1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: message for grownups looking for more calming entertainment at sleep time. 3 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: Subscribe to sleep Tight Premium and get access to our 4 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: complete back catalog of interruption free bedtime stories, guided meditations, 5 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: sleep sounds and sleep music, and special shout outs for 6 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: the kids. Visit sleep Typepremium dot com to begin your 7 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: free trial. A link can be found in our show notes. 8 00:00:44,200 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: Thank you. The spindle, the shuttle and the needle. There 9 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: was once a girl whose father and mother died while 10 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: she was still a little child. All alone in a 11 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: small house at the end of the village lived her grandmother, 12 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: who supported herself by spinning, weaving, and sewing. The old 13 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: woman took the child to live with her, kept her 14 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: to her work, and educated her in all that is good. 15 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: When the girl was fifteen, the old woman became ill. 16 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: She called the child to her bedside and said, dear daughter, 17 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: I feel my end drawing near. I leave you the 18 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: little house which will protect you from wind and weather, 19 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: and my spindle, shuttle and needle with which you can 20 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: earn your bread. Then she laid her hands on the 21 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: girl's head, blessed her, and said, only preserve the love 22 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: of God in your heart, and all will go well 23 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: with you. Thereupon she closed her eyes, and when she 24 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: was laid in the earth, the maiden followed the coffin, 25 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: weeping bitterly, and paid her the last mark of respect. 26 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: And now the maiden lived quite alone in the little house, 27 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: and was industrious and spun, wove and sewed, and the 28 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: blessing of the good old woman was on all that 29 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: she did. It seemed as if the flax in the 30 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 1: room increased of its own accord. And whenever she wove 31 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: a piece of cloth or carpet, or had made a shirt, 32 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: she had once found a buyer who paid her well 33 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: for it, so that she was in want of nothing, 34 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: and even had something to share with others. About this time, 35 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: the son of the king was traveling about the country 36 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: looking for a bride. He was not to choose a 37 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: poor girl, and did not want to have a rich one, 38 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: so he said, she shall be my wife. Who is 39 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: the poorest and at the same time the richest. When 40 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: he came to the village where the maiden lived, he asked, 41 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: as he did whenever he went, who was the richest 42 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: and also the poorest girl in the place. They first 43 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: named the richest. The poorest, they said, was the girl 44 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: who lived in a small house quite at the end 45 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: of the village. The rich girl was sitting in all 46 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: her splendor before the door of her house, and when 47 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: the prince approached her, she got up, went to meet 48 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: him and made a low curtsy. He looked at her, 49 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: said nothing, and rode. When he came to the house 50 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: of the poor girl, she was not standing at the door, 51 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: but sitting in her little room. He stopped his horse 52 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,799 Speaker 1: and saw through the window on which the bright sun 53 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: was shining, the girl sitting at her spinning wheel, busily spinning. 54 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: She looked up, and when she saw that the prince 55 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: was gazing in, blushed all over her face, let her 56 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: eyes fall, and went on spinning. I do not know 57 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: whether just at that moment the thread was quite even, 58 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: but she went on spinning until the King's son had 59 00:05:52,160 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 1: ridden away again. Then she stepped to the window, opened it, 60 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: and said, it is so warm in this room. But 61 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: she still looked after him as long as she could 62 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: see the white feathers in his hat. Then she sat 63 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: down to work again in her own room, and went 64 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: on with her spinning and a saying which the old 65 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: woman had often repeated when she was sitting at her work, 66 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: came into her mind, and she said these words to herself, 67 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: spindle my spindle, Haste, haste thee away here to my house, 68 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: Bring the wooer, I pray, And what do you think happened? 69 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: The spindle sprang out of her hand in an instant 70 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: and out of the door, And when, in her astonishment 71 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: she got up and looked after it, she saw that 72 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: it was dancing out merrily in the open country and 73 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: drawing a shining golden thread after it. Before long it 74 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: had entirely vanished from her sight. As she now had 75 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: no spindle, the girl took the weaver's shuttle in her hand, 76 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: sat down to her loom, and began to weave. The spindle, however, 77 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: danced continually onward, and just as the thread came to 78 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: an end, it reached the prince. What do I see? 79 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: He cried, The spindle certainly wants to show me the way. 80 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: He turned his horse around and rode back with the 81 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: golden thread. The girl was, however, sitting at her work, saying, shuttle, 82 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: my shuttle, weave well this day, and guide the wooer 83 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: to me. I pray, Immediately the shuttle sprang out of 84 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: her hand and out by the door. Before the threshold, however, 85 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: it began to weave a carpet which was more beautiful 86 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: than the eyes of man had ever yet seen. Lilies 87 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: and roses blossomed on both sides of it, and on 88 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 1: a golden ground. In the center, green branches ascended, under 89 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: which bounded hares and rabbits deer stretched their heads. In 90 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: between them. Brightly colored birds were sitting in the branches above. 91 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: They lacked nothing but the gift of song. The shuttle 92 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: leapt here and there, and everything seemed to grow of 93 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: its own accord. As the shuttle had run away, The 94 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: girl now sat down to sew. She held the needle 95 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: in her hand and said, needle, my needle, sharp pointed 96 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: and fine, prepare for a wooer this house of mine. 97 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: Then the needle leapt out of her fingers and flew 98 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: everywhere about the room as quick as lightning. It was 99 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: just as if invisible spirits were working. They covered tables 100 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 1: and benches with green cloth in an instant, and the 101 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: chairs with velvet, and hung the windows with silken curtains. 102 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: Hardly had the needle put in the last stitch, than 103 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: the maiden saw through the window the white feathers of 104 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: the prince, whom the spindle had brought there by the 105 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: golden thread. He got off his horse, stepped over the 106 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: carpet into the house, and when he entered the room, 107 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: there stood the maiden in her poor garments. But she 108 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: shone out from them like a rose surrounded by leaves. 109 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: You are the poorest and also the richest, said he 110 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: to her, Come with me, you shall be my bride. 111 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: She did not speak, but she gave him her hand. 112 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: Then he kissed it and led her forth, lifted her 113 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: onto his horse, and took her to the royal Castle, 114 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: where a wonderful wedding was held with great rejoicing. The spindle, shuttle, 115 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: and needle were preserved in a treasure room and held 116 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: in great honor.