445: Indian folklore: Fake It 'Til You Make It
💪There's something powerful about confidence.Except that, if you're not actually powerful...or generous...or deadly, pretending to be those things can get you in a lot of trouble. Only if you get cau...
7 Okt 53min
444: Dwarves: Ortnit Wit
🗡️Ortnit has it all.The strength of twelve men. A secret, super lineage. A dwarven sword and unbreakable armor. The question is, what is he going to do with it? Start a war to try to date a princess?...
23 Sep 1h 3min
443: Tricksters: Does Whatever A Spider Can
🕷️Spiders don't have tails, but this one has tales. Anansi is one of the most famous folklore tricksters in the world, but we'll see that behind every great trickster...is likely a trail of broken an...
9 Sep 1h
442: Greek Myths: The Poseidon Adventures
🔱It's Poseidon's turn.On the podcast. Not to be king of the gods. He's actually totally not mad that his little brother is king. Because Zeus isn't the king of him. But Poseidon does do everything hi...
25 Aug 51min
441: Celtic folklore: Deerly Beloved
🗡️If at first you don't succeed, die, die again.Ian's had a hard life. That life gets even more difficult when he falls in love with a woman who is (not-so-secretly) a deer. And who makes him eat her...
12 Aug 1h 1min
440: Monkey King: The Shakedown
🐒 Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, knows a demon shakedown when he sees it.And what's happening in this town, where people need to pay upwards of $30k (in 2026 USD) a year to a Buddha they never see? Tha...
29 Jul 54min
439: Indian folklore: Guess I'll Die
✏️Gaṅgâdhara's astrologer dad has some bad news for his boy: he's going to die.Well, first he'll spend a decade in prison, and then die. Then things will get better? It's the story of the Soothsayer's...
15 Jul 1h 4min
438: Maui: Whatever Happened to the Man Who Snared the Sun?
🏝️No one has seen or heard about Maui for quite some timeMeanwhile, all these strange portents are leading disparate groups to a faraway island, all the while there are ominous tales spoken in whispe...
1 Jul 51min
