Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Story: Rapunzel - The Original Grimm Fairytale

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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. With me, Christopher Fitton. Tonight I'm continuing reading out some classic fairy tales, and I'll be reading out Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm.

Starting point is 00:02:04 Please get as comfortable as you can. Begin. There was once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their house, from which a splendid garden could be seen. It was full of the most beautiful flowers and her. herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. One day, the woman was

Starting point is 00:03:00 standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful Rapunzel Rampian flower. It looked so fresh and green that she longed for it. She quite pined away and began to look pale and miserable. Then her husband was alarmed and he asked, What ails you, dear wife? Ah, she replied, if I can't eat some of the rampian, which is in the garden behind her house,

Starting point is 00:03:42 I shall die. The man who wife die, bring her some other Rampian yourself. Let it cost what it will. He clambered down over the wall, hastily clutched a handful of Rampian and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it

Starting point is 00:04:15 and ate it greenily. It tasted so good to her, so very good that the next day she knolled for it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest, her husband descend into the garden. The evening therefore, he let himself down again. But when he had clumbered down the wall, he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him. she said with an angry look,

Starting point is 00:04:58 Descend into my garden And steal my Rumpian like a thief. You shall suffer for it. Ah, answered he, Let mercy take the place of justice. I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your Rumpian from the window And felt such a longing for it

Starting point is 00:05:21 As she would have died if she had not got some to eat. Then the Enchantress allowed her anger to be softened and said to him, If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away as much rampion as you will. You must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world. It will be well treated. I will care for it like a mother, consented. to everything. And when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once,

Starting point is 00:06:06 gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her. Repensal grew into the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was 12 years old, the Enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest and had neither stairs nor door. But quite at the top was a little window. When the Echantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried, Rapunzel, Repunzel, let down your hair to me. Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold. And when she heard the voice of the Echantress, she unfastened her braided tresses,

Starting point is 00:06:57 wound them around one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair for Chantress. After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard a voice, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed our time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted to climb up to her and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart that every day he went out into the forest and listened. to it, when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there. Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me. Let down. Chantras climbed up to her,

Starting point is 00:08:27 the ladder, by which one mounts, or try my fortune, said he, and the next day, when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let your hair to me. Immediately, the hair fell down, and the king's son, Clownsul was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes had never yet a hound, came to her. But the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend. and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest,

Starting point is 00:09:19 and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, he will love me more, more than old dame God, And she said, yeah. She said, I will willingly,

Starting point is 00:09:53 but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk. Every time you come is ready. They agree that until the time he should come to her every evening. For the old woman,

Starting point is 00:10:21 the enchantress remarked nothing of this. Until once, Rapunzel said to her, take me Dame Gothel. how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up he is with me in a moment. Ah, you wicked child, cried the enchantress. What do I hear you say?

Starting point is 00:10:48 I thought I had separated you from all the world. And yet you have to sin in her anger. She clutched Rapunzel's beautiful dresses, wrapped them twice around her left hand. squeezed a pair of scissors with a right, and snip snap, they were cut into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery. On the same day that she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which had cut off to the hook of Punzel Rapunzel let down your hair to me. But instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked venomous looks. She cried, you will never see her again.

Starting point is 00:12:28 He'd himself with pain. He escaped with his knife, put the thorns into which he fell, wondered quite blind about the forest. Ain't nothing but roots and berries. Thus he roamed about in misery for some years The desert were Rapunzel With their twins to which she had given birth Wretchedness so familiar to him That he went forward towards it

Starting point is 00:13:23 Ponsul knew two of her tears Wetted his eyes And they grew clear again As before He led her to his kingdom Where he was joyfully received And they lived for a long time afterwards happily ever after.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Story: Rapunzel - The Original Grimm Fairytale

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