Hans Christian Andersen tries his hand at a Viking-esque story of revenge, when Bishop Glob decides he wants to be more than a corrupt Bishop: he wants to be a corrupt bishop who owns slightly more land. How much murder will it take for him to do that? The creature this week is the Falcon-fish, and [...]
🪲They're not so different🪲 One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants to fight God, the other wants to wear golden horse shoes. When it comes to being completely arrogant and insufferable, though, they have more in common than you might think. It's two fairy tales of pride and [...]
Making a deal with the devil to cross a river feels a little trivial, but I have to imagine bridges were harder to build back then. The creature is always living in the Loch Ness Monster's pool-noodle-shaped shadow. The Devil's Bridge: https://www.flickr.com/photos/govert1970/3926175535 The Devil's Rock: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Picswiss_UR-30-07.jpg Music: "Postbox Facto" by Blue Dot Sessions
🫏One little rent-a-donkey, one big journey🫏 Actually he's a full-grown rental donkey but the journey is a big one because, when you're a poorly treated rental donkey and you have a chance to escape, you take it. Then, spend the rest of the time trying to get back to captivity because the world is dangerous and [...]
Two stories of crime and punishment and why kidnapping is wrong and dangerous but not for the reasons that you think. By American author O. Henry. Stories: The Ransom of Red Chief: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Whirligigs/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief After Twenty Years: https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/after-twenty-years/
🐷Sun Wukong is a bad friend🐷 But, to be fair, he never said he and Pigsy were friends...because you don't send your friends to dinner parties where everyone is trying to murder you. 😈 The Creature: Each Tened A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire. --- Links: 📚️ [...]
🔔Ring the bell for justice🔔 Want justice? Ring the bell. Doesn't matter if you're a horse or a snake or a merchant or a peasant but if you're one of the latter two probably don't get caught ringing the bell of justice. King Charlemagne puts of a bell of justice and consequences ensue. 😈 The Creature: [...]
🎲Losing your kingdom in a game of dice🎲 The story of Nala and Damayanti is a tale of love, loss, and losing everything but your underwear because of your terrible decisions and then also your underwear. 😈 The Creature: Drekavac The creature is the Drekavac, and it's many things to many people. All of them are [...]
Judge Shemyaka is getting down to the business of ruling on cases. Literally. He wants to make a bunch of money from bribes. Luckily, a willing and, apparently, rich man just walked into his courtroom. The creature is Dragon Carp! Where does the dragon end and the carp begin? Source: https://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/Russian_Folktale_14.html#gsc.tab=0 --- Music: "One Quiet Conversation" [...]
Dr. Henry Harris has been called to the outpost for asteroid Y-3, humanity's first line of defense against the vast, strange galaxy, because there's a strange infection growing among the soldiers of the outpost: they think they're turning into plants. Adapted from "Piper in the Woods" by Philip K. Dick: (Warning, link NSFW as it contains [...]