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Aug 2024
26m 42s

The Pixie Midwife

Starglow Media / Wondery
About this episode

Today we have a story based on the folklore collected by Enys Tregartheb. Come with us to a faraway part of England called Cornwall to hear about a nurse named Alsey.

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