Fairy Tale Fix

The Wedding of Mrs. Fox & The Leeshy Cat and The Snake’s Treasure Strap in for a Jumbo Sized #HotGoblinSummer kick off as Kelsey tells the unhinged Grimm’s fairy tale, The Wedding of Mrs. Fox, and then a listener recommendation from our favorite: Ruth Manning-Sanders, The Leeshy Cat. Abbie finishes up perfectly for our summer break and leaves you with The Snake’s Treasure.    Fairy Tale Fix wi...

The Twelve Huntsmen & The Unicorn (“El Oricuerno”) A very happy Pride to you and yours! This episode is all about gender and kissing the people you want to, with a little vengeance sprinkled on top. Abbie recounts the Brothers’ Grimm tale of The Twelve Huntsman, which is a story about true love, disguise, the supposed gender binary, and a lion that’s either trolling hard or deeply...

Yael & Mulwarra and The Weeping Mermaid of Loch Assynt & The Scottish Mermaid of Galloway For this MerMay episode, we’re joined by a very special guest, Madeleine Lammel, Abbie’s sibling! Madeleine tells us the most romantic fairy tale we’ve ever heard on the pod, the Australian tale Yael and Murlwarra. Kelsey follows it up with two Scottish mermaid tales, The Weeping Mer...

The Siren’s Hunger, The Sea Remembers, & Rake Up! It’s MerMay and we’re joined once again by our very own mystic siren, Chadwick Heiberg! Chadwick’s lifelong love of the sea brings two very satisfying mermaid tales (ha, get it?) for MerMay, starting with The Siren’s Hunger, where a familiar character returns but is forever changed – then a new kind of tale called The Se...

Jack the Giant Killer Romance! Bloodlust! Two Headed Giants! Three Headed Giants! Demons! Cool names! Kelsey tells the Cornish legend of Jack the Giant Killer this episode, and it is everything. And yet, it still needed the Fixtresses help to add Feminism/Lesbians/More Epicness/One crucial renaming. Good thing for all of you we were here. Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us o...

The Spinners of Blessings & The Abhartach It’s Irish fairy tale month (AKA the best time of the year)! Abbie reads an old Irish folk tale that’s sure to bring a happy tear to your eye with The Spinners of Blessings. Then we take a sharp turn with Kelsey’s dark Irish folk tale, The Abhartach, thought to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Make sure to rate, rev...

The Laughing Apples What’s so funny? Find out this week on Fairy Tale Fix (spoiler alert; it’s us) as Abbie reads us the Sicilian fairy tale The Laughing Apples as written by our favorite, Ruth Manning-Sanders. This is a long one so strap in! Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Discord channel ! Join our Patre...

The Spinners of Blessings & The Abhartach It’s Irish fairy tale month (AKA the best time of the year)! Abbie reads an old Irish folk tale that’s sure to bring a happy tear to your eye with The Spinners of Blessings. Then we take a sharp turn with Kelsey’s dark Irish folk tale, The Abhartach, thought to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Make sure to rate, rev...

The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac & The Girl with the Horse’s Head/The Silkworm Goddess & The Fiddler in Hell Happy Lunar New Year! Abbie celebrates the onset of the Year of the Horse (her people!) with telling the tale of how the Chinese Zodiac came to be in the first place, followed up with a timeless horse trope here on Fairy Tale Fix with The Girl With The Horse’s Head (another excellen...

The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac & The Girl with the Horse’s Head/The Silkworm Goddess & The Fiddler in Hell Happy Lunar New Year! Abbie celebrates the onset of the Year of the Horse (her people!) with telling the tale of how the Chinese Zodiac came to be in the first place, followed up with a timeless horse trope here on Fairy Tale Fix with The Girl With The Horse’s Head (another excellen...

The Legend of Poinsettia & Twelve by the Mail and The Snail and the Rosebush It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Come gather around the yule log and listen to some holiday tales: one with a big dose of colonialism (boo) before our favorite sad bisexual Victorian boy (yay!), Hans Christian Andersen brings the mood up for a change. Abbie tells a Mexican Christmas story about the poin...

The Legend of Poinsettia & Twelve by the Mail and The Snail and the Rosebush It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Come gather around the yule log and listen to some holiday tales: one with a big dose of colonialism (boo) before our favorite sad bisexual Victorian boy (yay!), Hans Christian Andersen brings the mood up for a change. Abbie tells a Mexican Christmas story about the poin...

The Barrel Bung & Ubasute-yama (Mother-Rid Hill) Is anyone else having an existential crisis? No? Just us? Well strap in because it’s real clear on Fairy Tale Fix this week! Kelsey tells a Swedish fairy tale about how we humans keep having to learn the same lesson of not allowing people to hoard wealth over and over again in The Barrel Bung. Abbie’s story also has a strong message...

The Man Who Came Out Only At Night & A Box of Fairies We love an unplanned theme! This week on Fairy Tale Fix, we’re keeping busy with Abbie reading an Italian folk tale called The Man Who Only Came Out At Night, a story that’s barely about that man at all. Kelsey then reads a Scottish fairy tale entitled A Box of Fairies, where a smitten young lad is given very specific instructio...

The Road to Baba Yaga & Wait Till Martin Comes & Aaron Kelly’s  Bones Our favorite nomadic gnome and spellbound storyteller is back for the third installment of his Baba Yaga series, we welcome Chadwick Heiberg back to Fairy Tale Fix! Chadwick reads his original fairy tale, The Road to Baba Yaga, and answers some very important questions we’ve had about our favorite witchy grandmother. The...

Ouija Board Demon, Bloody Mary, & The Legend of Black Annis & Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: The Haunted House and Room for One More It’s Halloween season! Abbie kicks things off by telling us all about our childhood favorites; the Ouija Board Demon and Bloody Mary, followed by the terrifying English legend of Black Annis. Kelsey follows it up with a millennial Halloween favorite...

Rapunzel & What Are Old Women Made of? & Watching for the Milk Stealer Kelsey takes inspiration from her trip into the woods and reads Rapunzel from the Brothers Grimm. Abbie follows it up with another tale about an old woman in Watching for the Milk Stealer from her Wise Women book. We also learn What Old Women Are Made Of – if you think you know the answer you’re WRONG! Find out on Fairy...

Anna Mayala & The Old Woman Ghouleh and The Old Woman and Her Cat We’re back at it again with some hot mermaid sh*! Kelsey tells a very mysterious tale we need all the details on about a Lorelai-esque baddie named Anna Mayala from The Turnip Princess while Abbie makes good on her promise and delivers two Palestinian tales of old women with The Old Woman Ghouleh and The Old Woman and Her...

Sermerssuaq, Bone, The Old Woman Who Ran Away & The Grumbling Old Woman & Roan Fairy Tale Fix has really hit the big time hosting our very first published fairy tale author: Tish Black! Tish reads the Fixtresses two of her fairy tale retellings that hit all the right catharsis notes for your feminine rage: Bone and Roan (hey that rhymes). Kelsey rounds out the episode with two tales of how...

The Green Bird & Baga Yaga and The Brave Youth Spoiler alert: the fix is Free Palestine for the Palestinian folk tale of Speak Bird, Speak Again told by Abbie in this episode. Kelsey takes things to a lighter (right?) place with the Slavic tale of Baba Yaga and the Brave Youth. Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us on Instagram  @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on our Dis...

The Cloak of Rainbow Feathers & The Old Beggar Woman & The Three Lazy Sons MAKE WAY FOR OUR FAERIE OVERLORD! That’s right, this week the Fixtresses are joined by their dark mistress, their patron saint, their mysterious benefactor – the one and only Gisselle M. Ingan (cue air horns). Gisselle tells her very own original fairy tale – The Cloak of Rainbow Feathers (it’s beautiful...

Hacon Grizzlebeard & The Magic Eagle Now usually we stan a wicked hussy, but for once we’re with the prince during Kelsey’s retelling of Hacon Grizzlebeard, a 1930’s screwball comedy masquerading as a Scandinavian fairy tale! Abbie follows up with The Magic Eagle, a Timotean (Venezuela) myth that honestly could use more shenanigans, as it features only competent protagonists who heed the call...

Ride a Cockhorse to Banbury Cross, The Giantess’ Burden & How An Old Man Lost His Wen Fairy Tale Fix is back! This week we thank our listeners for your patience as we navigate the loss of our good friend and podcast editor & producer, Dustin. We miss you dearly, buddy. Abbie reads a story that would have tickled him pink–Ride A Cockhorse to Banbury Cross, and follows it up with a tale abou...

Billy Duff and the Devil & The Leprechaun’s Trick It’s the end of Irish fairy tale month, and we’ve got two exciting tales to send it off in style! Abbie starts us off with Billy Duff and the Devil, a story about a lovable drunkard who gets up to all sorts of devilish mischief. Then, Kelsey sends us off with The Leprechaun’s Trick, a proper Irish classic. Grab a pint and settle in!...

Sheela-Na-Skean, The Dream House &  Fintan  MacBochra, The Story of Shannon Finally, it’s our favorite time of the year – Irish fairy tale month! FOUR for the price of two!!! Turn down the lights and pretend it’s raining because Kelsey tells two ghostly tales perfect for a dark and stormy night; Sheela Na Skean and The Dreamhouse. Then, Abbie follows it up with two very cool Irish...