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  • 403: Norse sagas: Wormtongue

    403: Norse sagas: Wormtongue
    Feb 26 2025
    ⚔️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?

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    • "An Unknown Visitor" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Black Ballots" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Heath" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    58 mins
  • 402: Japanese folklore: Misconceptions

    402: Japanese folklore: Misconceptions
    Feb 12 2025
    🐸Love means never having to say I'm sorry (I poisoned you)"🐸 ...or something like that. This Valentine's Day there are three love stories from Japan. On the first, a man moves on after becoming a widower (kind of), on the second, two frogs fall out of love...with a place, and on the third, the whole world is in love with a geisha.

    😈 The Creature: Maikubi (舞首)

    Three heads that don't so much as dance as they do bite each other and sink ships.

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    • Story 1: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.18748.20
    • Story 2: https://www.japanpowered.com/folklore-and-urban-legends/two-frogs-japanese-folktale
    • Story 3: https://www.worldoftales.com/Asian_folktales/Japanese_folktale_63.html#gsc.tab=0
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    • "Then Disappeared to the Ground" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Bogs Reverie" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Jat Poure" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    57 mins
  • 401: Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race

    401: Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race
    Jan 29 2025
    🐀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 (or in general) is unpleasant.

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    • "Hrse Hrse" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "The Sermon" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    40 mins
  • 400: Celtic folklore: The Baddies

    400: Celtic folklore: The Baddies
    Jan 15 2025
    👸 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 marriage.

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    • "Intrinsic Pace" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Gene's Waltz" by Blue Dot Sessions
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  • 399: Canadian folklore: Wild Night

    399: Canadian folklore: Wild Night
    Dec 31 2024
    🎉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 despite not deserving it at all.

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    • La Chasse Galerie: https://archive.org/details/lachassegalerieo00beau/page/n13/mode/2up
    • Legends of Le Détroit: https://archive.org/details/cu31924028870686
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    • "Homin Brer" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Golden Grass" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Bedroll" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    37 mins
  • 398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter

    398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter
    Dec 18 2024
    🌲Trolls, zombies, and evil housecats🌲 It must be Christmas in the Nordic countries. Today, a young officer is stuck in the city after being in a brief coma. At least there are some tales to keep him company.

    😈 The Creature: Frau Gauden

    The creature this week wants to give you that dog you wanted for the holidays. The catch is that it can never leave. Also, it will attack you.

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  • 397: Monkey King: King of Hearts

    397: Monkey King: King of Hearts
    Dec 11 2024
    🐵Monkey and Co. are really hoping this city is different🐵 I mean, it has to be, right? Not every city can be full of monsters...can it? We're back in the Journey to the West with Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.

    😈 The Creature: Cacus

    A half spider man that does whatever a spider can. Providing spiders breath file, steal cattle, and get killed by Hercules

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  • 396: Greek Myths: Hades, Too

    396: Greek Myths: Hades, Too
    Dec 4 2024
    💀Hades is taking the long way home💀 After dropping Persephone off in the world of the humans, Hades makes the long walk back down to his palace at the heart of his realms, giving us a tour of the greek underworld and all the things that creep within.

    😈 The Creature: Bwca

    An elf-like creature that does not like bowls of pee.

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    • Metamorphoses: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21765/21765-h/21765-h.htm
    • Hesiod's works: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348
    • The Library of Apollodorus: https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html
    • The Extant Odes of Pindar: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10717
    • The Iliad: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130
    • The Odyssey: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727
    • The Greek Myths: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310786/the-greek-myths-by-robert-graves/
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    🎵 Music Credits

    • "Contemps" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    50 mins