255-Chinese Folklore: Picture Me This
Why the hot new dating craze is just bleeding on strangers and seeing if something worked out.
255-Chinese Folklore: Picture Me This (ad-free)
A story from China where we see a young man embark on a dangerous journey for love that definitely isn't a knock-off version of "The Journey to the West" and/or "The Hobbit". Then, we learn how the world's first selfie resulted in kind of more death than you'd think. The creature his a demon from Japan...who's [...]
254-Spanish Folklore: Ready or Not
It's never too late to start on the Hero's Journey...and stuff yourself in a smelly parrot.
253B-Monkey King: The Good Guys
Monkey has been fired. Sandy has been captured. Pigsy is fleeing in terror, and the monk is about to be cut to pieces by a room full of angry guys. Things are not going well.
253-Monkey King: Severance
The Monkey King looks for food, does some murders, and gets fired.
252-Greek folklore: Name that Tune
Two stories of people fighting their fate. Badly.
251-Icelandic Legends: Ghosts of Christmas Past
Two stories of Christmas in Iceland. So that apparently means wizards and zombies?
250-Grimm: Fauxsicians
Two stories of absolutely real and definitely not fake doctors!
249-Italian Folklore: Unbearable
Two stories from Giambattista Basile, Neapolitan writer, of angry sisters, busted Mario pipes, and she-bears that are only mad if you try to force them into marriage. The creature is the wiffenpoof, who only wants to eat fancy cheeses and not get your chewing tobacco in his eyes. -- Links: Store: https://myths.link/store Membership: [...]
248-Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The Magic Words
Two stories of sorcerer's apprentices. The first picks the wrong major at wizard school. The second finds a creative way into school...by becoming a dangerous sorcerer's BFF.