Myths and Legends
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Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser and Carissa Weiser tell stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cultures throughout history. Some, like the stories of Aladdin, King Arthur, and Hercules are stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories you might not have heard, but real...
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419: Slavic folklore: Bad Heir Day
Ivan fights wizards and monsters and Baba Yaga with a music streaming subscription
What do you get when your daughters have been kidnapped b...
418: French stories: Our Son, Ourson, the Bear
🐻Ourson is a Beary Good Guy🐻
Sorry, I couldn't resist, but he is actually a good guy. He isn't a bear though. He just looks like one to people...
417: Guy of Warwick: Don't Be That Guy
🛡️This Guy?🛡️
This guy is Guy of Warwick, and he's your guy. But only if you need someone to be the best guy in the world at fighting and killin...
416: Hans Christian Andersen: Humbugs
🪲They're not so different🪲
One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants to fight God, the other wants to wear golden hor...
415: Aesop's Fables: Bray it Ain't So
🫏One little rent-a-donkey, one big journey🫏
Actually he's a full-grown rental donkey but the journey is a big one because, when you're a poorl...
414: Monkey King: Ham-bushed
🐷Sun Wukong is a bad friend🐷
But, to be fair, he never said he and Pigsy were friends...because you don't send your friends to dinner parties...
413: European folklore: Justice
🔔Ring the bell for justice🔔
Want justice? Ring the bell. Doesn't matter if you're a horse or a snake or a merchant or a peasant but if you're...
412: Indian folklore: Dicey
🎲Losing your kingdom in a game of dice🎲
The story of Nala and Damayanti is a tale of love, loss, and losing everything but your underwear beca...
411: Celtic folklore: The Wake
⛵️Get lost at sea with Maelduin⛵️
All Maelduin wants to do is avenge his father's murder...with more murder. He should have listened to that w...
410: Japanese folklore: Provincial
⛩️Stories from the Japanese countryside⛩️
Five interconnected stories of purpose, meaning, justice, talking animals, the boss falling off a clif...
409: Reynard: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
🦊 Reynard the fox hates meetings, too 🦊
Especially because at most of the meetings he's invited to, people usually try to kill and eat him. To...
408: Knights of the Round Table: Hither and Thither
🏰When a knight says he'll be right back, he means it
Unless he dies. Or gets captured. Or just forgets about it, prompting his son to come look...
407: West African folklore: Wiser
🍼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...
406: Slavic folklore: Udder Nonsense
🐄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, wit...
405: European legends: Ale to the King
🍺Meet Cambrinus, things aren't going so well for him🍺
He's a peasant kid with a job that's going nowhere, a crush who doesn't love him back, a...
404: Monkey King: Not Found
🤑 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...
403: Norse sagas: Wormtongue
⚔️The plight of the Viking celebrity poet⚔️
Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and none of what you actually say matters all that m...
402: Japanese folklore: Misconceptions
🐸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...
401: Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race
🐀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.
400: Celtic folklore: The Baddies
👸 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 peo...
399: Canadian folklore: Wild Night
🎉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 goin...
398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter
🌲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...
397: Monkey King: King of Hearts
🐵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...
396: Greek Myths: Hades, Too
💀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 palac...
395: Breton folklore: Darkest Knight
🏰 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 kn...
394: Danish folklore: Heartless
🧙♂️How a Scientist Becomes a Wizard🧙♂️
Two stories from Denmark about people dealing with their neighbors in very different ways. One loves...
393: 1001 Nights: Let it Be(ak) (part 2 of 2)
📝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 snak...
392: 1001 Nights: The Unthinkable (part 1 of 2)
🐍Hasib wants to avoid a freak library accident🐍
So he will avoid learning anything. Ever. This week, it's the story of Hasib and the Queen of...
391: Japanese Horror: Handsome Bad Man
👹If you can't be with the one you love...👹
Love the one you're with? What? No. Kill everyone in your way until you get what you want. This wee...
390: Hans Christian Andersen: Swan Song
🦢 Let them eat sand 🦢
A story from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen about a witch who wants to take over the kingdom and the twelve kids...
389: Korean folklore: Star-crossed
🖤 The story of why you don't menace crows. Even if the people you're doing it to try to mess with are extremely annoying and lovey-dovey. Or, if you'...
388: Finnish folklore: Uh oh, Better Get Mikko!
The story of King Mighty Mikko, a young man who isn't a king or mighty, but he is Mikko, and maybe that's all he needs. Oh...and a very clever fox con...
387: Slavic Folklore: Kind of Forgot About Vengeance (part 2 of 2)
The conclusion of the story of Bova, where last episode we saw him ride out to battle alone against an army...but now he faces more danger delivering...
386: Slavic Folklore: Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-looking (part 1 of 2)
The story of Bova, a hero from Slavic folklore, the beautiful beautiful man who is on a lifelong quest for vengeance. Against his mom.
385: Aesop's Fables: On the Farm
More fables from Aesop about life on the farm and how, if someone stops by wearing your friend's skin...they might not be all that trustworthy.
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384: Turkish folklore: The Silent Princess
The story of the silent princess and the prince who definitely has been cursed by that strange woman in the street. He totally hasn't just psyched him...
383: Monkey King: Food Fight (part 2 of 2)
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is dead. For real. He was eaten by a lion and is gone for good because we can all trust Pigsy because he's so honest and...
382: Sun Wukong: A Good Death (part 1 of 2)
We're back in the story of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King and the Journey to the West, where Monkey goes undercover as a demon and defeats a whole army w...
381: Japanese folklore: Lend Me Your Ears
Two stories from Japan about the stories we tell one another. On the first, it's a not-so-famous musician who gets a massive new audience for the lege...
380: British Legends: I Loathe that for You
The story of the laidly worm is all about the costs and benefits of kissing dragons on the mouth.
The creature is Topielec,...