Traditional fairy tales aren’t exactly suitable for kids. Women vomit spiders. Children get eaten. There’s even murder! Every Wednesday, we take you through the twists and turns of the dark origins of your favorite pieces of folklore. To listen to the full Tales catalog for free, be sure to subscribe on Spotify! Tales is a Spotify Original from Parcast.
Young Katie can't wait to be an adult. So when a witch with a magic wand helps her dreams come true, Katie never wants to go back home... until she learns the witch's cannibalistic secret.
Season of the Witch is a special storytelling series across Parcast Network. Follow Superstitions and Haunted Places to find more spooky stories and historical haunts!
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This Norwegian folktale follows a young boy caught in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with a witch. And while his situation vaguely resembles other “home alone” tales, this one has a dark and bloody ending.…
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This Passamaquoddy tale follows a boy who tries to find a home with his mother's tribe — but instead, discovers an evil disease.
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This Greek saga follows Hercules on one of his infamous Labors. Instead of battling a violent, mythical beast, however, he faced a challenge that tested his cleverness… and his stomach.
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This Swiss fairy tale takes a look at the dark things that can happen at a remote forest cottage... and reminds us that not all good Samaritans are rewarded for their deeds.
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This traditional West African folk tale chronicles the life of Oya, a shape-shifting deity who must make a difficult choice between family and her secret life as a wild animal.
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In the dramatic conclusion of Prince Milorad's tale, our hero fights back against his traitorous servant by drawing on his own unique strengths.
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In this Serbian folk tale, a sensitive prince helps a prisoner in need, but ends up banished from his father's kingdom.
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He didn’t think goblins were real until he was kidnapped by them. This Swedish fairy tale follows a young troublemaker who discovers the goblins have a more sinister plan for him than he ever could have imagined.
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As Scheherazade's wild tales come to end, we learn what becomes of her once she finally runs out of stories to tell her murderous husband.
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.