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Member Episode 110-Swiss folklore: A Bridge Too Far

By |2025-08-14T13:50:57-04:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: Member Post|

Making a deal with the devil to cross a river feels a little trivial, but I have to imagine bridges were harder to build back then. The creature is always living in the Loch Ness Monster's pool-noodle-shaped shadow. The Devil's Bridge: https://www.flickr.com/photos/govert1970/3926175535 The Devil's Rock: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Picswiss_UR-30-07.jpg Music: "Postbox Facto" by Blue Dot Sessions  

415-Aesop’s Fables: Bray it Ain’t So (ad-free)

By |2025-08-14T13:45:19-04:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: Member Post|

🫏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, you take it. Then, spend the rest of the time trying to get back to captivity because the world is dangerous and [...]

O. Henry: Desperate Men

By |2025-08-06T22:28:18-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: Member Post|

Two stories of crime and punishment and why kidnapping is wrong and dangerous but not for the reasons that you think. By American author O. Henry. Stories: The Ransom of Red Chief: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Whirligigs/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief After Twenty Years: https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/after-twenty-years/

414-Monkey King: Ham-bushed (ad-free)

By |2025-07-29T23:16:33-04:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: Member Post|

🐷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: Each Tened A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire. --- Links: 📚️ [...]

414-Monkey King: Ham-bushed

By |2025-07-29T23:18:50-04:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

🐷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: Each Tened A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire. [...]

413-European folklore: Justice (ad-free)

By |2025-07-09T23:12:33-04:00July 16th, 2025|Categories: Member Post|

🔔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 the bell of justice. King Charlemagne puts of a bell of justice and consequences ensue. 😈 The Creature: [...]

412-Indian folklore: Dicey

By |2025-07-02T00:58:10-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: Episodes, Podcast|Tags: |

🎲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 underwear. 😈 The Creature: Drekavac The creature is the Drekavac, and it's many things to many people. All [...]

412-Indian folklore: Dicey (ad-free)

By |2025-07-02T00:41:09-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Categories: Member Post|

🎲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 underwear. 😈 The Creature: Drekavac The creature is the Drekavac, and it's many things to many people. All of them are [...]

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