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223B-Samurai Legends: Dinner Party
There's a killer on the loose in Kyoto. Young women are disappearing from the streets, never to be heard from again. Minamoto no Raikō, the legendary…
5 years ago
223A-Samurai Legends: The Devil went down to Kyoto
Three connected stories of samurai from medieval Japan. On the first, Kintaro, a buff eight-year-old, discovers his destiny. On the second, Watanabe …
5 years, 1 month ago
222B-Norse Legends: It Takes a Pillage
A packed episode with Thor, Odin, mythological dwarves, sword arms, and Valhalla, all ending up with a beautiful double wedding...which ends somehow …
5 years, 1 month ago
222A-Norse Legends: The Land of the Ice and Snow
We’re back in the nine worlds of Norse myth where two Viking blood brothers are looking for princesses that have been kidnapped by legendary monsters…
5 years, 1 month ago
221-Chinese/Scottish folklore: The Great Beyond
This week, there are two stories about death and what comes next, from China and Scotland. On the first, a lonely fisherman meets an odd man down by …
5 years, 1 month ago
220B-Odyssey: Lonely Island
We're back in the Odyssey where Menelaus comes home, Telemachus leaves it, and Odysseus? Odysseus has been stuck in the same place for seven long yea…
5 years, 2 months ago
220A-Odyssey: The Castaways
Three men grappling with the legacy, or curse, of their fathers. Menelaus loses everything and finds a life, but will his past come hunting for him? …
5 years, 2 months ago
219-Italian folklore: Unhand Me
A story from the Pentamerone with a title so spoiler-y that I can't even say it here, but it's a fun, mildly horrifying tale of a relationship that j…
5 years, 2 months ago
218-Monkey King: Enter Sandman
We resume our journey to the west right where we left off: the Tang monk has been kidnapped by demons, and it's up to Sun Wukong and Pigsy to save hi…
5 years, 2 months ago
217-Mabinogion: Bringing Home the Bacon
We’re back in the Mabinogion, where we’ll learn about the perils of bacon - and it’s not the cholesterol, but the magical wizard war that the first p…
5 years, 3 months ago