Wizard of Oz: Defying Gravity (part 1 of 3)
A girl from Kansas takes a ride on a cyclone to a bizarre, ridiculous, and dangerous land. Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum: https://myths.link/oz
417-Guy of Warwick: Don’t Be That Guy
🛡️This Guy?🛡️ This guy is Guy of Warwick, and he's your guy. But only if you need someone to be the best guy in the world at fighting and killing. It's just too bad Guy hates being that guy. 😈 The Creatures: The Freybug and the Barguest Two black dogs who might give [...]
417-Guy of Warwick: Don’t Be That Guy (ad-free)
🛡️This Guy?🛡️ This guy is Guy of Warwick, and he's your guy. But only if you need someone to be the best guy in the world at fighting and killing. It's just too bad Guy hates being that guy. 😈 The Creatures: The Freybug and the Barguest Two black dogs who might give you wounds that [...]
Arsène Lupin: Unseen
Two stories of Arsène Lupin, gentleman burglar. In the first, the Queen's necklace has gone missing from a locked and guarded room. On the second, a man just wants to relax on the train where he won't be crowded by loud, smoking people...or getting tied up and repeatedly punched in the face. Sources: Arsène Lupin: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6133/pg6133-images.html
Member episode 111-Hans Christian Andensen: Oh My Glob
Hans Christian Andersen tries his hand at a Viking-esque story of revenge, when Bishop Glob decides he wants to be more than a corrupt Bishop: he wants to be a corrupt bishop who owns slightly more land. How much murder will it take for him to do that? The creature this week is the Falcon-fish, and [...]
416-Hans Christian Andersen: Humbugs
🪲They're not so different🪲 One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants to fight God, the other wants to wear golden horse shoes. When it comes to being completely arrogant and insufferable, though, they have more in common than you might think. It's two fairy tales [...]
416-Hans Christian Andersen: Humbugs (ad-free)
🪲They're not so different🪲 One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants to fight God, the other wants to wear golden horse shoes. When it comes to being completely arrogant and insufferable, though, they have more in common than you might think. It's two fairy tales of pride and [...]
Member Episode 110-Swiss folklore: A Bridge Too Far
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
🫏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 [...]
415-Aesop’s Fables: Bray it Ain’t So (ad-free)
🫏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 [...]