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!
A store from Korea about a fisherman, a frog, and family. The creature is a very good dog...who is also on fire.
Our super spooky, terrifying Halloween episode that's definitely not a lighthearted romp where a Greek god makes a podcast, trick-or-treats as Hercules, and emcees a poetry competition. Nope. Not at all.
We're back in the stories of 1001 nights, where Scheherazade has to tell bedtime stories to save her life. On the first, a man ruins a wedding reception and can't show his face in town again. The second starts with a murder, and then only gets darker. This week's item, the ridiculous umbrella hat: https://myths.link/umbrella -- [...]
The wooing of Etain, a love story that goes up against witches turning people into puddles and flies, multiple angry spouses, and death itself.
A story from Japanese folklore of Princess Moonlight, from Japanese folklore, where a bamboo cutter finds one of those magical heaven babies in a bamboo stalk and it changes his life, and the whole empire, forever.