Tangling Tales

Welcome to Tangling Tales, a podcast where we minimally to moderately modify and modestly modernize myths, legends, fairytales, folklore, fables, and other stories we stumble across. I am Amber, your humble host and story spinner. New episodes monthly. Let us begin…


The Magic Fish

Okay, folks, I’m definitely leaning into this fisherman theme. This next story is based on the poem The Fisherman and His Wife by the…

Soul Cages

Today’s tale comes from Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry collected by William Butler Yeats. The story is called “Soul Cages” and interestingly…

The Fisherman’s Wife, part 1

This tale is adapted from the story “Fisherman Plunk and His Wife” by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić which can be found in Croatian Tales from Long…