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44-Saint George: Here Be Dragons
Three and a half stories of monsters of the ancient world. We meet vile beasts that lurk in the forests, the murky deep, and the wide, desolate place…
9 years, 8 months ago
43-Slavic Folklore: The Wasteland
A story of a super-powered Russian hero fighting the evil, also super-powered villain known as Nightingale the Robber. Nightingale can fly, kill with…
9 years, 8 months ago
42-Chinese Folklore (Cinderella): You Only Live Thrice
This week, it's two of the earliest Cinderella stories, one of which is the earliest written version of this type of story, pre-dating European versi…
9 years, 9 months ago
41C-Lancelot: It's Complicated
It's the conclusion of the Lancelot story, and we'll immediately pick up after last week's fairly cheap cliffhanger ending. He'll finally see the end…
9 years, 9 months ago
41B-Lancelot: Promises to Keep
Things get weird on Lancelot's journey to become a knight of the Round Table...if Merlin trying to pick up a twelve-year-old last week wasn't strange…
9 years, 9 months ago
41A-Lancelot: The Stolen Child
We're back in the time of King Arthur, picking up right about where we stopped off last time (though you don't need to have heard last time to listen…
9 years, 9 months ago
40-West African Folklore: Cold-blooded
Five stories of a very savvy, completely unscrupulous turtle from Nigeria. He's a trickster we've met before, but he has an entire episode of semi-mu…
9 years, 10 months ago
39-Odin: In the Land of the Blind
Born in ice and fire, Norse mythology starts violently...and strangely. There's a blood ocean, a giant primeval cow, and some light grandpa murder. T…
9 years, 10 months ago
38B-Korean Literature: Master of Two Worlds
The Conclusion of the "Story of Hong Gildong" takes us from the household drama of last episode to a story that spans the entirety of the Korean peni…
9 years, 10 months ago
38A-Korean Literature: Crossing the Threshold
Hong Gildong has been called the Korean Robin Hood, but really oversimplifies the story. It is both an awesome adventure tale with dragons, magic, as…
9 years, 10 months ago