Episode 16 Vasilissa the Fair
In this week's episode we’ll find out why it was so important to always keep a flame a light in your home. And what one brave girl will go through in order to obtain light for her dark world.

**She will face great hardship after losing her mother, travel through a dark dangerous forest, enter the house of a Baba Yaga, live with her and pass her tests all with the help of a special gift given to her by her mother as she lie on her deathbed.

This weeks Tale : Vassilissa the fair is adapted from the version found in the book :

Russian Fairy Tales a Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-Lore
By W.R.S. Ralston, M.A.,
1873**

For you grown ups out there check out the book Women who run with wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

She tells a hauntingly beautiful version of this story and has some fabulous interpretation.

Also for the younger and the older out there check out a really great Young adult book:

The House with Chicken Legs, By Sophie Anderson

My daughter and I have been reading it and it’s great .

**Thanks for listening.

Narration and sound design by Aaron James

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