Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Grimm Fairy Tale Sleep Stories - The Fox and The Horse & Other Stories

Episode Date: September 24, 2025

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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 Cove, the podcast and YouTube channel to get a great night's sleep. Tonight, I'm reading some more grim fairy tales that were taken from their first book, which was published in 1812. The stories include the straw, the coal and the bean, the turnip, the old man and his grandson,

and the fox and the horse. If you'd like to listen to this collection of stories music free, please go to my YouTube story channel. I'll leave the link in the description. I really hope you enjoy it. begin. The fox and the horse. A farmer had a horse that had an excellent faithful servant to him.

But he was now grown too old to work, so the farmer would give him nothing more to eat and said. I want you no longer, so take yourself out of my stable. I shall not take you back again until you are strong. than a lion. Then he opened the door and turned him adrift. The poor horse was very melancholy and wandered up and down in the wood, seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain. Presently, a fox met him. What's the matter, my friend? said he, why do you hang down your head and look so lonely and woe begun.

Reply the horse, Justice and avarice never dwell in one house. My master has forgotten all that I have done for him so many years, and because I can work no longer, he has turned me adrift, and says, unless I become stronger than a lion, he will not take me back again.

What chance can I have of that? He knows I have none, or he would not talk so. However the fox bid him be of good cheer and said, I will help you. Lie down there, stretch yourself out quite stiff and pretend to be dead. The horse did as he was told, And the fox went straight to the lion who lived in a cave close by and said to him, A little way off lies a dead horse.

Come with me, and you may make an excellent meal of his carcass. The lion was greatly pleased and set off immediately. And when they came to the horse, the fox said, you will not be able to eat him comfortably here. I'll tell you what. I will tie you fast to his tail. And then you can draw him to your den and eat him at your leisure. The advice pleased the lion,

so he laid himself quietly for the fox to make him fast to the horse. But the fox managed to tie his legs to together and bound him so hard and fast that with all his strength he could not set himself free. When the work was done, the fox clapped the horse on the shoulder and said, Jip-Dobbin, Jip. Then up he sprang and moved off, dragging the lion behind him. The beast began to roar and ballet, till all the birds of the wood, flew away for fright, but the horse let him sing on, and made his way quietly over the fields

to his master's house. Here he is master, said he, I've got the better of him, and when the farmer saw his old servant, his heart relented, and he said, thou shalt stay in thy stable, and be well taken care of. and so the poor horse had plenty to eat and lived happily till the end of his days. The old man and his grandson. There was once a very old man whose eyes had become dim, his ears don't love hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at the table, he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the tablecloth.

or let it run out of his mouth. His son and his son's wife were disgusted at this. So the old grandfather, at last, had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards the table with his eyes full of tears. Once too his trembling hands could not hold the mole And it fell to the ground and broke The young wife scolded him

But he said nothing and only side They brought him a wooden bowl For a few halfpence Out of which he had to eat Meanwhile once Sitting thus Were their little grandson Of four years old

began to gather together some bits of wood upon the ground. What are you doing there? asked the father. I'm making a little trough, answered the child, for father and mother to eat out of when I am big. The man and his wife looked at each other for a while and presently began to cry. Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything.

The turnip, there were two brothers who were both soldiers. The one was rich and the other poor. The poor man thought he would try to better himself, so pulling off his red coat, he became a gardener, and he dug his ground well and sowed turnips. When the seeds came up, there was one plant bigger than all the rest, and it kept getting larger and larger, and seemed as if it would never cease growing, so that it might have been called the Prince of Turnips,

for there never was such a one seen before, never will again. At last, it was so big that it filled a cart, and two oxen could hardly draw it, and the gardener knew not what in the world to do with it, nor whether it would be a blessing or a curse to him. One day he said to himself, what shall I do with it if I sell it? It will bring no more than another. And for eating, their little turnips are better than this, and the best thing perhaps is to carry it and give it to the kings as a mark of respect.

Many yoked his oxen and drew the turnip to the court and gave it to the king. What a wonderful thing, for the king. I've seen many strange things. but such a monster as this I never saw. Where did you get the seed? Or is it only your good luck? If so, you are a true child of fortune. And now, answer the gardener,

I am no child of fortune. I am a poor soldier, who never could get enough to live upon. So I lay aside my red coat and set to work, tilling the ground, I have a brother who is rich, and your majesty knows him well, and all the world knows him,

but because I am poor, everybody forgets me. The king then took pity on him and said, You shall be poor no longer. I will give you so much that you shall be even richer than your brother. When he gave him gold, elvans and flocks, and made him so rich that his brother's fortune could not at all be compared with his. When the brother heard of all this and how a turnip had made the gardener so rich, he envied him sorely, and bethought himself how he could contrive to get the same good fortune for himself.

However, he determined to manage more cleverly than his brother and got together a rich present of gold and fine horses for the king, and thought he must have a much larger gift in return, for if his brother had received so much for only a turnet what must his present be worth. The king took the gift very graciously and said who knew not what to give in return more valuable and wonderful than the great turnip. So the soldier was forced to put it into a cart and drag it home with him. When he reached home, he knew not upon whom to vent his rage and spite. And at length, wicked thoughts came into his head, and he resolved to kill his brother. So he hired some villains to murder him, and having shown them where to lie in ambush, he went to his brother and said, Dear brother, I have found a hidden treasure.

Let us go and dig it up and share it between us. The other had no suspicions of his regory So they went out together And as they were travelling along The murderers rushed out upon him Bound him And were going to hang him on a tree But whilst they were getting already

They heard the trampling of a horse at a distance Which so frightened them That they pushed their prisoner neck and shoulders together into a sack and swung him up by a cord to the tree where they left him dangling and run away. Meantime he worked and worked away till he made a large hole enough

to put his head out. When the horseman came up he proved to be a student, a merry fellow who was journeying along on his neck. and singing as he went. As soon as the man in the sack saw him passing under the tree, he cried out, Good morning, good morning to thee, my friend. The student looked out everywhere and seeing no one, and not knowing where the voice came from, cried out, who calls me? When the man in the tree answered,

Lift up thine eyes, For behold here I sit in the sack of wisdom. Here have I, in a short time, Learned great and wondrous things. Compared to the seat, Or the learning of the schools, is an empty air. A little longer, and I shall know All that a man can know,

and shall come forth wiser than the wisest of mankind. Here I discern the signs and motions of the heavens and the stars, the laws that control the winds, the number of the sands on the seashore, the healing of the sick,

the virtues of all simples, of birds and of precious stones, wurt thou but once here, my friend. Thou wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge. The student listened to all this and wondered much. At last he said, Blessed be the day and hour when I found you.

Cannot you contrive to let me into the sack for a little while? Then the other answered, as if very unwillingly. A little space I may allow thee to sit here, if thou wilt reward me well and entreat me kindly, but thou must tarry yet an hour below, till I have learnt some little matters that are yet unknown to me. So the student sat himself down and waited a while,

but the time hung heavy upon him, and he begged earnestly that he might ascend forthwith, for his thirst for knowledge was great. Then the other pretended to give way, and said, Thou must let the sack of wisdom descend by untying yonder cord, and then thou shalt enter. So the student Let him down Open the sack and set him free

Now then cried he Let me ascend quickly As he began to put himself Into the sack Heels first The gardener said Wait a while That is not the way

Then he pushed him in head first Tied up the sack And soon swung up the searcher after wisdom, dangling in the air. How is it with thee, friend, said he, dost thou not feel that wisdom comes unto thee? Rest there in peace till thou art a wiser man than thou wert. So saying, he trotted off the student's nag

and left the poor fellow to gather wisdom till somebody should come and let him down. The straw, the coal and the bean. In a village dwelt a poor old woman who had gathered together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them. So she made a fire on her hearth and that it might burn the quicker

she knighted 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 bean 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 any 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. And what are we to do now, said the Cole. I think, answered the Bean, that as we have so 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.

Their proposition pleased the two others, and they set out on their way together. Soon, however, they came to a little brook, and there was no bridge or footplank. They did not know how they were to get over it. The straw hit on a good idea and said, If I lay myself straight across, and then you can walk over me, as on a bridge. The straw therefore stretched itself from one bank 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 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 she 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 to be. with her, likewise if by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling a search of work had not sat 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 beans since then have a black seam.