Gina Wagner
Tale Wagging: A Gleeful Retelling of little known fairy tales, folklore, history, and more!
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30 - Before Animal Crossing, there was New Atlantis (The time Hemingway founded a new island nation)
A tale from history of a man who tried to get out of his famous brother's shadow by towing a raft to shallow international waters and founding the island nation of New Atlantis. Nowadays, you'd just get out your Nintendo Switch and play Animal
A fairy tale from Byelorussia this week, "The Cottage in the Sky" collected by Neil Philip in the book, "Fairy Tales of Eastern Europe." It's a beanstalk type of tale with a very tasty house, kind mutant goats, and me attempting multiple accent
A very special Mother's Day week edition of Tale Wagging Podcast. I'll be telling two tales from African folklore.The first comes from South Africa and the second from the Republic of the Ivory Coast. Both involve mothers arming themselves and
This week's story is "The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch". It originated in Northern Africa and was collected by Andrew Lang for the Grey Fairy Book. It's a tale of regretting picking on your siblings, a talking ox that likes to taunt you, and the n
This week's story is "The Feather of Bright Finist the Falcon". It's Russian folklore about a bird-man. A man who can turn into a bird. He's said to be a great hero but he never saves anyone. When he has to leave the woman he loves, she goes on
Two stories this week! One from history and one fairy tale... A story from history when hiring a hermit to live in your garden was fashionable.And Maid Maleen, a princess bricked up in a tower for 7 years with food and drink and no light fr
Two stories this week! One from history and one fairy tale...In 1726 fifty miles outside of London, 24 year old Mary Toft did something extraordinary -- she gave birth to rabbits. Many, many rabbits. In "The Useless Wagoner" and "The King's
Here's a fairy tale with 15 years worth of loose ends, a frog with a magic cap, a fairy who turns into a lion, and video game monsters..."The Frog and the Lion Fairy".Join us LIVE on Twitch at twitch.tv/jackiebauertv or our Youtube Channel.If
WE'RE BACK with Season 2! In these interesting times we are living in, we could all use a distraction. How about letting us make you laugh with some funny fairy tales? You'll notice some updates to our intro/outro, audio, and format of the show
What I’m about to tell you is so scary that in 1746, parents were officially banned from terrifying their children with these stories by public decree!This episode, we are going to Iceland where they do it big with not just one, but 13 Father
This week, we are continuing our exploration of other characters that are not Santa. We learn how Belsnickel is different from Krampus and the importance of authority and fear at Christmas time. Then we get into Scandinavian folklore with the l
Double stories this week for Christmas! The first story is historical about Captain Santa and the Christmas Tree Ship on the waters of Lake Michigan making a late season run in a big storm. Check out the photo of the shipwreck on our FB page, T
This week's story is a great classic from Charles Dickens..."The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton." You'll find some...familiar elements, but with a lot more violence, alcoholism, and dark comedy. And a lion horse bear. Maybe.This is Ta
This week's story is from Romania where fairy tales really happened, you guys. For realz. "The Boys with the Golden Stars", we learn how the Romanian dating app works, wonder if facial deformities make you immortal, and put forth that puppies A
We are continuing our celebration of Thanksgiving! This tale has family and eating....and takes place IN Turkey. That's close enough, right? Beware if your sister is Mrs. PacMan working some kind of weird Jedi mind trick. We learn the way to su
This week I go into the history behind one of America's weirdest national traditions at Thanksgiving.....where the President pardons a turkey......Yes, this actually happens. Welcome to Tale Wagging: A Gleeful Retelling of little known fairy
This week's Native American Legend is called "The Lion and the Cat" (collected by Andrew Lang in the Brown Fairy Book). We learn what happens if a cat has the power of a Death Note, continue our debate over what determines princess status, and
This week's story is from the folklore of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans called "The Witch and Her Four Sons" collected by Emerson N. Matson in a book called "Longhouse Legends". We learn the importance of song selection when competing
We're going to Africa this week with a Native Rhodesian Tale called "The Story of the Hero Makoma" collected by Andrew Lang in the Orange Fairy Book. We'll learn how The Rock was born, how to make and collect new friends, and the dangers of rea
A story from history for Spooktober! 🎃🍂💀🍁👻This is a story of blood letting, zombies, and one of our founding fathers.Welcome to Tale Wagging: A Gleeful Retelling of little known fairy tales, folklore, history, and more!If you’d like to
Next is the story of a witch for Spooktober! 🎃🍂💀🍁👻This story is called "Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Fair." Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears in several Russian fairy tales. She's a witch who likes to eat people. Sometimes she's
Spook-tober continues.....🎃🍂💀🍁👻We are continuing in our story of H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle where the body count increases. You'll be surprised what eventually gets him caught by the authorities and the mysteries that remain. (This
Spook-tober continues with a scary true story from our history. 🎃🍂💀🍁👻Our story this week is about one of the first serial killers from American history who set up shop during one of the biggest events to ever come to Chicago. My source ma
It's Spook-tober! That means I'll be pulling out scaaary stories. 🎃🍂💀🍁👻This story is called "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Fear" or " The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was" or "Good Bowling and Card Playing". It's a Germa
Welcome to Tale Wagging: A Gleeful Retelling of little known fairy tales, folklore, history, and more!This story is called "King Lindorm" (a Swedish tale collected by Andrew Lang in The Pink Fairy Book.) In this story, we learn that even the n
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