The Seven Ravens Transcript
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host00:06
But the morning star arose and gave her the drumstick of a chicken and said If you have not that drumstick, you cannot open the glass mountain. And in the glass mountain are your brothers. What?
Micah (Knob Twister)Host00:22
Welcome to Tales of Bedlam. I'm your host, micah. I also host as well. We are Tales of Bedlam, a podcast completely devoted to the Brothers Grimm fairy tales and other fairy tales that might just tickle our fancy.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host00:39
That means we're not completely devoted to them, but that's fine. Yes, I wouldn't argue with you we love grim fairy tales.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host00:44
Fairy tales and we love to talk about them yeah, we do. We love to talk about anything, but fairy tales are good we are doing the seven ravens today to make this podcast even more amazing. If that is even possible, it's not even remotely possible, but we'll.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host01:04
But we can buy Micah some fancy swimwear to pose with and we'll put it on the website.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host01:12
So today's tale is the Seven Ravens. Dustin, take it away.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host01:18
Oh, I was going to mention that you're speedo, but we'll just skip that. The Seven Ravens there was once a man who had seven sons, hmm, and still he had no daughter. However, he much wished for one. This never ends well. Never in the history of all the stories we've read has anybody wished for a child and had one, and it ended well.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host01:50
Hmm, no Well, no Well, anybody wished for a child and had one and it ended well.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host01:52
Hmm, no well, no well, you could say, it ended well, but it's just, it's just heartbreaking it's hell in the middle part yeah, just you know what, if you've got seven sons, be, be happy, just get yourself fixed. You don't need to have any more kids anyway.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host02:07
Be content. They will have grandchildren. You'll be fine, one of them will.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host02:11
It will really be fine. At length, his wife again gave him hope of a child, and when it came into the world it was a girl. Woohoo.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host02:23
Dun, dun dun.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host02:24
The joy was great, but the child was sickly and small. It had. Sickly and small, and it had to be privately baptized on account of his weakness, because we can't publicly baptize a weak child, apparently.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host02:40
Well, they wouldn't have been able to probably move the child to the local monastery because of the sickness. The father sent one of the boys in haste to the spring to fetch water for the baptism. The other six went with him and as each of them wanted to be first to fill it, the jug fell into the well. There they stood and did not know what to do, and none of them dared go to the home.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host03:09
That sounds like you send a bunch of boys to a job. That's exactly what happens. They screw it up and they just stand around looking at each other. I don't know what happened. I don't know it, as they still did not return. The father grew impatient and said they have certainly forgotten it. While playing some game, the wicked boys Wicked. He knew about the boys. He became afraid that the girl would have to die without being baptized. Wow, and in his anger cried I wish the boys were all turned into ravens.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host03:47
What is with parents wishing their children?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host03:51
as animals? I don't know, but they had no water at all in the house, nothing. They didn't even like have a glass of water set aside somewhere.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host04:04
They could baptize the poor dying kid with whatever I think that they said that it needed to be no spring. I needed where was it.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host04:14
They sent him to fetch water for the baptism from the spring, but I don't think that you particularly need spring water to baptize somebody. You just need water that's been blessed by whatever priest is doing it.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host04:27
Maybe the boys had drank all the water and they needed more. I don't know who knows. Hardly was a word spoken before he heard a whirr. Whirring A whirring of wings over his head. Looked up and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host04:46
Ruh-roh.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host04:47
The parents could not withdraw the curse and however sad they were at the loss of their seven sons, they still to some extent comforted themselves with their dear little daughter, who soon grew strong and every day became more beautiful. Of course, she did Not more smart, not more cunning, not more.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host05:14
Right, self-reliant, assured Fierce.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host05:22
Just beauty.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host05:23
That's all that matters in this world. Screw the boys that got turned into ravens. We have a beautiful girl. For a long time she did not know that she had brothers, for her parents were careful not to mention them before her. They lied why. But one day she accidentally heard some people saying of herself that the girl was certainly beautiful. But that in reality, she was to blame for the misfortune which had befallen her seven brothers. It was her fault. She was a sick little baby.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host06:00
People. Then she was much troubled and went to her father and mother and asked if it was true that she had had brothers and what had become of them. The parents now dared keep the secret no longer, but said that what had been fallen her brothers was the will of heaven and her birth had only been the innocent cause.
06:24
And her birth had only been the innocent cause For the maiden, took it to her heart daily and thought she must save her brothers. Now, wait a minute. How is it the girl's fault? It was the father who said I wish they were ravens.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host06:38
No, they didn't say it was her fault. They said her birth had been the innocent cause.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host06:43
I know. I think the cause was the father who muttered the curse.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host06:49
I don't disagree with that. But if she would not have been born sickly and they would not sent the brothers there, and then the curse would have never been uttered, so her birth was ultimately the cause, yeah, no, no, no.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host07:05
The cause was the father saying I wish the boys were all turned into ravens. I agree, but I guess he can't be troubled with being blamed for such a thing oh, because this is, this is parents in the brother's grim world, and they all suck.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host07:23
They're terrible, terrible parents. She had no rest or peace until she set out secretly and went forth into the wide world to search for her brothers and set them free. Let it cost her what it might, let's see.
07:38
She was pretty and good-hearted, that's good she took nothing with her but a little ring belonging to her parents as a keepsake, a loaf of bread against hunger and a little pitcher of water against thirst or in case some other sickly kid needed to be baptized. And that's not what it said. And a little chair as provision against weariness. So she's just carrying around a chair, Like a little chair has provision against weariness.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host08:05
So she's just carrying around a chair Like a camping chair when I used to backpack we had camping chairs.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host08:11
She's got a little portable, because the 19th century German girl had a portable camping chair. Yeah, probably folded up, put in a nice little bag with a little string pulled tight at the top yeah, she ordered it on amazon. No, we've gone past that shameless and now she went continually onwards, far, far, to the end of the world with her loaf of bread and pitcher of water. Then she came to the sun.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host08:46
Oh what wow, she went a long ways that's not the end of the world.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host08:52
We're going to the end of the solar system. It must be a flat earth. It is a flat earth. You didn't know that? That's a whole another podcast. But it too was hot and terrible. Oh wait a minute. But it was too hot and terrible. Oh wait a minute. But it was too hot and terrible. And devoured little children, whoa Mean son. Hastily she ran away and ran to the moon, but it was far too cold and also awful and malicious. And when it saw the child it said I smell, I smell the flesh of men. What the moon?
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Micah (Knob Twister)Host12:03
So the little girl has traveled the earth. She went to the sun. It tried to burn her. She went to the moon. It wanted to eat her. Wow, Now where's she going to go?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host12:20
I don't know, but you're freaking me out a little bit.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host12:23
At this, she ran swiftly away and came to the stars, which were kind and good to her, and each of them sat on its own particular little chair.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host12:35
Oh, they had the camp chairs as well, apparently, Gosh there's a lot of little chairs in this story.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host12:41
Just the little little chairs. They're just so cute.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host12:45
But the morning star rose and gave her the drumstick of a chicken what? And said If you have not that drumstick, you cannot open the glass mountain. And in the glass mountain are your brothers.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host13:08
What? What glass mountain? And in the glass mountain are your brothers.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host13:11
What, what the stars gave her?
Micah (Knob Twister)Host13:14
the drumstick of a chicken of course which is a key that opens the glass mountain obviously um okie dokie like we've said before, they were eating mushrooms these stories, you think you've heard it all and they just keep coming up with new stuff you couldn't even.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host13:37
You couldn't make that up if you tried oh, oh, I, I could really you if you were to just sit around thinking of something, I wonder what would open a glass mountain a drumstick, the drumstick of a chicken no, I would have probably gone with the wing.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host13:55
It's more key, like, but uh no, no.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host14:01
I need a key for my mountain. I wonder what.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host14:07
Some chicken wings.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host14:08
I do like chicken wings With spicy garlic sauce Shut up.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host14:12
That's what happened. She ate it and then she didn't have a key.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host14:17
Don't Spoiler.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host14:20
The maiden took the drumstick, wrapped it carefully in a cloth and went onwards again until she came to the glass mountain oh wait.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host14:29
She walked all the way to the sun and all the way to the moon and all over the world, but didn't see this glass mountain before well, she didn't know that her brothers were in it so she just walked by it and was like, oh, that's a nice glass mountain.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host14:43
Well, it is a glass mountain. Should she not have been able to see into it?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host14:48
I don't know it's again doesn't make any sense.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host14:51
The door was shut and she thought she would take out the drumstick. But when she did the cloth it was empty. Oh no, and she had lost the good star's empty.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host15:06
Oh no.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host15:07
And she had lost the good star's present. Oh no, Dum, dum, dum she lost the drumstick. How careless she just forgot that she had eaten it.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host15:17
She'd only taken a loaf of bread and a pitcher of water and then traveled to the sun and the moon. I'm pretty sure she'd ran out of food.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host15:26
I'd be hungry by now. I'm hungry right now.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host15:29
Let's go get some wings After this is done. What was she to do now? She wished to rescue her brothers and had no key to the glass mountain. The good sister took out a knife, cut off one of her little fingers and put it in the door and succeeded in opening it. Because that's what I would do.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host15:54
How does that even? How does that equal a chicken?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host16:03
so drumstick just the same. I was to given uh to be giving a chicken drumstick and said this will open the door to the glass mountain and I lost the drumstick. The first thing I would do would cut off my finger and try to stick it in the heel. No, I would go find another chicken drumstick and make fry up another drumstick and try that drumstick that is.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host16:35
And then?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host16:36
if that didn't work, then I might cut off my finger and put it in the hole. No, I still wouldn't do that Doesn't make any sense. So she cut off one of her little fingers, put it in the door, and that opened it. Yay, when she had gone inside, a little dwarf came to meet her who said my child, what are you looking for? I am looking for my brothers. Seven ravens, she replied. The dwarf said the lord ravens are not at home, but if you await here till they come, step in thereupon, the dwarf carried the raven's dinner in on seven little plates and in seven little glasses.
17:20
On seven little glasses, yeah, and the little sister ate a morsel from each plate. Is this like the three bears again?
Micah (Knob Twister)Host17:30
Or the seven dwarves.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host17:31
Yeah, yeah Recurring theme that we don't have any idea what it means. And from each little glass she took a sip, but in the last little glass she dropped the ring which she had brought away with her and did she do that on? Purpose or by accident? I think it was probably an accident. I was just gonna say that because she's dropping chicken wings everywhere. She's apparently pretty kind of clumsy here. I don't know.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host18:04
Suddenly she heard a whirling of wings and a rushing through the air, and then the little dwarf said Now the Lord Ravens are flying home. Then they came and wanted to eat and drink and looked for the little plates and glasses. Then said one from the other Squawk who is?
Micah (Knob Twister)Host18:22
eating something from the other. Squawk who is eating something from my plate? Squawk who is drunk out of my little glass? Squawk? It was against his mouth. What? Oh sorry, Try again, it was a human mouth.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host18:40
And when the seventh came to the bottom of the glass, the ring rolled against his mouth. Then he looked at it and saw that it was the ring belonging to his father and mother and said Squawk.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host18:53
God granted that our sister may be here, and then we shall be free.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host19:00
Oh my.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host19:00
God. Now, how from a ring do they come to the conclusion that their sister is there?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host19:07
Apparently it was a very distinctive ring. She took it as a keepsake to remember her parents.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host19:12
I don't know man. Could you not have been like? One of our family is here.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host19:18
Um, true, it could have been the mother or the father, or they could have had, you know, seven more kids. Apparently they didn't believe in birth control, who knows? And last they knew, the little girl was dying that's true I agree with you. That makes't make sense. When the maiden who was standing behind the door watching heard that wish, that was a wish God grant that our sister may be here oh, it was a wish. They were just hoping. That's what that meant.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host19:53
Was it.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host19:54
They were saying God grant that our sister may be here, then we shall be free. I see so they were wishing that she would be there. Okay, that makes more sense. Makes a little more sense, not much more but a little, and a little is always good.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host20:13
They can always be like and hopefully she brought the chicken leg.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host20:17
Yeah, because we're hungry.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host20:19
The drumstick.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host20:22
We're tired of this little small glasses and plates. We wanted some chicken, okay. So when the maiden who was standing behind the door watching heard that wish, she came forth and on this all the ravens were restored to their human form again and they embraced and kissed each other and went joyfully home.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host20:42
So maybe it was her fault, because how does she break the curse?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host20:49
It's still not her fault. I don't. I never thought it was her fault.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host20:55
I agree it's not her fault, but it's so weird that just her presence breaks the curse.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host21:05
So when her father wished that all his sons were ravens, that energy revived the energy or whatever, what I'm just going out of theory here I'm following. Revived the daughter, okay and then that, uh, now she's good, so she takes that energy back to them and it turns them back into people, gives it back the energy that it took to turn them into ravens. She doesn't need anymore, because now she's strong and healthy, so she I'll buy it.
21:36
I'll buy it disperses it back to the ravens and now they're people again and they go home and they're happily and joyful and they don't punch the dad in the face and say why did you turn into a ravens jerk?
Micah (Knob Twister)Host21:48
I mean it's as plausible as any other explanation of the crazy story. Who knows?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host21:55
it didn't make any sense. Was there a moral in this one? There wasn't don't lose your chicken legs.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host22:04
Your drumsticks? No, don't lose them when you wrap them up. Put them in your pocket check it occasionally to make sure it's still there. Don't eat it. You need it as your key.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host22:15
Yeah, If someone gives you a chicken drumstick and says this is the key to the glass mountain, just keep track of it, right?
Micah (Knob Twister)Host22:24
I guess so.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host22:27
Or else you'll have to cut off a finger.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host22:31
That's not good. Very odd story.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host22:33
All right, we did it again. We got to the end.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host22:39
We're still alive For now. Dun, dun, dun.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter)Host22:44
Somebody might die in the next episode.
Micah (Knob Twister)Host22:50
We don't even know what the next episode is. Good night, bye.