An abbreviated history of Pocahontas and John Smith, this episode looks at the conflict largely from the Powhatan side. This isn't the Disney version. It is gritty, dark, violent, and, if Mattaponi oral history is to be trusted, fairly disturbing. Still, it tells the story of a clash of worlds, and one woman who stood in the middle to bring a brief peace.
The creature this week lives in lime trees and, in return for probably not paying rent, will hurt you if you're mean to the tree.
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My interview on The Podcast Digest:
http://www.thepodcastdigest.info/2016/06/tpd-96-jason-weiser-from-myths-and.html
Music:
"What does anybody know about anything" by Chris Zabriskie
All other music (besides intro/outro and COTW) by Poddington Bear and Blue Dot Sessions
Disclaimer:
- Mentions of rape are prevalent throughout portions of the podcast, mainly in conjunction with Pocahontas's captivity. Nothing graphic, but it's fairly unsettling, nonetheless.
- Fairly intense violence. Non-graphic descriptions of the after-effects of a man who had his skin peeled off and his fingers chopped off. In addition, there are stories of children being thrown overboard and shot.
Sources:
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
"The Generall Historie of Virginia" by John Smith
"The true travels, adventures, and observations, of Captain John Smith" by John Smith
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Hi, I’m a Swedish fan, but I’m completely confused by this creature of the week. I’ve never heard about the name, nor the behaviour, and searching google I found nothing. Your pronounciation at first made me guess you might have meant the skogsrå (forest-nymph) also known just as rå (pronounced ‘raw’). Rå is apparently short for råd (advice) or rådare (advicer?), and it’s a spirit (‘ande’ in swedish, maybe the other word you said could have been råd-ande)… But they are nothing like your description. I actually planned on giving them as a tip for the podcast sometime :) they’re mostly creepy though, but I’m sure you could pick out fun details. I’ll describe them a bit. They have power over animals and plants. They are beautiful women (from the front) who lure men into the forest. From behind, their backs are like a hollow tree, and/or they have a tail. They either make men disappear, or seduce them, after which the souls of the men stay with her and they become very quiet and distant.
Anyway, could you spell this week’s creature out and/or give some source? (the listed ones seem only to be for the main story). I’m very curious! If it IS a rå, I would like to know where this very different interpretation is from :)
Thanks for the fun and interesting stories, and I love your modern commentary!
I did some more digging, and found an English source talking about rä (pronounced ra as in rad) or rädande (pron rad-un-de), and it fits the description!! I seem to get a few more and better hits with the alternative term lövjerska though, probably because rä is too short for google and rädande could sort of mean other things (räda seems to mean “to instill fear”, I wonder if it’s connected to raids (räder)). Anyways, mystery solved! And I hope you someday might look into the rå as a potential creature of the week :) Thanks again for this pod!
We get it, white people are bad, men are bad, only women and people of color are good.
Talking about writing with an agenda.
You could say that George must have been a time traveler since he took an arrow to the knee just like he did when he was guarding the city of Whiterun. (that was a horrible joke *facepalms*)
This…I like this…