A New Year’s Eve episode where a couple wants to travel through town to make some rice cakes and ends up with more than they bargained for. The creature is a beautiful friend at the pool who may or may not be waiting to murder you.
The beginning of an Icelandic saga with cursed swords, Viking love triangles, and why throwing stinky socks at a person whose only desire is to punch you in the face is a terrible idea.
After his exploits, Maui decides to settle down. Unfortunately, married life is anything but bliss, but that's probably because his wife's ex-husband is a vicious eel monster.
The Monkey King and friends stop off on a side quest to rescue a young woman kidnapped by a pig monster, but they might get more than they bargained for, and make a new friend along the way.
We're back in the Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh folklore, where we'll see what happens when the apocalypse comes and goes and you are left behind with your friends. And mom.
A man with no story gets a story, and it involves singing, dancing, and amateur surgery! The creature is an aardvark and how people show their appreciation for its bravery and strength...by killing it. Extra music: "The Cast and Favor" by Blue Dot Sessions
We're back, finishing up this leg of our journey in a packed episode with a witch, pigmen, more giants, Scylla, Charybdis, Hades, Tiresias, and, of course, Hercules.
With monsters, witches, sirens, and cyclopes, the Odyssey is one of the landmarks of world literature and a classic for the ages. This is the start.
We're back in Russian folklore for a fun story about a soldier with some biscuits who fights demons, heaven, and yes, death itself.
Two stories from the Grimm brothers!