Fairy Tale Fix

Kelsey and Abbie get into the holiday spirit the only way they know how – with some sad, existentially dreadful tales written by a couple of sad Victorian bisexual boys. Kelsey reads Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier, while Abbie opts for Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@...

Abbie tells us the wholesome tale of Bull’s Winter House while both Abbie & Kelsey cast Parks and Rec characters for the story. Kelsey tells a tale about three extraordinarily talented women and their superficial nephew-in-law in The Three Aunts. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairytalefixpod.com , and make sure to...

The Apple Tree Man & The Old Witch Kelsey enjoys a cup of hot apple cider (possibly with vanilla whiskey) while telling the story of The Apple Tree Man and explains some background about wassailing, and Abbie tells the story of The Old Witch who really needs to do her chores more often. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Send your stories to...

It’s time for a blind reading! Abbie & Kelsey let the fates decide two randomly chosen fairy tales for some genuine, organic reactions. Abbie reads the terrifying tale of Lu-bo-bo, a hungry beast out for teenage blood (at least we wish), while Kelsey reads the classic Little Brother and Little Sister, and are once again disappointed by creepy old kings preying on young maidens in the forest. S...

In this special Halloween episode, Kelsey covers two terrifying Grimm fairy tales: How Children Played At Slaughtering and The Juniper Tree, which has it all – murder, possession, cannibalism, REVENGE! Abbie tells the origin story of Jack O’ Lanterns by covering The Legend of Stingy Jack. For more spooky folklore and legends, make sure to check out An Aloreing Halloween Playlist . Send us your fav...

It’s spooky season! Abbie starts us off with an Irish account of The Headless Horseman from A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, and Kelsey (completely coincidentally) follows it up with yet another Irish ghost tale, The Nut Eating Ghost, from Jeremiah Curtain’s incredible ethnography, Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird st...

It’s our Podversary! To celebrate one year of Fairy Tale Fix, Abbie and Kelsey cover one of the big ones: Sleeping Beauty. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairytalefixpod.com , and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter @fairytalefixpod. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.  If yo...

My Lord Bag of Rice & Yanni It’s Dragon Day! Abbie tells the story of the infamous and fearless Hidesato, whose heroic demeanor catches even the eye of a dragon king, in My Lord Bag of Rice. Kelsey tells a very different dragon story in Yanni, where–as usual–the story is not named after the right hero. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Send...

Kelsey tells the story of The Kindly Magician (but was he?) from one of our favorite books, Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends. Abbie reads a story about a father who (as usual)  promises way too much, too soon, and his very clever daughter in The Monkey Bridegroom. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairytalefixpod.com , and...

The Three Mermaids & The Wolves Abbie tells an uplifting story that is the fairy tale equivalent of meeting drunk girls in a bar bathroom, The Three Mermaids, as told by our favorite fairy tale goddess Ruth Manning-Sanders. Kelsey then ruins the entire episode and feel-good vibe with a very short and disturbing tale, The Wolves. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever y...

Vasilisa the Beautiful & The Princess with the Seven Pairs of Shoes FINALLY, more Baba Yaga! Kelsey retells the popular Russian fairy tale Vasilisa The Beautiful, a dark tale of a poor maiden who is forced into the woods, and what deadly mysteries live within those woods you might wonder… Meanwhile, Abbie tells a dreamy Brazilian folk tale, The Princess With The 7 Pairs Of Shoes. Do you think...

Abbie tells us the story of a cat that’s dressing for the job he wants, Puss In Boots, while Kelsey tells the story of the Old Woman In The Wood, where a spunky maiden trespasses and rummages through a poor old woman’s jewelry at the behest of a bird. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairytalefixpod.com , and make sure t...

Shrek! Kelsey and Abbie discuss one of the greatest modern fairy tales of all time: Shrek! by William Steig. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Send your stories to info@fairytalefixpod.com and follow us on Instagram and Twitter @fairytalefixpod. If you enjoy the show, help us out by joining our Patreon at fairytalefix.cash and visit us at fairy...

Tiresias and Caeneus and Achilles & The Imp Cat Here to help us celebrate Pride Month, the gorgeous and wonderful Heidi from Far Beyond The Stars podcast guest stars and tells us some incredibly queer Greek mythology stories about Tiresias (the snake hater), Caeneus, and a very fun story we didn’t know about Achilles. Kelsey follows it up with a short story ‘The Imp Cat’ that reall...

Abbie tells one of the potentially best fairy tales of all time if only everyone hadn’t behaved so badly, East O’ The Sun and West O’ The Moon. Kelsey retells an existentially traumatic yet beautiful tale from our favorite known bisexual disaster, Hans Christian Andersen, The Teapot. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fair...

This week Kelsey tells the story that inspired one of her favorite video games, Kunuuksaayuka, an Iñupiat story by Robert Nasruk Cleveland and collected in the Stories of the Black River People. Abbie follows it up with a cautionary tale about butterflies, Tolowim Woman, and Butterfly Man, from the Maidu Indigenous peoples. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your gr...

The Wonderful Shirt & The Goblin Combe Abbie reads the best fairy tale of ALL TIME, hands down, The Wonderful Shirt from A Choice of Magic. This is really the tale that started the idea for this podcast and we are so excited for you to hear it! Kelsey tells a very short springtime tale about a Goblin Combe from Botanical Folk Tales. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherev...

Paul Bunyan & In The Jaws of the Merman We are taking a sharp turn this week on Fairy Tale Fix with our first guest star, Dustin Alexander! Dustin tells us about the OG Lumbersexual and popular American folktale legend Paul Bunyan, while Abbie and Kelsey somehow pick the same fairy tale (out of hundreds), In The Jaws of the Merman. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or whereve...

This week we celebrate the Dai Water Splashing Festival with one of Abbie’s childhood favorites, The Demon King, and Kelsey covers two short Chinese fairy tales; The Dragon After His Winter Sleep and How Three Heroes Came By Their Deaths Because of Two Peaches. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairytalefixpod.com and mak...

Abbie and Kelsey read your stories! This third Listener Tales episode includes some fun, ultra-modern fairy tale fixes, Hawaiian stories from Grandma, and a few translated Franz Xavier Schönwerth tales from our wonderful German listener. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairytalefixpod.com and make sure to follow us on I...

The White Snake & The Creation of the Amazon River & How the Night Came to Be Kelsey retells The White Snake from the Brothers Grimm, reminding us that demanding justice for horses is going to be a recurring theme in this podcast, while Abbie tells two beautiful creationism stories, The Creation of the Amazon River and How the Night Came to Be from her newest book Brazilian Folktales. Make...

The Deer and the Woodcutter & Bottle Hill Abbie tells a beautiful yet tragic Korean folktale The Deer and the Woodcutter, while Kelsey gets in the mood for St. Paddy’s Day with the legend of Bottle Hill, plus a few not-so-fun facts about her favorite Irish inspired drink. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Send your stories to info@fairytale...

The Bird With Nine Heads & The Fairy Dance & Rent Day Finally, dragons AND fairies in one episode! Kelsey tells the wonderful tale of The Bird With Nine Heads from her newest book, Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends, while Abbie reaches for a couple of classic fairy stories in The Fairy Dance and Rent Day from A Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify,...

Get ready because we are switching it up this week! Kelsey tells two classic tales; The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Rumpelstiltskin, while Abbie tells us about their Politically Correct counterparts that already have perfect fixes written by James Finn Gardner. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairytalefixpod.com and mak...

Kelsey dives into the beautiful tale of The Frog from A Choice of Magic, which has it all–Witches, curses, giants, princesses, and princes who need to ask waaay more questions. Abbie retells the mysterious tale of a man failing upward in The Kingdom of Ocean from A Book of Mermaids. Send us your favorite fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and weird stuff your grandparents told you as a kid to info@fairy...