Fairy Tale Fix

Nekonokai, Creature of the Night, and The Headless Mule & The Hook, Screaming Jenny, Jack O’ Lantern

We tried to cram a little of everything into our Halloween episode! Cat spirits, devilish encounters, and shapechanging monsters fill Abbie’s stories this week: The Nekonokai from Japan, Creature of the Night and The Headless Mule – both from Brazil. Kelsey follows up with some excellent American horror folklore as retold by S. E. Schlosser:The Hook, Screaming Jenny, and a sequel to an old favorite: Jack O’ Lantern.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Melissa Buron
Tamra Derry
Dana Domko
Caroline Donham
Angel Espinoza
Giselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
Elizabeth Masoud
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Rabia Sadiq
Dami Schlobohm
Josie The Mountain Troll

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of JapanBrazilian FolktalesSpooky Campfire Stories on AmericanFolklore.netSpooky Campfire StoriesSpooky SouthSpooky Maryland

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The Robber Bridegroom & The Magic Swan Geese and & The Unktomi, Two Widows, and the Red Plums

Welcome to the worst Babysitter’s Club ever. Kelsey starts the episode off with what we think is a scary Halloween story with the German Brothers Grimm tale, The Robber Bridegroom, along with a Slavic #BabaYagaAutumn tale The Magic Swan Geese (everybody knows about the magic swan geese, duh). Abbie finishes this spooky season episode with the worst fairy tale we’ve ever told on the podcast (we’ve said that before but this time, we mean it – trigger warning parents) with a Sioux tale: The Unktomi, Two Widows, and the Red Plums. Listeners beware. Oh, and happy six year podversary of Fairy Tale Fix!

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Melissa Buron
Tamra Derry
Dana Domko
Caroline Donham
Angel Espinoza
Giselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
Elizabeth Masoud
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Rabia Sadiq
Dami Schlobohm
Josie The Mountain Troll

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmThe Magic Swan GeeseMonstrous Tales

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Prince Spinhead and Miss Snow White & Schippeitaro

The seasonal wheel is turning and we’re bringing you some autumnal themes with Abbie’s Dutch story, Prince Spinhead and Miss Snow White. Kelsey brings just a hint of spooky season to the episode with the classic Japanese folk tale, Schippeitaro.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Melissa Buron
Tamra Derry
Dana Domko
Caroline Donham
Angel Espinoza
Giselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
Elizabeth Masoud
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Rabia Sadiq
Dami Schlobohm
Josie The Mountain Troll

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!Dutch Fairy Tales for Young FolksSchippeitaroThe Violet Fairy Book

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The Boy and the Dragon & The Dragon Princess

We are keeping the dragon stories coming this week! Kelsey kicks off this episode with The Boy and the Dragon, likely originally by the Micmac and Blackfoot indigenous peoples of Canada, written down by Cyrus Macmillan. Abbie follows it up by taking us deep into the sea, where she reads The Dragon Princess, a Chinese tale that has everything Abbie’s been hoping for in a dragon story, minus the story part. It’s a good thing we’re here to fix it.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Melissa Buron
Tamra Derry
Dana Domko
Caroline Donham
Angel Espinoza
Giselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
Elizabeth Masoud
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Rabia Sadiq
Dami Schlobohm
Josie The Mountain Troll

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!The Boy and the DragonGlooskap’s Country and Other Indian Tales by Cyrus MacmillanNative American Legends: Chenoo (Chenu)Kyle Gordon – Mr. Jambo (feat. Barry Bergen) [Official Music Video]

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Stan Bolovan & Auld Cruivie

We’re back, baby! Rested, hydrated, and ready to make all your dreams come true: specifically the Dragon and Scary Tree related ones. Abbie kicks things off with the Romanian tale of Stan Bolovan from RMS’s Book of Dragons, followed immediately by Kelsey’s telling of Scottish folktale Auld Cruivie. We are confused but pleased to say that for once…the men are alright!

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Melissa Buron
Tamra Derry
Dana Domko
Caroline Donham
Angel Espinoza
Giselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
Elizabeth Masoud
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Rabia Sadiq
Dami Schlobohm
Josie The Mountain Troll

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!A Book of DragonsWoodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

PATREON PREVIEW Bonus Episode 18: The Justice Order

In this previous Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, coming soon to a theater near you is the tale of THE JUSTICE ORDER – Seven kickass strangers will band together to fight for what’s right in Germany of yore. Or that’s what Abbie and Kelsey wish anyway for the continuation of The Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Six Servants. After that, we finally get a story where the prince actually does something himself, and deserves his rewards in the Ruth Manning-Sanders gem, Stupid Head.

Fairy Tale Fix will return in August 2026.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Melissa Buron
Tamra Derry
Dana Domko
Caroline Donham
Angel Espinoza
Giselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
Elizabeth Masoud
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Rabia Sadiq
Dami Schlobohm
Josie The Mountain Troll

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmA Book of Princes & Princesses

Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

The Donkey Lettuce & The Sun Takes An Oath

In this previous Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, Kelsey reads The Donkey Lettuce that follows a sweet young hunter that finds out the hard way that witches always be schemin’. Meanwhile, Abbie tells us a really unsatisfying creationism story, The Sun Takes An Oath.

Fairy Tale Fix will return in August 2026.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Angel Espinoza
Gisselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Elizabeth Masoud
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Tamra Derry
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Dana Domko
Cait Williams

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!A Book of WitchesThe Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

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The Wedding of Mrs. Fox & The Leeshy Cat and The Snake’s Treasure

Strap in for a Jumbo Sized #HotGoblinSummer kick off as Kelsey tells the unhinged Grimm’s fairy tale, The Wedding of Mrs. Fox, and then a listener recommendation from our favorite: Ruth Manning-Sanders, The Leeshy Cat. Abbie finishes up perfectly for our summer break and leaves you with The Snake’s Treasure.

Fairy Tale Fix will return in August 2026.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Angel Espinoza
Gisselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Elizabeth Masoud
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Tamra Derry
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Dana Domko
Cait Williams

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics: The Marriage of Mrs. FoxGrimm’s Complete Fairy TalesA Book of Cats and CreaturesThe Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

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The Twelve Huntsmen & The Unicorn (“El Oricuerno”)

A very happy Pride to you and yours! This episode is all about gender and kissing the people you want to, with a little vengeance sprinkled on top. Abbie recounts the Brothers’ Grimm tale of The Twelve Huntsman, which is a story about true love, disguise, the supposed gender binary, and a lion that’s either trolling hard or deeply anxious about all of it. Kelsey follows after with a Spanish fairy tale: The Unicorn, a magical story about community gender anxiety, disguise, true love, and more hunting.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Angel Espinoza
Gisselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Elizabeth Masoud
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Tamra Derry
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Dana Domko
Cait Williams

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!The Twelve HuntsmenThis Princess Kills MonstersThe Unicorn “El Orinuerno”Patchwork Fairy Tales Podcast by Laura Simons

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Yael & Mulwarra and The Weeping Mermaid of Loch Assynt & The Scottish Mermaid of Galloway

For this MerMay episode, we’re joined by a very special guest, Madeleine Lammel, Abbie’s sibling! Madeleine tells us the most romantic fairy tale we’ve ever heard on the pod, the Australian tale Yael and Murlwarra. Kelsey follows it up with two Scottish mermaid tales, The Weeping Mermaid of Loch Assynt and The Scottish Mermaid of Galloway. The question is, are these mermaids girly-pop, tragic, or scary? There’s only three kinds of mermaids, you know.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Angel Espinoza
Gisselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Elizabeth Masoud
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Tamra Derry
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Dana Domko
Cait Williams

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!Timeless Tales From Many LandsThe Weeping Mermaid of Loch AssyntThe Scottish Mermaid of GallowayScotland’s Stories: Historic Tales for Incredible Places

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The Siren’s Hunger, The Sea Remembers, & Rake Up!

It’s MerMay and we’re joined once again by our very own mystic siren, Chadwick Heiberg! Chadwick’s lifelong love of the sea brings two very satisfying mermaid tales (ha, get it?) for MerMay, starting with The Siren’s Hunger, where a familiar character returns but is forever changed – then a new kind of tale called The Sea Remembers, a timely reminder to respect our natural resources. Then, Abbie finishes with a Ruth Manning-Sanders story we can’t believe we haven’t read on the podcast yet, Rake Up! where a mermaid and her good friend Mark get their vengeance, as mermaids do.

Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe. You can find us onInstagram @fairytalefixpod, and chat with us on ourDiscord channel! Join our Patreon athttps://patreon.com/fairytalefixpod and visit us athttps://fairytalefixpod.com. Fairy Tale Fix Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Production.

Fairy Tale Fix is performed and produced by:

Abbie Lammel (@bonanzafamine)
Kelsey Horne (@monsieurcheval)
With tremendous thanks to our good friend, Dustin Alexander

In partnership with our Patreon producers:

Angel Espinoza
Gisselle M. Ingan
Cynthia Lammel
William Johnson
Elizabeth Masoud
Dami Schlobohm
Caroline Donham
Melissa Buron
Rabia Sadiq
Tamra Derry
Linda Kay Pardonnet
Dana Domko
Cait Williams

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Check out all the books from the show here!A Book of Mermaids

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Romance! Bloodlust! Two Headed Giants! Three Headed Giants! Demons! Cool names! Kelsey tells the Cornish legend of Jack the Giant Killer this episode, and it is everything. And yet, it still needed the Fixtresses help to add Feminism/Lesbians/More Epicness/One crucial renaming. Good thing for all of you we were here.

It's Irish fairy tale month (AKA the best time of the year)! Abbie reads an old Irish folk tale that's sure to bring a happy tear to your eye with The Spinners of Blessings. Then we take a sharp turn with Kelsey's dark Irish folk tale, The Abhartach, thought to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

What's so funny? Find out this week on Fairy Tale Fix (spoiler alert; it's us) as Abbie reads us the Sicilian fairy tale The Laughing Apples as written by our favorite, Ruth Manning-Sanders. This is a long one so strap in!

The best month of the year concludes with a little of everything we love in Irish fairy tales (with one notable exception). Kelsey spins a yarn about why you shouldn’t fuck with faerie raths, and then how to trick them into leaving you alone with The Fairies’ Revenge and The Hurling Match. Abbie delivers the ancient mythology and magical shenanigans first with the legend of the Man-Wolves of Ossory, then The Witches Excursion.

This week on Fairy Tale Fix, the horrors persist but so do we! Because we have to. Kelsey follows up on her promise to deliver some Chinese dragons in The Four Dragons, and then reads a short, truly WTF Chinese fairy tale The Magic Cask. Abbie reads a beautiful Russian tale we've both heard of but knew nothing about–The Princess and the Firebird.

Happy Lunar New Year! Abbie celebrates the onset of the Year of the Horse (her people!) with telling the tale of how the Chinese Zodiac came to be in the first place, followed up with a timeless horse trope here on Fairy Tale Fix with The Girl With The Horse’s Head (another excellent Chinese fairy tale). Kelsey follows up with another great FTF staple involving rich people being in hell: The Fiddler in Hell.

We're back from our winter break to start off 2026 with a couple of fairy tales our wonderful listeners suggested! Kelsey reads the Japanese tale, The Cat's Elopement, and it's as adorable as you'd imagine. Next she regales the Portuguese fairy tale, The Enchanted Maiden, and it's not exactly the story our listener suggested and we're sorry. Abbie cold-reads an absolutely delightful German tale from Schleswig-Holstein that follows an old woman minding her own business before heading to bed called One, Two, Three.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Come gather around the yule log and listen to some holiday tales: one with a big dose of colonialism (boo) before our favorite sad bisexual Victorian boy (yay!), Hans Christian Andersen brings the mood up for a change. Abbie tells a Mexican Christmas story about the poinsettia, or as we shall call it henceforth, cuetlaxōchitl (kwet-lah-SHO-shee-tl). Kelsey closes out 2025 with HCA's new year's tale, The Twelve Who Came by Mail, followed by The Snail and the Rosebush as a reminder to all of us to keep blooming and pay those who refuse no mind. Happy Holidays and see you next year!

Is anyone else having an existential crisis? No? Just us? Well strap in because it's real clear on Fairy Tale Fix this week! Kelsey tells a Swedish fairy tale about how we humans keep having to learn the same lesson of not allowing people to hoard wealth over and over again in The Barrel Bung. Abbie's story also has a strong message about the importance of taking care of people who some might deem unworthy in Japanese folk tale Ubasute-yama (Mother-Rid Hill). Our fix for both stories? Eat the rich.