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Category: Favorite Fairy tales

These tales move me – I love to tell them or use them for workshops.

June 11, 2016May 21, 2016Favorite Fairy tales

The Lion’s Bride

One day a very handsome young man comes to a certain kraal and asks the parents if he could marry their daughter. […]

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June 11, 2016Favorite Fairy tales

Clever Elsie – a story about what happens when you over think things and under act…

A Brothers Grimm Fairy tale. I love this story because it rattles me every time – or shall I say ‘rings my […]

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June 4, 2016May 21, 2016Favorite Fairy tales

The Rose

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm There was once a poor woman who had two children. The youngest had to go every day into […]

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January 27, 2014October 10, 2020Favorite Fairy tales

The Rat Goes Home – a story about belonging

Where the story comes from Sometimes I dream significant bits of story, but only once in a blue moon do I dream […]

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