Hello, my darling. I need to tell you about our sponsor anchor dot f m. Anchor is a podcast creation and distribution tool. And it gives you everything you need to record edit. Plus they'll distribute your podcast to all of the major channels including Spotify Apple podcasts and Google podcasts free of charge you can make money with no minimum listenership and it couldn't be easier. Download the anchor app or go to Anchor dot. F m-- to get started. Sweet dreams. Hello, my darling. How are you tonight? I have a fun little story for us. It's called Thumbelina. And it was written by Hans Christian Andersen. in 1835 There was once a woman who wished very much to have a little child, but she could not obtain her wish. At last she went to a ferry and said I should so very much like to have a little child. Can you tell me where I can find one? Oh that could be easily managed said the fairy. Here is a Barleycorn a different kind to those which grow in the farmer's fields. And which the chickens eat? Put it into a flower pot. And see what happens. Thank you said the woman. And she gave the fairy 12 Shillings, which was the price of the Barleycorn. Then she went home and landed it. And immediately there grew a large handsome flower. It looks something like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed as if it were still a bud. It is a beautiful flower said the woman and she kissed the red and gold colored leaves. And while she did so the flower opened and she could see that it was a real tulip. Within the flower upon the green velvet stamens set a very delicate and graceful little Maiden. She was scarcely half as long as a thumb. And she gave her the name of Thumbelina or tiny because she was so small. A walnut shell elegantly polished served for her cradle. Her bed was formed blue violet leaves with a rose leaf counterpane. He or she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table where the woman had placed a plateful of water. Round this plate with a wreath of flowers with their stems in the water and upon it loaded a large tool a belief which served tiny as a boat here the little maid and sad and wrote herself from side to side with two oars made of white horse hair. It really was a very pretty sight. Penny could also sing so softly and sweetly but nothing like her singing and ever been heard before one night while she lay in her pretty bed a large ugly. What toad crept through her broken pane of glass in the window. And leaped right upon the table where tiny lay sleeping. What a pretty little wife this would make for my son said the toad. And she took up the walnut shell and which tiny lay asleep and jumped through the window with it into the garden. In the swampy margin of a broad stream and garden lives the toad with her son. He was even uglier than his mother and when he saw the pretty little maiden and her elegant bed, he could only cry croak croak croak. Don't speak so loud, or she will wake said the toad and then she might run away for she is as light as a swans down. We will place her on one of the water lilies out in the Stream. It will be like an island to her. She's so light and small and then she cannot escape and while she is away. We will make haste and prepare the stateroom under the marsh in which you are to live when you were married to her. Far out in the Stream growing number of water lilies with broad green leaves, which seemed to float on the top of the water. The largest of these leaves appeared farther off than the rest. And The Old Toad swam out to it with the walnut shell in which little tiny lay asleep. The tiny little creature will very early in the morning. And she began to cry bitterly when she found where she was 4 she could see nothing but water on every side of her large green leaf. And she had no way of reaching the land. Meanwhile The Old Toad was very busy under the marsh. Decking her room with Russia's and wild yellow flowers. She wanted to make it look pretty for her new daughter-in-law. Then she swam out with her ugly son to the leaf on which they had placed poor little tiny. She wanted to fetch the pretty bad that she might put it in the bridal chamber to be ready for her. The Old Toad bowed low to her in the water and she said here's my son. He will be your husband and you will live happily in the marsh by the Stream. Croak croak was all our son could say for himself. So the toad took up the elegant little bed and she swam away with it leaving tiny all alone on the Greenleaf. Tiny sat and wept she could not bear to think of living with The Old Toad and of having her ugly son for a husband. little fishes who swam about in the water beneath had seen the toad and heard what she said. So they lifted their heads above the water to look at the little Maiden as soon as they caught sight of her. They saw she was very pretty and it made them very sorry to think that she must go and live with the ugly toad. I know this must never be the agreed. So they assembled together in the water around the green stalk, which held the leaf on which the maiden stood. And they nodded away at the road with their teeth. Then the leaf floated down the stream carrying tiny far out far Out Of Reach of land. tiny sailed past many towns and the little birds and the bushes saw her and they sang What a beautiful creature. So the leaf swam away with her farther and farther until it brought her to a new land. A graceful little white butterfly constantly fluttered around her. And it lasted a lighted on her leave. Tiny pleased him and she was glad of it for now the toad could never reach her in the country through which she sailed was so beautiful and the sun Shone upon the Water until it glittered like solid gold. She took off her girdle and tied one end of it around the butterfly and the other end of the ribbon. She fastened to the leaf. Which now glided on much faster than ever taking the little tiny with it as she stood. Presently a large clock Schaefer flew by the moment. He caught sight of little tiny. He seized her round her delicate waist with his claws and flew with her into a tree. Greenlee floated away on the brook and the butterfly flew with it for he was fastened to it and could not get away. Oh how frightened little tiny felt when the cock Schaefer flew with her to the tree. But especially she was sorry for the beautiful white butterfly, but she had fastened to the leaf. For if he could not free himself, he would die of hunger. But the cock Schaefer did not trouble himself at all about the matter. He seated himself by her side little large green leaf. He gave her some honey from the flowers to eat and he told her she was very pretty not in the least like a cock shaver. after a time, all of the cock Schaefer's turned up their feelers and said She only has two legs. Look how ugly she is. She has no feelers at all said another. Her waist is very small. She looks like a human being I agree. She is ugly said all the lady cock Shavers, although tiny was very pretty. Then the cockchafer would run away with her believed all the others when they said she was ugly. I would have nothing more to say to her and he told her she might go wherever she like. Then he flew down from her with the tree and placed her on the Daisy and she wept at the thought. She was so ugly that even the cock Shavers would have nothing to say to her. And all the while she was really the loveliest creature that one could imagine and it's tender and delicate as a beautiful rose leaf. During the whole summer poor little tiny lived quite alone in the wide Forest. She won't for self a bed with blades and brass and hung it up under a broad leaf to protect herself from the rain. She sucked the honey from the flowers for food and drink the Dew from their leaves every morning. So passed away the summer then the Autumn then came the winter The Long Cold Winter. All the birds who had sung to her so sweetly flew away. And the trees and the flowers had withered. The large Cloverleaf under the shelter, which she lived was now rolled together shriveled up and nothing remained but a yellow withered stock. Tiny was dreadfully cold for her clothes were torn and she herself so frail and elegant that she very nearly froze to death. It began to snow then to and the snowflakes as they fell upon her like a whole shovelful falling on one of us for we are tall and she is only an inch. I Then she wrapped herself up in a dry Leaf, but it cracked in the middle and could not keep her warm and she shivered with cold. Near the wood and wood. She had been living like a cornfield. But the corn had been cut a long time. Nothing remains, but the bear dries double standing up out of the frozen ground. It was to her like struggling through a large wood. Oh how she shivered with the cold. She came at last to the door of field mouse who had a little Den under the corn stubble. There dwelt the field mouse in warmth and comfort with a whole room of corn a kitchen and a beautiful dining room. Poor little tiny stood before the door like a beggar girl and begged for a small piece of barley corn for she had been without a morsel to eat for two days. You poor little creatures at the field mouse. Please come into my room room and dine with me. The field mouse was very pleased with tiny. And so she said you are quite welcome to stay with me all winter if you like. But you must keep my room's clean and neat and tell me stories. For I shall like to hear them very much. And Tiny did all the feel Mouse asked her and found herself, very comfortable. We shall have a visitor soon said the field mouse one day. My neighbor pays me a visit once a week. He is better off than I am large rooms and wears a beautiful black velvet coat. If you could only have him for a husband you would be well provided for indeed, but he is blind and cannot see your beauty. So you must tell him some of your prettiest stories. But tiny did not feel at all interested in this neighbor for he was a mole. However, he came and paid a specific dressed in a black velvet cool, and he's very rich and learned and his house is 20 times larger than Minds at the field mouse. He was rich and learned no doubt, but you always spoke slightingly of the sun and the pretty flowers. Because he had never seen them. Tiny was obliged to sing to him ladybird. ladybird Fly Away Home she say And the mole fell in love with her because she had such a sweet voice. But he said nothing yet for he was very cautious. The short time before the mole had died of a long passage under the Earth which led from the dwelling of the field mouse to his own. and he or she had permission to walk with tiny whenever she like But he warned them not to be alarmed at the sight of a dead bird which lay in the passage. It was a perfect bird with a beak and feathers and could not have been dead long. It was just lying there where the mole had made his Passage. The mole took a piece of phosphorus Atwood in his mouth and it glittered like fire in the dark. And then he went before them to light them through the long dark Passage. When it came to the spot where lay the dead bird the mole pushed his broad nose through the ceiling the Earth gave way so there was a large hole. And the daylight shown into the passage in the middle of the floor Leia dead swallow his beautiful Wings pulled close to his side's. His feet in his head drawn up under his feathers. The poor bird evidently died of the cold it made little tiny very sad to see it. All the summer they had song and twittered for her so beautifully. But the mole pushed it aside with his crooked legs and said he will sing no more now how miserable it must be to be born a little bird. I am thankful that none of my children will ever be birds for they can do nothing but cry and tweet. And always die of hunger in the winter. Yes, you may well say that as a clever man exclaimed the field mouse. What is the use of his twittering for when winter comes he must either starve or be frozen to death still birds are very high bred. Tiny said nothing, but when the two others had turned their backs on the bird. She stooped down and stroke decide the soft feathers which covered the head. And she kissed his eyelids closed. perhaps this was the one who sang to me so sweetly in the Summer She said And how much pleasure you gave me you dear pretty bird. The mole now stopped the hole through which the daylight shown and then accompanied tiny home. But during the night tiny could not sleep. So she got out of bed and move large beautiful carpet of a Then she carried this to the dead bird and spread it over him. Along with some of the down from the flowers, but she had found in the field mouse is room. It was as soft as wool. That she spread some of it on each side of the bird so that he might lie warmly in the cold Earth. Farewell you pretty little bird. She said farewell Thank you for your delightful singing during the summer. When all the trees are green and the warm sun Shone upon us. Then she laid her head on the birds breasts. But she was alarmed immediately for it seemed as if something inside the dead bird some thumped. It was the birds heart. He was not really dead only be numbed with the cold and the warmth and restored him to life. In Autumn, all the swallows fly away it warm countries, but if one happens to linger the cold seizes it it becomes Frozen and falls down as if dead. It will remain their word fill and the still covers it. Tiny trembled very much. She was quite frightened. For the bird was large a great deal larger than herself as she was only an inch. I But she took courage lay the wall more thickly over the bars wallow and then took a leave which she had used for her own counterpane and laid it over the head of the bar bird. The next morning she against all out to see him. He was alive but very weak he can only open his eyes for a moment to look at tiny. Who stood by holding a piece of decayed wood in her hand for she had no other lantern? Thank you. Pretty little Maiden said the sick swallow. I have been so nicely warmed I shall soon regain my strength and be able to fly about again in the warm, sunshine. Oh said she it is cold out of doors. Now it snows and freezes. Stay in your warm bed, and I will take care of you. Then she brought the swallow some water in a flower leaf and after he had drunk his fill. He told her that he had wounded one of his wings in a thorn bush, and he could not fly as fast as the others and by now they were so far away on their journey to a warm country. Then at last he had fallen to the Earth and he could remember no more nor how he came to be what she found him. the whole winter the swallow remained Underground tiny nursed him with care and love neither of the Moon nor the field mouse knew anything about it for they did not like swallows. Very soon. The springtime came in the sun warmed the Earth. Then the swallow bade farewell to Tiny and she opened the hole in the ceiling which the mole had made. The sun Shone in upon them so beautifully that the swallow asked her if she would go with him. She could sit on his back. He said and he would fly away with her to the green ones. But tiny knew it would make the field mouse very grieved if she left her in that matter. So she said no I cannot. There will then there will you good and pretty Maiden so this will know. And he flew out into the sunshine. Tiny looked after him and the tears Rose in her eyes. She had grown very fond of the swallow. Tweet tweet tiny saying the bird as he flew out into the green ones and Tiny felt very sad. She was not allowed to go into the warm sunshine. The corn which had been sold in the field over the house of the field mouse had grown up. So hide the air and formed a thick wood that tiny would become lost. You are going to be married. Tiny said the field mouse. My neighbor has asked for you. What good fortune for poor child like you now we will prepare your wedding clothes. They must be both Woolen and linen. Nothing must be wanting when you are the most wife. Tiny had to turn the spindle in the field mouse hired for spiders. They were there to weave day and night. Every evening the mole visited her and was continually speaking of the time when the summer would be over. Then he would keep his wedding day with tiny. But now the heat of the sun was so great that it burned the Earth and it made it quite hard like Stone. As soon as the summer was over the wedding would take place. But tiny was not at all pleased. She did not even like the tiresome mole. Every morning when the sun rose and every evening when it went down she would creep out the door and as the wind blew aside the ears of corn so that she could see them blue sky, she thought how beautiful and bright it seemed out there and wish so much to see her dear swallow friend again. But he never returned. For by this time he had flown away into the lovely Green Forest. When autumn arrived tiny had her outfit quite ready and the field mouse said to her in four weeks The wedding will take place. And then tiny wept and she told the fieldmouse that she could not marry the disagreeable mole. nonsense replied to feel Mouse Now don't be obstinate. Alright, shall bite you with my white teeth. He is a very handsome more. The queen herself does not even wear beautiful velvets and first like is his kitchen and sellers are quite full you are to be very thankful for such a good fortune. So the wedding day was fixed on which the mole was to fetch tiny away to live with him. Deep under the Earth but never again to see the warm sun because he did not like it. The poor child was very unhappy at the thought of saying farewell to the Sun. And as the field mouse had given her permission to stand at the door. She went to look at it once more. Farewell bright Sun. She said she stretched her arm out towards it and then she walked a short distance from the house for the corn had been cut and only the dry stubble remained in the fields. farewell Farewell she repeated Twining her arm around a little red flower that car just by her side. Read the little swallow from me if you should see him again. Tweet tweet sounded over her head suddenly. She looked up and there was a swallow himself flying close by. as soon as he spied tiny he was delighted and then she told him how unwilling she felt to marry the ugly mole and to live always beneath the Earth and never to see the bright Sun anymore and as she told him she wept Cold winter is coming said the swallow and I'm going to fly away into a warmer country. Will you go with me? You can sit on my back and fasten yourself on a sash. Then we can fly away from the ugly mole and his gloomy rooms. Far away over the mountains until warmer country where the sun shines more brightly far more brightly than a year. Where it is always Summer and the flowers bloomed greater Beauty. Fly now with me my dear tiny. You saved my life when I lay Frozen and that dark Passage. Let me save yours now. Yes, I will go with you said Tiny. And she seated herself on the birds back with her feet outstretched on his wings and she died her girdle to one of his strongest feathers. And the swallow Rose into the air and flew over forest and oversee. high above the highest mountains covered with eternal snow tiny would have been frozen in the colder, but she crept under the birds won't feathers keeping her head uncovered. So she might admire the beautiful lands over which they passed. At length, they reached the warm country where the sun Shone brightly and the sky seemed so much higher above the Earth. Care on the hedges and by the wayside group purple green white grapes lemons and oranges hung from trees in the woods and the air was fragrant with myrtles and orange blossoms. Beautiful children ran along the country lanes playing with large. Happy butterflies And as a swallow farther and farther every place appeared stillborn lovely. At last they came to a Blue Lake and by the side of it shaded by trees of the deepest green. Stood a palace of dazzling White marble built in the olden times. Vines clustered round its lofty pillars and at the top were many swallows nests and one of these was the home of the swallow who carried tiny This is my house said the swallow, but it would not do for you to live there. You would not be comfortable. You must choose one for yourself. One of those lovely flowers and I will put you down on it, and then you shall have everything you wish to make you happy. That will be delightful. She said and classed her little hands and joy. A large marble pillar lay on the ground which in Falling had broken into 3 pieces between these pieces grew the most beautiful large white flowers. So the swallow flew down with tiny and placed her on one of the broad leaves. But how surprised she was to see in the middle of the flower the tiny little man as white and transparent as if he had made of crystal. He had a gold crown on his head and delicate Wings on his shoulders and was not much larger than tiny herself. It was the angel of the flower for a tiny man and a tiny woman dwell in every flower. And this was the king of them all. Oh how beautiful he is whispered tiny to the swallow Little Prince. Was it first quite frightened by the part who is like a giant compared to such a delicate little creature as himself. But when he saw a tiny he was delighted and he thought her the prettiest little Maiden he had ever seen. He took the Gold Crown from his head and placed it on hers asked her name and if she would be his wife and queen over all of the flowers. This certainly was a very different sort of husband to the son of a toad or a mole even with black velvet. And fur, so she said yes immediately to the handsome prince. Then all the flowers opened and out of each came a little lady or a tiny Lord or so pretty that it was quite a pleasure to look at them. Each of them brought tiny and present but the best gift was a pair of beautiful wings. Which had belonged to a large white fly and they fastened them to Tiny shoulders so that she might fly from flower to flower. Then there was much rejoicing in the little swallow setup of them in his nest. Was asked to sing a wedding song. Which he did as well as he could but in his heart he felt sad for he was very fond of tiny and would like never depart from her again. You must not be called tiny anymore. So the spirit of the flowers to her. It is an ugly name and you are so very pretty. We'll call you Maya. Farewell then said the swallow with a heavy heart. He left the warm country to fly back to Denmark there. He had a nest over the window of a house in which 12 the writer of fairy tales. the swallows saying tweet tweet and from his song Kim the whole story the end have sweet and creepy dreams my darling.
 Soft spoken ASMR reading of the classic fairy tale, Thumbelina, by Hans Christian Andersen, 1835. Enjoy with headphones. The woman is gifted with the beautiful Thumbelina, who she names Tiny, but Tiny is immediately taken from her home by a toad with an ugly son. The toad wants Thumbelina to marry her son and devises a plan to ensure she can never escape. Eventually, she is saved by a bird and a field mouse, and betrothed to a neighbor mole. Thumbelina is desperate for a different ending and, after saving the life of a frozen swallow, is taken to an enchanting land with angels and fairies living within the flowers. The story does have a moral - that, regardless of the obstacles in our lives, the best path is the one taken through kindness and honesty. Like Thumbelina, if we care for those around us and are fair and kind, we too will be rewarded with happy endings. #softspokenasmr #whisperasmr #thumbelina #hanschristianandersen #brothersgrimm #grimmfairytales  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 