Gildenmyth
The Sleeping Almanac
Sleeping Beauty · The Original Fairy Tale
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Sleeping Beauty the old way, from Perrault and from the Grimms' Briar Rose. A wish granted by the water, gifts spoken over a golden cradle, one spindle left in a high tower room, and then the enchantment the tale is named for: the whole castle falls asleep together, the cooks and the horses and the doves and the fire on the hearth, and a hedge of briars rises to guard the quiet. A hundred years pass in that stillness, and when the time is finally right, the hedge blooms and opens all by itself.
Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. The spindle does its small work early, and after that the entire story is one long, protected sleep, which is rather the point. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.
Episode 7 of 12 · The Storybook Season
Where this sits: Part 7 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the castle that slept for a hundred years. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.
Chapters
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:35The Wish by the Water
- 7:57The Feast of the Golden Plates
- 15:07The Gifts of the Wise Women
- 22:00The Thirteenth Wish, and the Twelfth
- 27:03The Kingdom Without Spindles
- 33:34The Tower Room
- 40:57The Castle Falls Asleep
- 50:47The Hedge of Briars
- 59:15A Hundred Years of Quiet
- 1:06:52The Hedge in Bloom
- 1:16:19The Waking House
- 1:28:20Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.