The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the gentlest kingdom in all the old world, and the night a long story folds quietly in two. A girl goes down to a river at dawn to wash her father's linen, finds the sea's last castaway asleep in the leaves, and does not run. There is a garden that bears in every season at once, pear behind pear and fig behind fig, forever. There are ships that need no steersman and know the way by thought alone. And in a bright hall a blind singer sings a certain war so truly that a stranger weeps into his cloak, and is asked at last the one question he has not answered in twenty years. A calm, hopeful telling of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:30 Chapter One: The Wagon at Dawn 12:00 Chapter Two: The Stranger from the Leaves 20:18 Chapter Three: The Walk Behind the Mules 30:06 Chapter Four: The Garden That Bore in Every Season 39:05 Chapter Five: The Queen's Sharp Eye 49:03 Chapter Six: The Games and the Throw 1:00:28 Chapter Seven: The Blind Singer 1:08:47 Chapter Eight: The Song of the Horse 1:18:40 Chapter Nine: I Am Odysseus 1:27:47 Chapter Ten: The Gifts and the Farewell 1:35:09 Chapter Eleven: The Ship That Steered Itself 1:41:03 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sleeper Carried Home Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p3kD1LVxzgg New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The tablets that first wrote the Anunnaki slept under a hill for two and a half thousand years, and tonight is the story of how they came back. A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The fire that saved a library by baking its books, the grassy mound that kept them, a soldier copying an unreachable cliff, a quiet clerk who taught himself the oldest writing on earth at lunch, the broken tablet that held a flood, and a man in 1976 who read the same clay and told a very different story. Tonight both readings get their say, each in its own voice, and you can decide for yourself. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 6:54 The Same Lamp 11:32 The King Who Collected 19:22 The Night the City Burned 24:34 What Fire Does to Clay 29:25 Two and a Half Thousand Years 38:41 The Men With Shovels 45:16 The Cliff at Behistun 51:42 The Clerk Who Taught Himself 57:10 The Eleventh Tablet 1:05:47 The Man Who Read Them Differently 1:20:23 The Long Chain of Hands 1:27:04 Goodnight. And the Tablet in the Quiet Room 1:35:05 Calm music to drift off Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUkf3KRjIg Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long stay on the island of Calypso ends, the gods in the high air decide the wanderer may go home at last, and he builds a raft with his own hands and sails alone by the stars. The sea has one more storm to send, and a kind goddess a veil to save him, before a gentle river carries him to rest on a bed of leaves under two olive trees. A calm, hopeful telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:33 Chapter One: The Island Where Time Lay Down 12:45 Chapter Two: The Man at the Shore 21:32 Chapter Three: The Council in the High Air 27:55 Chapter Four: The God on the Wide Water 36:53 Chapter Five: The Choice Offered Once More 45:46 Chapter Six: The Axe and the Trees 54:44 Chapter Seven: The Stars on His Left Hand 1:04:03 Chapter Eight: The Sea Remembers 1:12:45 Chapter Nine: The River's Welcome 1:18:58 Chapter Ten: The Bed of Leaves 1:24:07 Chapter Eleven: The Dream Sent to a Princess 1:28:29 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Bed of Leaves Under the Two Olives Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4pguhDajTH8 New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

You have heard the word Anunnaki. Tonight we go all the way back to the clay the word was first pressed into. A slow, calm 3 hour Mesopotamian mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. The oldest written stories on earth, told the way the tablets actually tell them: the gods who dug the rivers and went on strike, the making of people from clay and river water, a world so loud the gods could not sleep, a flood told plainly and resolved gently, the sages who came out of the sea, and a list of kings who reigned for impossible thousands of years, with the small quiet true thing that explains those numbers waiting in the tenth chapter. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. Chapters 0:00 Welcome · The Lamp Is Lit 7:23 The Tablet House 17:45 Before Anyone Was Made 24:07 The Ones Who Carried the Baskets 28:32 The Night They Burned Their Tools 33:50 The God Who Had Intelligence 40:32 The Noise of a Full World 44:57 The Voice in the Reed Wall 49:50 Seven Days and Seven Nights 56:26 The Sages Who Came Out of the Water 1:07:58 The Kings Who Reigned in Thousands 1:17:01 What the Tablets Were For 1:26:00 Goodnight. And the Lamp in the Tablet House 1:30:43 Calm music to drift off Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1xB4hEvgA Everything in one place: https://gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication.

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ship must pass the three great dangers of the middle sea. First the meadow of the singing women, the Sirens, whose song no sailor is meant to survive. Then the narrow water between the cave and the whirlpool, Scylla and Charybdis, where the strait itself takes its toll. And last the green island of the sun and its forbidden cattle, and the storm that answers a broken oath. A grave and gentle telling for sleep, every danger named softly and never shown, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:45 Chapter One: The Shore Lore of the Goddess 14:14 Chapter Two: The Wind She Sent 23:01 Chapter Three: The Meadow of the Singers 33:56 Chapter Four: The Choice of Roads 43:25 Chapter Five: The Toll of the Strait 51:47 Chapter Six: The Green Island of the Sun 1:01:59 Chapter Seven: The Second Becalming 1:11:57 Chapter Eight: The Hunger That Broke the Oath 1:21:28 Chapter Nine: The Sea Keeps Its Word 1:30:18 Chapter Ten: The Grip on the Fig Tree 1:36:35 Chapter Eleven: Nine Days on the Kind Current 1:42:39 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Softest Shore the Sea Owned Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnPpfnBDTnE New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the travelers sail to the quiet edge of the world, where the living may speak once more with the friends they have lost. A blind prophet gives the way home, a mother is met again, and the great names of the old war come softly out of the mist to talk a while by a small fire. A tender, grave telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:28 Chapter One: The Reminder at the Fire 11:02 Chapter Two: The Young Man Who Missed the Sailing 18:00 Chapter Three: The Edge of the World 24:15 Chapter Four: The First Asking 30:20 Chapter Five: The Old Man with the Golden Staff 39:38 Chapter Six: His Mother's Face 47:13 Chapter Seven: The Counting of the Queens 54:47 Chapter Eight: The King Who Came Home to the Dark 1:03:28 Chapter Nine: The Gladdest Ghost 1:11:12 Chapter Ten: The Silence in the Meadow 1:16:23 Chapter Eleven: The Far Figures 1:23:48 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Promise Kept at Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/x4UEGwuLzvs New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the wind king gives a gift no one should open, home comes so close the watch fires can be seen, and a gentle enchantress on a green island keeps the weary travelers a whole slow year. This is the tale of the bag of winds and the house of Circe told for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:30 Chapter One: The Floating Island 11:15 Chapter Two: The Gift of the Tied Winds 17:16 Chapter Three: Nine Days Awake at the Steering Oar 23:35 Chapter Four: The Opening of the Bag 29:23 Chapter Five: The Closed Door 34:43 Chapter Six: The Harbor of the Giants 43:39 Chapter Seven: The Island of the Low Smoke 50:00 Chapter Eight: The House of the Singing Witch 59:46 Chapter Nine: The Flower with the Black Root 1:07:21 Chapter Ten: The Wand That Failed 1:21:04 Chapter Eleven: The Year of Rest 1:28:44 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Year of Rest Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eHamdubluU New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ships come to the island of the one eyed giant, and a clever captain saves his men with a cup of dark wine and a single word for a name. This is the tale of the Cyclops told gently for sleep, the guest law and the giant who broke it, the name that was No One, and the quiet escape under the warm wool of the rams at morning. Calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:43 Chapter One: The First Shore 11:38 Chapter Two: The Priest's Wine 15:40 Chapter Three: Nine Days of the Wrong Wind 20:24 Chapter Four: The Honey Sweet Country 26:21 Chapter Five: The Island of the Shepherd Giants 37:22 Chapter Six: The Question of the Guest Law 46:51 Chapter Seven: The Host Who Ate the Guest Law 53:37 Chapter Eight: The Name That Was No One 1:02:55 Chapter Nine: The Price of the Door 1:08:45 Chapter Ten: Under the Rams at Morning 1:18:46 Chapter Eleven: The Shout Across the Water 1:29:19 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Wake in the Dark Water Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dblcjNoUJkg New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the story is the oldest trick ever told. Ten long years the war for Troy would not end, until one restless mind thought of a horse of wood and a city that opened its own gates. This is the fall of Troy told gently, from the singer at the fire to the ships turning at last for home, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:43 Chapter One: The Song This Fire Will Not Steal 9:33 Chapter Two: The Ten Years Told as Weather 17:51 Chapter Three: The Mind the War Leaned On 24:56 Chapter Four: The Beggar Inside the Walls 34:24 Chapter Five: The Falling of the Brightest Star 44:01 Chapter Six: The Armor and the Silence 49:48 Chapter Seven: The Boy from Skyros 58:30 Chapter Eight: The Archer and the Old Bow 1:05:51 Chapter Nine: The Idea of the Horse 1:17:13 Chapter Ten: The Night of Held Breath 1:35:55 Chapter Eleven: The Ships Turn Home 1:46:40 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Ships Turning Home Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jXJmzh-Nceo New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight we open Season Four, the Odyssey, at the very beginning of the road to Troy. Long before the wooden horse, before the ten long years, a thousand ships put out to sea for the first time and made land on the wrong shore. This is the story of the false start, the wounded king, and the strange oracle that said the one who dealt the wound was the only one who could heal it. A slow, gentle telling for sleep, calm enough to drift to and rich enough to stay awake for if you choose. Close your eyes. Let the fire on the beach burn low. There is nothing to do now but listen and rest. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and the Singer at the Fire 4:44 Chapter One: The Morning After the Dawn 12:34 Chapter Two: The Sea Without Signposts 19:15 Chapter Three: The Landfall That Lied 25:15 Chapter Four: The King of the Wrong Country 35:04 Chapter Five: The Spear and the Wound 42:09 Chapter Six: The Scattering 48:36 Chapter Seven: The Years Between 55:53 Chapter Eight: The Wound That Would Not Close 1:03:45 Chapter Nine: The Beggar at the Door of the Kings 1:15:07 Chapter Ten: The Rust of the Spear 1:24:18 Chapter Eleven: The Guide Who Knew the Water 1:34:07 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight and the Road Found at Last Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gAJ0kDVRpL8 New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. 🎙️ Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📖 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊️ Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

A slow, calm 3 hour sleep story for the night of the full moon, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller reaches the last page of the old book, and she has saved it for this exact night: The Moon Princess, from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, the tenth century Japanese story sometimes called the oldest fairy tale of all. An old bamboo cutter finds a stalk glowing in his grove, and inside it a princess small enough to rest in his two hands. She grows into a lady so gentle that five grand suitors are set five impossible tasks and refused without one unkind word, an emperor becomes her friend by letter, and when the moon at last sends its shining procession down for her, she leaves behind a letter and a gift, carried to the summit of the highest mountain in Japan. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a farewell in it, but it is the gentlest farewell in any storybook, told with far more moonlight than sorrow. 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 12 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 12 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 princess the moon calls home, told on the night of the full moon, the last tale of the season. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 3:25 The Grove of Green Light 12:51 The Smallest Princess in the World 22:57 The Five Suitors 33:35 The Stone Bowl of the Buddha 40:38 The Jeweled Branch of Horai 51:45 The Robe of the Fire Rat 59:10 The Jewel in the Dragon's Neck 1:06:56 The Swallow's Shell 1:16:22 The Emperor's Letters 1:24:31 The Fifteenth Night of the Eighth Month 1:38:04 The Smoke of the Mountain 1:45:16 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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 The Snow Queen, Andersen's long winter tale of 1844. A troll's mirror shatters into splinters finer than dust, one splinter finds a boy named Kay, and his friend Gerda simply sets out to bring him home. Her road passes roses growing along a roof gutter, a robber girl who lends her own white reindeer, and a wise woman near the top of the world who says the truest thing in the whole story: the girl's own gentle heart is already power enough. The ice palace gives way to patience, not to force, and two friends walk home into summer. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is deep ice in it, but the whole story is about the thaw, and nearly every stranger Gerda meets ends up helping her on her way. 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 11 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 11 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 long walk north, and the thaw at the end of it. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 3:32 The Mirror of the Trolls 8:35 The Roses on the Roof Gutter 15:17 The White Sledge 24:56 The River and the Cherry Garden 38:44 The Crow Who Knew a Princess 48:28 The Prince and the Princess 57:38 The Little Robber Girl 1:10:41 The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman 1:21:08 The Word Made of Ice 1:29:59 The Road Home Runs Through Spring 1:36:32 The Roses in Bloom 1:43:19 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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 The Wizard of Oz, as L. Frank Baum wrote it in 1900. The shoes are silver in the original, the Good Witch of the North leaves a kiss on Dorothy's forehead that keeps her safe on the whole road, the Emerald City hands out green spectacles at its gates, a field of poppies lies deep with sleep, and there is a small quiet country made entirely of china. The road is yellow brick and the pace is a walking pace, all the way there and all the way home. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are witches in it, but the ones we walk beside are kind, and the road stays even underfoot the whole way. 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 10 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 10 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 yellow brick road at a bedtime pace. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 2:41 The House on the Gray Prairie 12:05 The Silver Shoes and the Kiss 25:01 The Road of Yellow Brick 38:40 The Man of Tin 49:10 The Cowardly Lion 1:01:40 The Field of Scarlet Poppies 1:12:41 The Emerald City and the Green Spectacles 1:26:03 The Four Faces of Oz 1:38:06 The Golden Cap 1:54:43 The Man Behind the Screen 2:15:07 The China Country and Glinda the Good 2:32:07 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to the Ballad of Mulan, the short poem from the Northern Wei dynasty that began the whole legend, told long and slow. A daughter at her loom hears the army lists calling her father's name, so she buys a horse at one market, a saddle at another, a bridle at a third, a long whip at the fourth, and rides north in his place. Twelve years she serves, and her comrades never know. When the emperor offers her any reward she can name, she asks only for a swift horse home, and the ballad closes with its famous gentle riddle, two hares running side by side through the grass. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a war at the far edges of it, but it stays at the edges; the story keeps its eyes on the loom, the river, the mountain road, and the long ride home. 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 9 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 9 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 daughter who rode twelve years in her father's place. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 3:15 The Loom That Faced the Door 8:57 Twelve Scrolls of Paper 15:54 The Four Markets 26:22 The Yellow River Nights 34:53 The Horses of the Black Mountain 41:46 Ten Thousand Miles Like Flying 50:37 Twelve Winters, Twelve Springs 58:29 The Hall of Light 1:04:56 The Road Home 1:12:39 The Dress by the Window 1:20:18 The Two Hares 1:27:56 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

A slow, calm 3 hour storybook sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Robin Hood, from the oldest ballads and the Gest of Robyn Hode, the greenwood as it always was. A tall stranger met on a narrow bridge with a quarterstaff, a friar who carries an outlaw across a river and back again, a golden arrow won in plain sight, a poor knight lent four hundred pounds and his dignity with it, and a king who comes to the greenwood to see for himself. Sherwood at dusk is one of the calmest places any story has ever kept. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There are arrows in it, but they are aimed only at willow wands and targets, and nobody in the greenwood goes to sleep hungry or afraid. 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 8 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 8 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 greenwood and its gentleman outlaw. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 2:24 The Greenwood 9:59 The Stranger on the Bridge 18:54 The Miller's Son and the Man in Scarlet 26:37 The Knight at Dinner 34:31 Four Hundred Pounds 44:04 The Friar at the River 51:15 The Golden Arrow 56:20 The Splitting of the Wand 1:03:15 The King Comes to the Greenwood 1:09:35 Lincoln Green 1:16:54 The Turning of the Year 1:25:49 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

A slow, calm 3 hour Greek mythology sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Everyone knows the ten years at Troy. Tonight is the story just before it, the half forgotten season when the war was still only a rumor crossing the water. A king plows his own field with salt to escape an oath he invented himself, and loses the one contest of wits he ever plainly lost. A goddess hides her son, the greatest warrior the world will ever know, in the last place anyone would think to look, among a king's daughters, in a borrowed dress. A peddler comes ashore with silks and a single spear, and one horn note undoes all the hiding in a heartbeat. And at the end, in one small bay, a thousand ships gather and wait for nothing in the world but a wind. This is Part 2 of 2. If you have not yet heard how Odysseus himself came to be, that story, The Making of Odysseus, is on this channel too. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. A war is coming for these men, but it stays far off all night, on the far side of the sea. Not one sword is raised in this telling. There are only farewells, disguises, clever men being clever, and ships gathering on quiet water. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning. A Sleeping Almanac special · Part 2 of 2 · The full Odyssey season continues on this channel Chapters (real times, computed from the build audio, see status note above) 0:00 Welcome 7:07 Chapter One: The Sail with No Business There 16:42 Chapter Two: The Warning of Twenty Years 23:56 Chapter Three: The King Who Sowed Salt 34:33 Chapter Four: The Leaving of Ithaca 45:28 Chapter Five: The Boy with Two Fates 53:40 Chapter Six: The Island of Hidden Things 1:01:47 Chapter Seven: The Peddler at the Door 1:11:16 Chapter Eight: The Horn and the Spear 1:21:03 Chapter Nine: The Bay of a Thousand Fires 1:29:52 Chapter Ten: The Counting of the Ships 1:44:55 Chapter Eleven: The Last Night at Aulis 1:50:18 Chapter Twelve: Goodnight. And the Sails Going Out at Dawn 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel This is a bedtime story for adults, made for sleep, insomnia, relaxation, and quiet nights when the mind will not switch off. Drawn from Homer's Iliad, including the Catalogue of Ships, Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Hyginus' Fabulae, and the summary of the lost Cypria. These are retellings. Where the old stories turn toward fear or cruelty, we turn gently toward comfort, choosing the telling that serves a calm night. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET. 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This channel uses AI tools (script research, narration, visuals) under the direction of a human editor. Every episode is researched, reviewed, and revised before publication. Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v1sADE-DYKg New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6pm ET. #SleepStory #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Odysseus

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: 0:00 Welcome 2:35 The Wish by the Water 7:57 The Feast of the Golden Plates 15:07 The Gifts of the Wise Women 22:00 The Thirteenth Wish, and the Twelfth 27:03 The Kingdom Without Spindles 33:34 The Tower Room 40:57 The Castle Falls Asleep 50:47 The Hedge of Briars 59:15 A Hundred Years of Quiet 1:06:52 The Hedge in Bloom 1:16:19 The Waking House 1:28:20 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. The Sleeping Almanac is three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off. No music that swells, no sudden voices, no reason to open your eyes. Just one calm voice and a story old enough that people have been falling asleep to it for three thousand years. Four seasons so far. Norse gods. Egyptian nights. Old fairy tales retold long and slow. And Season Four, the Odyssey, told across twelve nights from the wrong shore to a bed carved from a living olive tree. New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday night. Everything we make: gildenmyth.com 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com

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 Alice in Wonderland, as Lewis Carroll first told it in 1865. A golden afternoon on a riverbank, a white rabbit with a waistcoat pocket and a watch inside it, a fall so long and slow it feels like floating, and a tea table where the dormouse sleeps peacefully through everything. The whole adventure is a dream from its first page to its last, which makes it the safest adventure there is, and at the end the dreamer simply wakes on the same warm bank, with her head in her sister's lap. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. It is all a dream on a riverbank, and the story knows it, so nothing in it can follow you anywhere except into sleep. 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 6 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 6 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, a dream on a riverbank. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 2:50 A Golden Afternoon, and a White Rabbit with a Watch 9:46 The Little Golden Key 18:52 The Pool of Tears and the Caucus Race 35:27 The Rabbit Sends in Little Bill 48:35 Advice from a Caterpillar 1:01:08 Pepper, a Pig, and a Grin Without a Cat 1:16:52 The Maddest Tea Party in All the World 1:33:24 Painting the Roses Red 1:49:44 The Mock Turtle's Story 2:06:12 The Lobster Quadrille, and Who Stole the Tarts 2:25:41 Alice's Evidence, and a Pack of Cards 2:37:59 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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 Peter Pan, as J. M. Barrie wrote him in 1911. A nursery at number fourteen, a large gentle dog for a nurse, a boy who comes back for his lost shadow, and directions no map has ever improved: second star to the right, and straight on till morning. There are mermaids in a lagoon, a patient Never bird on her floating nest, a little house built around a sleeping girl, and a window kept open at the end, because some windows always are. Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a pirate in it, but tonight he is more pocket watch than menace, and the nursery window stays open the whole time. 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 5 of 12 · The Storybook Season Where this sits: Part 5 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 boy who would not grow up. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 2:39 The Nursery at Number Fourteen 16:41 The Boy Who Came for His Shadow 37:11 Second Star to the Right 46:57 The Island That Woke 59:45 The Little House 1:09:53 The Home Under the Ground 1:20:30 The Mermaids' Lagoon 1:33:15 The Never Bird 1:40:20 Wendy's Story 1:48:02 The Gentleman and the Clock 1:57:20 The Window Left Open 2:04:53 Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac New episodes every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 🕯 Sleep stories from history, Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com 📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com 🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel 🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.