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This week’s Friday afternoon story is adapted from the Fairy Midwife told in Hag: Forgotten folktales (2020) Virago Press. It invites you to ponder the wisdom and gifts of sleep soothers as I imagine many of you sincerely need deep sleep as we crawl to the end of the year.

Who is your sleep soother?

What does she see that others might not want her to see?

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