Hello kids we at BKFK are taking a much needed break but that doesn't mean we don't have a story for you this week

I'm sure you know by now that we produce extra stories for our patron subscribers.

Without them, we couldn't possibly produce the show,

so we try to make a little something extra for them.

We thought we'd share one of these stories with you.

So let's hear it from a much younger Ruby.

Jorinda and Jorindel.

There was once an old castle that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy forest,

and in the castle lived an old fairy.

Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased during the day she flew about in the form of an hour or cracked about like a cat.

But at night she always took the form of an old woman.

When any young man came within a hundred paces of her castle, he became paralyzed, stuck

in place, and could not move a step till she came and set him free,

which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again.

But when any woman came within that space, she was changed into a bird,

and the fairy put into a cage and hung her up in a chamber in the castle. There were 700 of these

cages hanging in the castle and all with beautiful birds trapped in them.

Now there was once a maiden whose name was Gerinder

and a shepherd lad whose name was Gerindel who was very fond of her and they were soon to be married.

One day they went to walk in the forest and Jorandel said we must take care that we don't go too near to the Ferris castle.

It was a beautiful evening.

The last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees and the turtle doves sang from the tall birches.

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