Episode 7: ''Godmother Death and the Healer Urssenbeck"

Wise Crone Cottage Podcast

In this episode the Storyteller Kathy Shimpock tells you the Grimm Brothers' tale "Godfather Death." She then reads her new version of this story, one that is placed in a much earlier time. Her version is entitled, "Godmother Death and the Healer Urssenbeck," a story derived from several European variants. It is placed in the 1300s, at the time of the Black Death. In this version, the characters are female. In so doing, we'll learn something about gender, history and the wise crone.
Story: "Godfather Death," recorded by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Der Gevatter Tod, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales), 7th ed. (Berlin, 1857), no. 44.
Story: "Godmother Death and the Healer Urssenbeck," written by Kathy Shimpock.
Cover illustration: Hans Holbein (1497–1543), "The Dance of Death."
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 2020 Kathy Shimpock.
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