Hans the Hedgehog

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1:04Visit bioma.health slash GLP1 and use code CRShow for 15% off your first order. Hans the Hedgehog. The once was a countryman who had money and land in plenty, but how rich so ever he was, one thing was still wanting in his happiness. He had no children. Often when he went into town with the other peasants, they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry and when he got home he said, I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog. Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower. And when she saw the child, she was terrified and said, see, their vow has brought ill luck upon us. Then said the man, what can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him. The woman said,

2:08and we cannot call him anything else but Hans the Hedgehog. When he was christened, the person said he cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes. So a little straw was put behind the stove and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, but he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die, he did not die, however, but remain lying there. How it happened that there was a fair in the town and the peasant was about to go to it and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house that she then he asked the servant and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also,

3:11and what will thou have Hans my hedgehog? Dear father, he said, do bring me bagpipes. When therefore the father came home again, he gave his wife where he had brought for her meat and white rolls. And then he gave the mave the slippers and the stockings with clocks. And lastly, he went behind the stove and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes. And when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, dear father, do go to the forge and get the cockshot and then I will right away and never come back again. On this the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him and had the cock shot for him and when it was done Hans the hedgehog got on it and rode away. But took swine and answers with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there, he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him and there he sat for many a long year and watched his

4:14arses and swine until the herd was quite large and his father knew nothing about him. While he was sitting in the tree however, he played his bagpipes and he made music which was very beautiful. Once a king came travelling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was a sonished at it and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from where hence this music came. He spied about but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up a loft on the tree which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there and he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal court-chart as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought

5:16I can easily do that. Hans the hedgehog understands nothing and I can write what I like. So the king took pan and ink and wrote something and when he was done, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way and he got safely home but his daughter when she saw him from afar was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog and told her what had happened and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home and to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse and made beautiful music. But that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted. He had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad and said he had done well for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog. Hans the hedgehog however looked after his arse and pigs and was always

6:19merry and sat on the tree and played his bad types. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runners and he also had lost his way and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance and asked his runner what that could be and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree and saw the cock sitting at the top of it and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was about up there. I am keeping my arse and my pigs but what is your desire? The messenger said that they had lost their way and could not get back into their own kingdom and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog got down the tree with the cock and told the age king that he would show him the way. If he would give him for his own what so ever

7:24first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said yes and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done Hans wrote on before him on the cock and pointed out the way and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard they were great rejoicing. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful. She ran to meet him through her arm around his neck and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way and had very nearly not come back at all. But that as he was traveling through the great forest a creature have hedgehog half man who was sitting his stride a cock in a high tree and making music had shown him the way and helped him to get out but then in return he had promised him what so ever first met him in the

8:27royal court-shot and how that was she herself which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that the love of her father she would go willingly with his hands if he came. Hans the hedgehog however took care of his pigs and the pigs multiplied until they became so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer and sent word to his father to have every sigh in the village emptied. But he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that he was troubled for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog however seated himself on the cock and drove the pigs before him into the village and ordered the slaughter to begin. Ha but there was still a killing and chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said father let me have the cock shot once more at the forge

9:33and then I will ride away and never come back for as long as I live. Then the father had the cock shot once more and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again. Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had backpaps with him should be shot at cut down or stabbed by everyone so that he might not enter the palace. When therefore Hans the hedgehog came riding through the earth they all pressed forward against him with their pigs but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there. And Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised or he would take broke his life and his daughters. Then the king began to speak his daughter fair and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's so she dressed herself in white and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent

10:36attendance together with golden possession. She seated herself in the carriage and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the backpaps and they took leave and drove away. And the king thought he should never see her again. He was however deceived in his expectation when when there were a short distance from the town. Hans the hedgehog took her pretty close off and pierced her with his hedgehog skin until she bled all over. This is the reward of your falseness he said, go your way. I will not have you and on that hey chased her home again and she was disgraced for the rest of her life. Hans the hedgehog however rode on further on the cock with his backpaps to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. This one however had arranged that if anyone resembling Hans the hedgehog should come they would have presented arms give him safe conduct cry along life to him and lead him to the royal

11:38palace. But when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified for he looked quite too strange. She remembered however that she could not change her mind for she had given her promise to her father to Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her and married to her and had to go with her to the royal table and she seated herself by his side and they ate and drank. When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep she was afraid of his quills and he told her that she was not to fear who no harm would befall her and he told the old king and he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber and lie at a great fire and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed he would creep out of his hedgehog skin and leave it lying there by the bedside and that the man would have run nimbly to it throw it into the fire and stay by it until it was consumed. When the clock struck

12:42eleven he went into the chamber stripped off the hedgehog skin and left it lying by the bed then came the men and fetched it swiftly and threw it into the fire and when the fire had consumed it he was delivered and lay there in the bed in human form but he was called black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his position who washed him with precious selves and anointed him and he became white and was a handsome young man when the king's daughter saw that she was glad and the next morning they arose joyfully eight and drank and then the marriage was properly solemnized and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king. When several years had passed he went with his wife to his father and said that he was his son. The father however declared he had no son. He had never had but one and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes and had

13:48gone forth into the world then Hans made himself known. The old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done and a way it has run to little August's house. End of Hans the hedgehog. As Los Angeles continues to celebrate what was an unforgettable FIFA World Cup 2026 we proudly thank our host city supporters Amjim, Archer Aviation, Kaiser Permanente, LA Tourism and Metro. Your partnership and commitment helped us celebrate our diverse communities and showcased the very best of the Los Angeles region. Together we're building a lasting legacy that will continue to inspire our communities and shape the future of major events in Los Angeles. Thank you for helping us show the world why we love LA. For more visit LASEC.net. This is Steve Kovino from Kovino and Rich. Quick trivia fellas every guy listening is contestant answer honestly to yourself. You got a belly in a little chest, gasped by the afternoon no drive left in the tank you lack that confidence

14:51and mental edge. Those are classic signs that your testosterone has been sliding and nothing drags it down faster than extra weight so why not take matters into your own hands. Shrhip off the weight that tanks your testosterone with Bioma GLP1 booster every serving is packed with science-packed ingredients that crank up your natural GLP1 production. Visit bioma.health slash GLP1 news code CRShow for 15% off your first order.