Bedtime Stories Podcast Fairytales and Folk Tales from the Lilypad for kids · Lily, a frog

Legend of the Wooden Shoe

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The oak tree promised to stand on its head to hold up houses and let people walk over it.

Lily the frog narrates an old fairy tale about how good fairies became trees, people lived in sacred oak forests fearing a sinking disease called valling, and a kind man named Van Eyck received magical help from gnomes and tree spirits to invent wooden shoes and pile drivers, allowing civilization to flourish safely.

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