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407-West African folklore: Wiser

By |2025-04-24T06:47:29-04:00April 23rd, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: , |

🍼Have a budding tyrant? You need a snarky talking baby🍼 Yenga Naa is wiser than the chief. How do you know? Well, he named himself that...the moment he was born. 😈 The Creature: The Cornu How do you torment sinners without getting your hands dirty? The cornu, that's how. --- Links 🎧 Connect [...]

406-Slavic Folklore: Udder Nonsense

By |2025-04-09T08:17:28-04:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

🐄Baba Yaga, Dragons, Giant Talking Pigs🐄 We'll see what happens when a king who wants one son gets more than he bargained for: three sons, with the oddest one of all, the one capable of calming dragons (when he's not slaying them) and outsmarting giant evil pigs (when he's not slaying them), being [...]

404-Monkey King: Not Found

By |2025-03-12T15:24:28-04:00March 12th, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

🤑 The Monkey King and friends are making money and staying in fancy hotels🤑 What is this that you heard about them being monks? What? No. That's ridiculous. They don't know why you thought that. So weird. They are horse traders who trade horses while they pass through this city that murders monks. [...]

403-Norse Sagas: Wormtongue

By |2025-02-25T20:37:49-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

⚔️The plight of the Viking celebrity poet⚔️ Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and none of what you actually say matters all that much...as long as you're famous. 😈 The creature: the cicada It's not a creature at all. Just a normal bug...or maybe that's what Zeus wants you to think? --- Membership: [...]

401-Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race

By |2025-01-28T22:15:12-05:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

🐀It's Race Day🐀 Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their years: a race that's terrible for all involved. 😈 The Creature: Nian Why you want to dress in red to avoid long, unpleasant runs on New Year's Day, though any run in January or February [...]

400-Celtic folklore: The Baddies

By |2025-01-15T02:27:14-05:00January 15th, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

👸 Our princess is in another castle! 👸 Two stories from Ireland where it's unclear who the villain is...and how it might just be among the people we least suspect. 😈 The creature: le cheval Bayard A horse who just wants to make you feel bad about your riding ability...and also destroy your [...]

399-Canadian folklore: Wild Night

By |2024-12-24T00:04:41-05:00December 31st, 2024|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

🎉At a bad New Year's party?🎉 It has to be better than little Joe and Baptiste's New Years, in the frigid Canadian wilderness. But they're going to change that. By making a deal with the devil. 😈 The creature: The Yale The Yale, or the Centicore, is a super goat who's super famous [...]

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