312-Norwegian Folklore: Let’s Dance
A Norweigian tale about why you should pay your employees a living wage (or at least not beat them and try to have them executed), or else you could end up in a neverending dance party.
A Norweigian tale about why you should pay your employees a living wage (or at least not beat them and try to have them executed), or else you could end up in a neverending dance party.
Two stories of absolutely real and definitely not fake doctors!
Griffin fights, dragons, sphinxes, giant turkey chariots, evil fairies, and cat-riding mythological dwarves. It's a big week.
The Egyptian folktale of a young woman who's not messing around. After fleeing her home, she only sees one way to live free: become a monster that haunts the wild.
A story from Russia about a soldier with some biscuits who fights demons, heaven, and yes, death herself.
A story from the Grimm brothers about three down-on-their-luck soldiers who get everything they could ever dream of and then do their absolute best to lose it.
Fortune favors the bold. Or people willing to put up with a terrible decade. Or the best liars.
The story of the master thief from Norway.
Two (originally children's) tales that underscore the shocking brutality of the world in which these stories were told.
The wonderfully ridiculous and surprisingly human original story of Hansel and Gretel