Asatru Folk Assembly - January 12, 2024


Bremen Town Musicians (Academy Storytime)


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

126.42

Word count

1,180

Sentence count

71

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

3

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Summary

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The story of the Bremen Town Musicians, by Grimm's Fairy tale by Giselle McNallan Read by Ms. McAllan Book Summary: A donkey sets out to find a safe place to live after his master orders him to leave his home.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hi boys and girls, story time with Githia Sheila McNallan again, and this time I have
00:00:27.780 another Grimm's fairy tale but this one doesn't have kings or queens or princesses or giants or
00:00:35.200 funny little elves but it does have animals and all of us who have pets of our own know how
00:00:41.060 special our animals are. Well these animals can all talk and they're friends but they all have
00:00:47.800 something in common. They need to find a safe place to live. This is our story.
00:00:58.660 The Bremen Town Musicians
00:01:01.380 Once upon a time there was a donkey whose master had made him carry heavy sacks to the mill
00:01:11.000 for many years. One day he overheard his master say that as the donkey was now old and could no
00:01:18.100 longer do the work, he planned to get rid of him as soon as he could. But the donkey did not wait
00:01:24.660 around to reap such a dreadful reward. Instead, he set off for Bremen, a city in Germany, where he
00:01:31.860 thought he could perform as a town musician. On the way, he came upon a poor old hound dog lying by
00:01:39.340 the side of the road. The hound was panting as if he had just run a long way. Why are you so out of
00:01:46.160 breath? asked the donkey. Oh dear, cried the dog. I've just escaped from my master. He was going to
00:01:53.560 have me killed because I am old and can no longer hunt. But whatever will I do now? Come with me,
00:02:01.180 said the donkey. I'm going to Bremen to become a town musician and I could use another voice.
00:02:09.040 The dog happily agreed and off they went. Before long, they came upon a sad gray cat
00:02:16.100 sitting in the road. The cat sighed and said, Meow! I'm no use anymore. My teeth are blunt,
00:02:25.840 and I would rather sit by the hearth and purr than catch mice. My mistress wanted to drown me, 0.99
00:02:33.420 so I've left home, but now I have nowhere to go. I'm with us to Bremen, said the donkey. 0.98
00:02:40.880 We're musicians, and I'm sure you know how to sing a fine song.
00:02:45.520 The cat agreed, and the three animals continued on their way.
00:02:50.780 As they passed a farmyard, they heard a rooster crowing with all his might.
00:02:55.980 Your crows are enough to pierce a bone, exclaimed the donkey.
00:03:04.220 If you're a rooster crowing, said the rooster sadly.
00:03:08.600 my mistress told the cook that tomorrow I must be made into soup. The rooster was immediately
00:03:16.800 invited to come with them to Bremen and he happily accepted. But Bremen was too far off to be reached
00:03:24.360 him one day and so toward evening they began to look for a place to spend the night. At last they
00:03:31.640 settled on a tree in the woods. The donkey and the dog lay at its foot. The cat climbed up among
00:03:39.400 the branches, and the rooster flew right up to the top. And here, the cat and the rooster.
00:03:51.480 But before the rooster went to sleep, he looked east. He looked west, north, and south,
00:03:58.280 as was his habit and suddenly he spied a light shining from a house in the distance
00:04:05.220 and he called down to his friends. The animals eager for a more comfortable spot to pass the
00:04:12.640 night quickly agreed to head toward that house but when they arrived and peered through the windows
00:04:19.740 They realized it was not an ordinary house but a robber's den. Inside there was nothing but a
00:04:28.500 fireplace and a long table and around the table sat robbers feasting on all kinds of delicacies
00:04:36.300 and counting out the money they had stolen. I think this house will suit us fine said the
00:04:45.240 rooster. The others agreed, and so they devised a plan to frighten away the robbers. The donkey
00:04:52.920 placed his four feet on the windowsill, and the dog climbed on his back, and the cat stood on top
00:05:01.860 of the dog, and the rooster flew up and perched on the cat's head, and then all of them began to sing.
00:05:15.240 You see, look at all of them.
00:05:18.240 Do you see the men inside the house?
00:05:21.240 They sang as loud as they could.
00:05:24.240 The donkey brayed, the dog barked, the cat meowed, and the rooster crowed.
00:05:31.240 Their music made such a noise that the robbers were sure a ghost or goblin had come to haunt the place.
00:05:38.240 Terrified, they ran away as fast as they could.
00:05:41.240 The four companions then went into the house and gobbled up all the remains of the robber's feast.
00:05:46.620 Their bellies full, they all laid down for the night.
00:05:50.760 The donkey settled outside by the stable, the dog stretched out behind the door,
00:05:57.580 the cat settled beside the warm hearth, and the rooster perched on the roof.
00:06:04.220 And soon they were all forced to sleep.
00:06:07.080 meanwhile the robbers were watching the house from the woods as the hours passed their leader
00:06:13.980 began to feel silly for having been frightened and when he saw that no light was burning and
00:06:19.180 that all was quiet he sent one of his men to explore the house now remember who's at the house
00:06:26.080 quietly the robber crept into the kitchen to light a candle and when he mistook the cat's
00:06:33.440 glowing eyes for fiery live coals. And when he held the match to them, however, the cat leaped
00:06:42.040 into the robber's face, spitting and scratching as fiercely as he could. The man was so terrified
00:06:49.740 that he ran to the back door straight into the dog. The startled hound gave him a hard bite on
00:06:57.960 his leg. Howling with pain, the robber ran past the stable where the donkey gave him a swift kick
00:07:06.060 with his hind leg. All the noise woke up the rooster who immediately crowed,
00:07:11.940 Cock-a-doodle-doo! And when the robber reached the others, he was trembling so hard that he could
00:07:18.940 hardly speak. What happened, they asked. There's a wicked witch in the house, cried the poor man.
00:07:26.600 she spat on me and scratched my face with her long claws at the door there's a man with a knife 0.99
00:07:33.420 who stabbed me in the leg out in the yard there's a big monster who beat me with a club 0.98
00:07:40.060 and the judge was sitting on top of the roof shouting bring that rascal here
00:07:46.800 after that none of the robbers dare return to the house ever again but the four bremintown
00:07:55.300 musicians liked the place so much that they decided to stay there forever. And for all I know,
00:08:03.760 they are there to this day. And there they are, the four musicians. Do you think they made pretty
00:08:13.420 music? Probably not. But did it work? Yes, it did. The music they played, they needed to, and it drove
00:08:20.040 the robbers out of the house. That was a fun story. I hope you liked it. There'll be another
00:08:25.660 one soon from me and other people as well. Stay tuned for all of our wonderful Auster Academy
00:08:31.420 story times. Thank you for being here. Bye-bye.
00:08:50.040 Thank you.