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  • 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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    1 h
  • 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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    📖 Sources
    • 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 min
  • 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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    49 min
  • 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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    46 min
  • 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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    📖 Sources

    • 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/
    🎮️ Greek Punishment Games

    • Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: https://pippinbarr.com/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment/
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    🎵 Music Credits

    • "Contemps" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    50 min
  • 395: Breton folklore: Darkest Knight

    395: Breton folklore: Darkest Knight
    Nov 27 2024
    🏰 Why maybe you should pass on dating that person with the dad who murders everyone trying to date them 🏰 The tale of Degarré is a story of knights, chivalry, violence, and grappling with what it means when the person you've idolized and sought your whole life...might just be the villain of the story.

    😈 The Creature: Ninmenju (人面樹)

    That tree that thinks you're HILARIOUS...until you bite into its face fruit.

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    • Sir Degarré: https://myths.link/degare

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    🎵 Music Credits

    • "Death of the Dragon" by Yagull Music
    • "March of the Dragons" by Yagull Music
    • "Dream Roads Forever" by Yagull Music
    • "Town Market" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    54 min
  • 394: Danish folklore: Heartless

    394: Danish folklore: Heartless
    Nov 20 2024
    🧙‍♂️How a Scientist Becomes a Wizard🧙‍♂️ Two stories from Denmark about people dealing with their neighbors in very different ways. One loves and accepts them. The other just wants to get away so he tears out his own heart.

    😈 The Creature: Abumi-guchi (鐙口)

    AKA Stirrup mouth. Your friend to the end. And beyond.

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    • Toller's Neighbors: https://www.wisdomlib.org/scandinavia/book/a-collection-of-popular-tales-from-the-norse-and-north-german/d/doc64489.html
    • The Man Without A Heart: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danish_Fairy_and_Folk_Tales/The_Man_without_a_Heart
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    🎵 Music Credits

    • "Upper Registers" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Bergeron" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    42 min
  • 393: 1001 Nights: Let it Be(ak) (part 2 of 2)

    393: 1001 Nights: Let it Be(ak) (part 2 of 2)
    Nov 13 2024
    📝A Cavern Full of Snakes is apparently a Great Classroom📝 Hasib is still stuck in the room with the Queen of Serpents and twelve thousand snakes, and the QoS a story to tell. Two of them, actually. Long ones. Two years' worth of stories of guys lost in the world...and two different ways of dealing with mistakes and loss. Basically, she's being a very tricky teacher.

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    😈 The Creature: Wokulo

    Tiny invisible hairy naked men could be watching you right now. And they're really good at wrestling.

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    One Thousand and One Nights Vol. 5: https://myths.link/hasib

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    🎵 Music Credits

    • "The Gran Dias" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Don Germaine" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Convex Marsa" by Blue Dot Sessions
    • "Brer Sprine" by Blue Dot Sessions
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    55 min