Episode 71: The Mermaid and the Falcon Prince
How often do we find a "new" fairy tale? In 2012 the scholar Erika Eichenseer found thirty boxes of fairy tales in an attic in Hamburg, Germany-- all of which had been written down in the 19th century by a man named Franz Xaver von Schönwerth. Here is one of those stories, a rowdy and multi-generational tale in which the realms of water and fire must be harmonized by a wizard living inside a rock. |
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