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37-Hercules: The Best at What He Does
Hercules is as terrible as he is awesome. There are sea monsters, centaurs, people being thrown off of things, Hydra poison, and Hercules making ridi…
9 years, 11 months ago
36B-Pocahontas: Between Two Streams
An abbreviated history of Pocahontas and John Smith, this episode looks at the conflict largely from the Powhatan side. This isn't the Disney version…
9 years, 11 months ago
36A-Pocahontas: The Empire Business
The story of Pocahontas and John Smith has turned from compelling historical story of a brave woman who united two warring nations, to a melodramatic…
9 years, 11 months ago
35-Beauty and the Beast: Prisoners
This is not the Beauty and the Beast you've heard. It's not even the story the one you've heard is based on. That one is a super-pared-down version o…
9 years, 11 months ago
34-Greek Mythology: Uphill Battle
Two stories from Greek Mythology: first, it's the story of Sisyphus, who you might know from his interminable, crushing labor, but who actually reall…
10 years ago
33-Ali Baba: Inheritance
As you've probably come to expect, the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, perhaps the second most famous story from One Thousand and One Nights…
10 years ago
32-Tricksters: Wager
Three stories of tricksters. We have Coyote from Native American mythology giving great gifts and racing a turtle. There's also Anansi the spider-man…
10 years ago
31B-Viking Sagas: Face-off
The conclusion of the Saga of Arrow-Odd, a man who is destined
to live 300 years, yet cursed to be killed by his favorite
horse. He's watched his frien…
10 years ago
31A-Viking Sagas: Odd Man Out
The saga of the legendary Viking Arrow-Odd contains trolls,
ogres, giants, magic arrows, and a sorceress getting smacked in the
nose. The mistakes of o…
10 years, 1 month ago
30-Latin American Folklore: Unbreakable
A story from Chilean folklore about the smartest woman in the world, her talking shoe, and a prince that deserved a slap on the face.
The creatures th…
10 years, 1 month ago