Slavic and European Folklore: Complete Stories of Gods, Spirits and Legends | Folklore for Sleep

A slow, quiet journey through the old folklore of Slavic and European lands, made for falling asleep to.Hours of gods, spirits and half-remembered legends, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.These are the stories that came out of forests and rivers and long winters, told by people who lived close to all of it. Old gods who were worshipped for centuries before anyone wrote their names down. Spirits that belonged to a particular house, a particular pond, a particular stretch of woodland, and had to be kept on good terms. Figures who came out at certain times of year and not others. Some of it is strange, some of it is gentle, and a lot of it was simply a way of explaining a world that hadn't been explained yet.But the point of this recording isn't really the legends. It's the hour or two spent drifting through them. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere in the forest and wake up much later, deep in another story entirely, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Slavic and European folklore, Egyptian tales and old stories from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.