Russian Fairy Tale - Vasilissa the Fair

Episode 16 Vasilissa the Fair
In this week's episode we’ll find out why it was so important to always keep a flame a light in your home. And what one brave girl will go through in order to obtain light for her dark world. 

She will face great hardship after losing her mother, travel through a dark dangerous forest, enter the house of a Baba Yaga, live with her and pass her tests all with the help of a special gift given to her by her mother as she lie on her deathbed. 

This weeks Tale : Vassilissa the fair is adapted from the version found in the book :

Russian Fairy Tales a Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-Lore
By W.R.S. Ralston, M.A.,
1873

For you grown ups out there check out the book Women who run with wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

She tells a hauntingly beautiful version of this story and has some fabulous interpretation.  

Also for the younger and the older out there check out a  really great Young adult book:

The House with Chicken Legs, By Sophie Anderson

My daughter and I have been reading it and it’s great .

Thanks for listening.

Narration and sound design by Aaron James

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