There's a surprising amount to the story of Hansel and Gretel. There's your average fairy tale weirdness, like load-bearing cake and aquatic duck Uber, but there's an unexpected humanity in the story that I think is overlooked. I hope you like it. The creature is punyaiama, from India, and she's the reason you can't get drunk [...]
47 ronin (samurai without masters) lead one of the greatest revenge stories ever told.
The stories of a lost dumpling and two young people finding love among the ashes.
A Tsar goes on a trip with his buddies, and it takes a bad turn when he gets captured by an enemy king. It turns out torture isn't fun (who knew?) and he needs his wife to come save him. The creature is the piroboli! Hot rocks! They are rocks who are hot (both actually hot [...]
On our annual Halloween special, it's a supposedly true story of a string of killings from something lurking in the dark forest
The story of Rip Van Winkle is more than just a guy taking a long, alcohol-induced nap. It's a story about a changing time and a man struggling to keep up. It's a story about lost love and and a second chance. It's a story about one of the most insufferable fictional protagonists that you didn't [...]
We’re back on the boat to the Trojan War and Agamemnon has a problem. It's a problem he can solve, he just doesn't want to.
Jack is back and ready to do what he does best, and who is along for the ride? King Arthur's teenage son.
Two stories, one from Italy, one from England. In the one from italy, Costanza is born which would usually be pretty great...except her parents are already in retirement and have given everything away to her older sisters, so she sets out on her own in the wild medieval world. The second story is Molly Whuppie, whose [...]
When a tiger comes up to you sharpening his claws and offers you a deal, you take that deal...unless you're the farmer's wife. The creature is Donkey Pope! It's really neither a Donkey or a Pope or the genesis of a successful video game franchise. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions