the stables At the pigeons fast asleep With their heads Were sleeping on the walls The spit was standing still At the jug of his lip To drink a draught was still holding up her to beat the boy.

Starting point is 00:26:37 John's still father was so still that he could hear every breath he drew. Till at last he came to the old tower and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was and there she lay fast asleep on the couch by the window she looked so beautiful

Starting point is 00:27:05 that he could not take his eyes off her so he stooped down and gave her a kiss smiled upon him, put together and soon the king and queen also awoke shook themselves and the dogs chas, the pigeons took their heads from under their wings, eyes on the walls buzzed again, the fire in the kitchen

Starting point is 00:28:05 blazed up with a goose for the king's dinner upon it, which his draught of ale. Heed went on plucking the fowl, and the cook gave the boys on his ear. Some prior rose were married. The wedding feast was given, happily together, lives long.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Stories - Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and Snow White

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