Sleep and Sorcery | Folklore & Fantasy-Inspired Sleep Stories

Step into the staves of an old, familiar legend as you fall asleep. Tonight’s bedtime story is lovingly inspired by the beloved poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in which a young apprentice sorcerer bites off more than they can chew. After completing a long day of study under the tutelage of a powerful sorcerer, you are left to complete the evening chores. Eager to practice your magical skills and hastily complete your arduous tasks, you enchant an old broomstick to carry water from the well outside to fill the sorcerer’s cauldron. Losing control of the broomstick, you must call for help to reverse the enchantment. Sleep & Sorcery is a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. One part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Tonight’s key ingredients: Fireplace sounds Fantasia vibes Relaxing sleep countdown Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw; Something Magical by Christian Andersen from EpidemicSound.com Sounds by ZapSplat Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. In tonight’s story, you and your adventuring party, weary from days of travel, are granted passage into the mystical elven forest known as Dreamwood. You earn a private audience with the queen of the realm, an immortal elf, who gives you keen wisdom and insight about yourself. Rejoining your party, the queen’s guard shows you to your bedchambers among the network of treehouses in the forest. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Tonight’s key ingredients: High fantasy Visualization exercise Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw; Back to the Shires by Christian Andersen; Clairvoyance by Syntropy from EpidemicSound.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. In tonight’s story, while preparing for a new school year as a professor of magical history, you’ll take a break to have tea with your old friend, the keeper of the school grounds. You make your way to his hut at the edge of the forest, take a stroll around his garden, then retire inside to catch up. He shows you souvenirs from his travels over the summer, including a mysterious egg, thought to be a phoenix egg. As a thunderstorm approaches, you and the gamekeeper wait out the storm in the cabin, swapping stories and enjoying each other’s company. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Tonight’s key ingredients: Wizard school Thunderstorm sounds Cosmic egg visualization Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw; Hard Charger by Christian Andersen from EpidemicSound.com Sounds by ZapSplat Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. In tonight’s story, you are taken under the wing of the centaur Chiron, a wise and compassionate teacher. After a long day of training in hunting and archery, Chiron guides you back to your camp in the mountains of Thessaly, imparting knowledge of herblore, medicine, astronomy, and prophecy along the way. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Tonight’s key ingredients: Greek mythology Nighttime ambience (cicadas) Body scan Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw, Samadhi by Syntropy Sounds by ZapSplat Story inspiration from Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - In tonight’s story, you’ll be charged by King Arthur himself to undertake a quest for the Holy Grail. After witnessing a vision at the Round Table, you and your fellow knights will set off into the forests of adventure. Following your intuition, you’ll wander into a desolate kingdom, meet with the Fisher King, and share a meal at his table. While feasting in his castle, you’ll observe strange marvels and miracles before retiring to your chamber to rest your bones. Tonight's tale is lovingly inspired and adapted from the works of Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, and Robert de Boron. Tonight’s key ingredients: Arthurian Legend ASMR (crackling flames, water lapping, forest ambience) Progressive Muscle Relaxation Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw; No Time for Heroes by Christian Andersen from EpidemicSound.com Sounds by ZapSplat Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this bedtime story, you’ll travel by train to the breathtaking city of Prague in the heart of Bohemia. Noticing a curious flickering light in a vacant courtyard, you slip away from your tour group into a dreamlike version of the city where art, music, history, and fairy tales spring to life all around you. In this magical cityscape, you discover your miraculous new ability to fly, and you soar through some of the city’s most magnificent sights by the light of the full moon. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Tonight’s key ingredients: Czech folklore Mental vacation Yoga Nidra-inspired body scan Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw; Way Beyond Eternity by Claude Signet; Clairvoyance by Syntropy from EpidemicSound.com Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In tonight’s story, you’ll visit a hidden commercial corridor of London – one lined with magic shops and mystical delights. Bathe in the aromas of an apothecary and potion shop, get fitted for new robes, pick out an animal familiar, and visit a renowned wandmaker to complete your magical supplies. Exhausted from the day, return to your rooms at a magical bed and breakfast, where you’ll curl up for a good night’s sleep. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Tonight’s key ingredients: Urban fantasy Guided visualization Light ASMR (potions bubbling, crackling fire) Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw and Hard Charger by Christian Andersen from EpidemicSound.com Sounds by ZapSplat Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In tonight’s calming sleep story, you’ll sail through the mists to the magical isle of Avalon, visit an abandoned circle of standing stones, and feel the hum of ancient magic in the dewy spring air. You wander through sacred spaces, try to decipher strange symbols, and share a moment of peace with a friendly fox before you come upon an empty cloister. After exploring the halls, you find a magnificent library in which to light a fire, snuggle up with a book, and nod off to sleep. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. My name is Laurel, and I’ll be your guide on tonight’s fantastical journey. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Tonight’s key ingredients: Arthurian legend Light ASMR (water, crackling fire) Yoga Nidra-inspired meditation Music: A Glimpse of Avalon and Magic in the Mist by Flouw, from EpidemicSound.com Sounds by ZapSplat Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In tonight’s sleep story, perfect to enjoy on or near the Vernal Equinox, we’ll visit the secluded village of Slumbershire, where halflings dwell, uninterested in the goings-on of the outside world. You’ll be welcomed into the cozy home of a dear old friend. You sit together by the fire, recalling the adventures you shared long, long ago. As you spin the old tales, you’ll watch the fire twist into the shapes of your memories, before falling asleep in your favorite armchair. - ✨Pre-order is live for the Sleep & Sorcery book!✨ https://www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed-crow-books/p/sleepandsorcery Sleep & Sorcery: A Collection of Enchanting Bedtime Stories, Rituals, and Spells for Meaningful Rest, coming August 2024 from Crossed Crow Books. The book features many of your favorite stories, plus exclusive writings and a suite of rituals to enrich your resting and waking life. - Welcome to Sleep & Sorcery, a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. My name is Laurel, and I’ll be your guide on tonight’s fantastical journey. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Tonight’s key ingredients: Medieval high fantasy Vernal Equinox-inspired meditation Light ASMR (crackling fire) Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw and Back to the Shires by Christian Andersen from EpidemicSound.com Sounds by ZapSplat Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Coming in spring of 2022, Sleep & Sorcery is a folklore and fantasy-inspired sleep series from the co-creator of The Midnight Myth Podcast. Step across the threshold into a world of myth and magic, where you can safely drift off into a deep and comfortable sleep. Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. My name is Laurel, and I’ll be your guide on infinite fantastical journeys. On each episode of Sleep & Sorcery, I’ll whisk you away to a far-off time and place. Visit a cozy cottage in the mythical village of Slumbershire, where you’ll share a cup of tea with old friends, reminiscing on your past adventures to misty mountains and elven halls. Travel through the mysterious forests of Bohemia, encountering fairy tale creatures and exploring gothic churches. Go back in time to the court of King Arthur and embark on a meditative quest for lost relics. Soar in a spaceship among the stars, taking in the awesome sights of cosmic phenomena. Each sleep story is carefully crafted to evoke feelings of comfort, safety, and relaxation – paired with breath work or a soothing body scan to send you naturally into sleep. Sleep & Sorcery. See you in your wildest dreams. Music: A Glimpse of Avalon by Flouw, from EpidemicSound.com Special Thanks to Derek Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleep-sorcery/support Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.