Episode 1 - The Old Woman and the Wicked Oni

Wise Crone Cottage Podcast

On this episode, Kathy discusses the creation of the Wise Crone Cottage podcast and the importance of folktales today. She'll tell you a Japanese story, "The Old Woman and the Wicked Oni." It's a story that explores the concept of the "Other." We'll see how the wise old woman becomes an unlikely hero, facing her opponents bravely and finding unexpected solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems. All rights reserved.
Story: From several variants of the "Old Woman and the Wicked Oni." Japanese folktale.
Cover Image: Edmund Dulac from the book The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910).
Music: The Snow Queen Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Copyright 2019, Kathy Shimpock.

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