EP 127: India- The Old Witch Who Lived in The Forest (Alice Elizabeth Dracott 1906)

A man with five daughters remarries. The new mom wants to get rid of the girls. So pops ditches them in the forest. At last they meet a witch who seems to be sweet, but one by one the sisters disappear. It is up to the youngest one to get out alive after she finds her sisters' heads in a box. Will she make it to safety? Source: Simla Village Tales; Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas by Alice Dracott Narrator: Dustin Steichmann Sound fx: Mixed sounds by Dustin Steichmann Music: Indians singing in Pushkar.mp3 by Anzbot on Freesound.org Podcast Shoutout: The History of Saqartvelo Georgia will take us through the history of the great country of Georgia, located in the Caucasus mountain region and by the black sea. Listener Shoutout: Gujarat, India Gujarat is derived from the Pratihar dynasty of gurjars, who ruled Gujarat in the 8th and 9th centuries CE.