394: Danish folklore: Heartless

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 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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419: Slavic folklore: Bad Heir Day

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 by a sleezy cloud and your son not only spends all of his...

8 Okt 202541min

418: French stories: Our Son, Ourson, the Bear

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 who have probably never seen a bear, because he's kind ...

24 Sep 202547min

417: Guy of Warwick: Don't Be That Guy

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 killing. It's just too bad Guy hates being that guy. 😈 The...

10 Sep 20251h 3min

416: Hans Christian Andersen: Humbugs

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 horse shoes. When it comes to being completely arrogant and...

27 Aug 202538min

415: Aesop's Fables: Bray it Ain't So

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 poorly treated rental donkey and you have a chance to escape,...

13 Aug 202547min

414: Monkey King: Ham-bushed

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 where everyone is trying to murder you. 😈 The Creature...

30 Jul 202542min

413: European folklore: Justice

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 one of the latter two probably don't get caught ringing ...

16 Jul 202549min

412: Indian folklore: Dicey

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 because of your terrible decisions and then also your underw...

2 Jul 202555min

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