Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Brothers Grimm Bedtime Stories

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

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Tonight I'm reading some Brothers Grimm stories. I haven't read some for a while, but I do love these classic fairy tales. The Brothers Grimm are really well known for popularizing the great fairy tales, such as Snow White, Red Riding Hards. and Cinderella. However, they have a range of fairy tales that many people don't know or haven't heard before. And tonight, I'll be reading three of them out to you. There is a version of this recording on my bedtime story YouTube channel. I'll leave a link in the description for you. Please let me know in the comments what you think

and subscribe to get updates on all new content. Thank you so much for listening. So get comfortable, settle down a relax and let's begin to Sultan. A shepherd had a faithful dog called Sultan who had grown very old. who had grown very old and had lost all his teeth. And one day, when the shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house,

the shepherd said, I will shoot old Sultan tomorrow morning, for he is of no use now. But his wife said, Pray, let the poor faithful Christ, creature live. He has served as well, a great many years, and we ought to give him a livelihood for the rest of his days. But what can we do with him? said the shepherd. He is not a tooth in his head, and the thieves don't care for him at all. To be sure, he has served us, but then he did

it to earn his livelihood. Tomorrow shall be his last day, depend upon it. Poor Sultan, who was lying close by them, heard all that the shepherd and his wife said to one another, and was very much frightened to think tomorrow would be his last day. So in the evening, he went to his good friend the wolf, who lived in the wood and told him all his sorrows. And how his master meant to kill him in the morning, make yourself easy, said the wolf,

I will give you some good advice. Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early, with his wife, into the field, and they take their little child with them and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work. Now do you lie down close by the child and pretend to be watching it?

I will come out of the wood and run away with it. You must run after me as fast as you can and I will let it drop. then you may carry it back, and they will think you have saved their child, and will be so thankful to you that they will take care of you as long as you live. The dog liked this plan very well,

and accordingly so it was managed. The wolf ran with the child a little way. The shepherd and his wife, screamed out, but Sultan soon overtook him, and carries the poor little thing back to his master and mistress. Then the shepherd patted him on the head and said, Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live, and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat. Wife, go home and give him a good dinner, and let him have my old cushion to sleep on as long as he lives.

So from this time forward, Sultan had all that he could wish for. Soon afterwards, the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, Now my good fellow, you must tell no. tails, but turn your hair the other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherds, fine fat sheep. No, said the Sultan, I will be true to my master. However, the wolf thought he was in joke and came one night to get a dainty morsel. But Sultan had told his master what the wolf meant to do, so he was a little.

laid weight for him behind the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him finally. Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan an old rogue, and swore he would get his revenge. So the next morning The wolf sent the boar To challenge Sultan To come into the wood to fight the matter So Sultan had nobody

He could ask to be his second But the shepherd's Old three-legged cat So he took her with him And as the poor thing limped along With some trouble She stuck up her tail Straight in the air

The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground And when they espied their enemies coming And saw the cats long tail Standing straight in the air They thought she was carrying a sword for Sultan To fight with And every time she limped They thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them

So they said they should not like this one of fighting, and the ball lay down behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree. Sultan and the cat soon came up and looked about and wondered that no one was there. The ball, however, had not quite hidden himself, for his ears stuck out of the bush, and when he shook one of the milital, the cat seeing something move and thinking it was a mouse, sprang upon it and bit and scratched it, so that the ball jumped up and grunted, and run away, roaring out, look up in the tree, there sits the one who is to blame. So they looked up and espied the wolf,

sitting amongst the branches, and they called him a cowardly rascal, and would not suffer him to come down till he was heartfully ashamed of himself, and had promised to be good friends again with the old sultan. The straw, the coal and the bean. In a village dwelt a poor old woman who had gathered to, together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them. So she made a fire on her half, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw. When she was emptying the beans into the pan, one dropped without her observing it, and lay on the ground beside a straw, and soon afterwards a burning coal from the fire leapt down to the two.

Then the straw began and said, Dear friends, from whence did you come here? The coal replied, I fortunately sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain, I should have been burnt to ashes. The beans said, I too have escaped with a whole skin, but if the old woman had got me into the pan,

I should have been made into broth without mercy, like my comrades, and would a better fate have fallen to my lot, said the straw. The old woman has destroyed all my brethren in fire and smoke. She seized sixty of them at once and took their lives.

I luckily slipped through her fingers. But what are we to do now? said the Cole. I think, answered the bean, that as we have so far, Fortunately escaped death, we should keep together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us here, we should go away together and repair to a foreign country. The proposition pleased the two others, and they set out on their way together.

soon however they came to a little brook and as there was no bridge or foot plank they did not know how they were to get over it the straw hit on a good idea and said I will lay myself straight across and then you can walk over on me as on a bridge

the straw therefore stretched itself from one back to the other, and the coal, who was of an impetuous disposition, tripped quite boldly onto the newly built bridge. But when she had reached the middle and heard of the water rushing beneath her, she was after all afraid, and stood still and ventured no farther. The straw, however, began to burn, broke into two pieces and fell into the stream. The coal slipped after her, hissed when he got into the water, and breathed her last. The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event,

was unable to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst. It would have been all over with her, likewise, if by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in such of work had not set down to rest by the brook. As he had a compassionate heart, he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together. The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all being seen since then have a black seam. Clever Gretel. There was once a cook named Gretel

who wore shoes with red heels and when she walked out with them on she turned herself this way and that she was quite happy and thought you certainly are a pretty girl and when she came home she drank in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat,

she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking, until she was satisfied, and said, the cook must know what the food is like. It came to pass that the master one day said to her, Gretel, there is a guest coming this evening. Prepare me two fowls very daintily. I will see to it, Master, answered Gretel. She killed two fowls, scalded them, plucked them, put them on a spit,

and towards evening set them before the fire that they might roast. The fowls began to turn brown and were nearly ready, but the guest had not arrived. Then Gretel called out to her master. If the guest does not come, I must take the fowls away from the fire. But it will be a sin and a shame if they are not eaten the moment they are at their juices. the master said, I will run myself and fetch the guest. When the master had turned his back, Gretel laid the spit with the fowls on one side, and thought, standing so long by the fire there makes one sweat and thirsty.

Who knows when they will come? Meanwhile, I will run into the cellar and take a drink. She ran down, set a jug, and said, God bless it for you, Gretel, and took a good drink, and thought that the wine should flow on, and should not be interrupted, and took yet another hearty draught. Then she went,

and put the fowls down again to the fire, basted them, and drove the spit merrily around. But as the roast meat smelled so good, Gretel thought, something might be wrong, it ought to be tasted. She touched it with her finger and said, Ah, how good fowls are. It certainly is a sin and ashamed. that they are not eaten at the right time. She ran to the window to see if the master was not coming with his guest, but she saw no one and went back to the fowls and thought, one of the wings is burning. I had better take it off and eat it. So she cut it off,

ate it and enjoyed it. And when she was done, she thought, the other must go down too, or else master will observe that something is missing. When the two wings were eaten, she went and looked for her master and did not see him. It suddenly occurred to her. Who knows? They are perhaps not coming at all, and have turned in somewhere. Then she said, well Gretel enjoy yourself. One fell has been cut into, take another drink and eat it up entirely. When it is eaten, you will have some peace.

Why should God's good gifts be spoiled? So she ran into the cellar again, took an enormous drink and ate up one of the chicken in great glee. What one is, the other should be likewise. The two go together. What's right for the one is right for the other. I think if I were to take another draught, it would do me no harm. So she took another hearty drink and let the second chicken follow the first. Gretel looked at the other and said,

When one of the chickens was swallowed down, and still her master did not come. Gretel looked and the other and said, What one is, the other should be likewise? The two go together. What's right for the one is right for the other. I think if I were to take another draught, it would do me no harm. So she took another hearty drink and let the second chicken follow.

the first, while she was making the most of it. Her master came and cried, Hurry up, Gretel, the guest is coming directly after me. Yes, sir, I will soon serve up, answered Gretel. Meantime, the master looked to see that the table was properly laid, and took the great knife, wherewith, he was going to come. the chickens and sharpened it on the steps. Presently, the guest came and knocked politely and courteously out of the house door. Gretel ran and looked to see who was there, and when she saw the guest, she put her finger to her lips and said, Hush, hush!

go away as quickly as you can. If my master catches you, it will be the worse for you. He certainly did ask you to suffer, but his intention is to cut off your two ears. Just listen to how he is sharpening the knife for it. The guest heard of the sharpening and hurried down the steps again, as fast as he could. Gretel was not idle.

She ran screaming to her master and cried, You have invited a fine guest. Why, Gretel, what do you mean by that? he replied. Yes, said she. He is taking the chickens, which I was just going to serve up, off the dish and has run away with them. That's a nice trick, said her master, and lamented the fine chickens.

If he had but left me one, so that something remained for me to eat, he called to him to stop, but the guest pretended not to hear. Then he ran after him with a knife still in his hand, crying, just one, just one, meaning that the guest should leave him just one chicken and not take both. The guest, however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his ears and ran as if fire was burning under him in order to take them both with him.