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255-Chinese Folklore: Picture Me This
A story from China where we see a young man embark on a dangerous journey for love that definitely isn't a knock-off version of "The Journey to the W…
4 years, 4 months ago
254-Spanish Folklore: Ready or Not
A story from Spanish folklore of three brothers, a crafting competition, a smelly Trojan parrot, and a lesson that it's never too late to start on th…
4 years, 4 months ago
253B-Monkey King: The Good Guys
Monkey has been fired. Sandy has been captured. Pigsy is fleeing in terror, and the monk is about to be cut to pieces by a room full of angry guys. T…
4 years, 4 months ago
253-Monkey King: Severance
We're back on the road on the Journey to the West and our heroes are starving. The solution? Some murders, some personnel changes, and human buns.
Th…
4 years, 4 months ago
252-Greek folklore: Name that Tune
Fighting your own fate: it's a theme nearly as old as human civilization. We'll hear two stories of people who both lament their fate...and see that …
4 years, 5 months ago
251-Icelandic Legends: Ghosts of Christmas Past
Two stories of Christmas in Iceland. So that apparently means wizards and zombies?
The creature is the Cuegle! It's like a walking great white shark …
4 years, 5 months ago
250-Grimm: Fauxsicians
Two stories of absolutely real and definitely not fake doctors! The first is a Grimm tale where a guy goes to medical school and opens a practice! Ne…
4 years, 5 months ago
249-Italian Folklore: Unbearable
Two stories from Giambattista Basile, Neapolitan writer, of angry sisters, busted Mario pipes, and she-bears that are only mad if you try to force th…
4 years, 5 months ago
248-Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Magic Words
Two stories of sorcerer's apprentices. The first picks the wrong major at wizard school. The second finds a creative way into school...by becoming a …
4 years, 6 months ago
247-Argentinian Folklore: Beast Tartare, Can't Go Far
This week, it's the story from Argentina about Senorita Maldonado. We'll learn that sometimes the beasts of the woods might be better than your cruel…
4 years, 6 months ago