⛩️Stories from the Japanese countryside⛩️
Five interconnected stories of purpose, meaning, justice, talking animals, the boss falling off a cliff, mushrooms, and travel hampers.
😈 **The Creature: The Dinny Mara
The Dinny Mara is a friendly merman who wants to rehabilitate the reputation of water creatures. They could probably start by not drowning so many people?
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🎵 Music Credits
"Never a Worried One" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Denton" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Toadstool Runner" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Spiro's Etude" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Writer's Retreat" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Paper Crane Sonata" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Convex Marsa" by Blue Dot Sessions
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409: Reynard: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
🦊 Reynard the fox hates meetings, too 🦊
Especially because at most of the meetings he's invited to, people usually try to kill and eat him. Today, we're back in the stories of Reynard the fox, with sick kings, superpowered storks, and Isengrim the wolf trying to not constantly get skinned alive.
😈 The Creature: The Devs
I guess you have to worry about head trauma and TBI a lot less when you have seven heads.
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📖 (English) Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=_L4fAAAAIAAJ
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🎵 Music Credits
"Devanz" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Spunker" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Laddo" by Blue Dot Sessions
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408: Knights of the Round Table: Hither and Thither
🏰When a knight says he'll be right back, he means it
Unless he dies. Or gets captured. Or just forgets about it, prompting his son to come looking for him in the land of wickedness...and also maybe saving Camelot in the process? It's the story of Sir Morien.
😈 The Creature: The Kaichigo
All those games you haven't played are lonely...and also maybe messing with your stuff in the basement.
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Morien: https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/morien-weston.pdf
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🎵 Music Credits
"Caravan 9" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Firelight Child" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Lovers Hollow" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Our Ears, Deceivers" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Road Fellow" by Blue Dot Sessions
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407: West African folklore: Wiser
🍼Have a budding tyrant? You need a snarky talking baby🍼
Yenga Naa is wiser than the chief. How do you know? Well, he named himself that...the moment he was born.
😈 The Creature: The Cornu
How do you torment sinners without getting your hands dirty? The cornu, that's how.
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Here's one of them: https://archive.org/details/africanfolklore00dors/page/420/mode/2up?q=wiser
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🎵 Music Credits
"Talltell" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Soda Baron" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Falaal" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Remsen" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Matamoscas" by Blue Dot Sessions
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406: Slavic folklore: Udder Nonsense
🐄Baba Yaga, Dragons, Giant Talking Pigs🐄
We'll see what happens when a king who wants one son gets more than he bargained for: three sons, with the oddest one of all, the one capable of calming dragons (when he's not slaying them) and outsmarting giant evil pigs (when he's not slaying them), being born...from a cow.
😈 The Creature: Coliunn Gun Cheaun
The worst, best headless friend you hopefully never had.
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🎵 Music Credits
"Bare Elm" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Hanging Rock" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Golden Grass" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Bauxite" by Blue Dot Sessions
- "Apollo Diedre" by Blue Dot Sessions
Jason Weiser and Carissa Weiser tell stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cultures throughout history. Some, like the stories of Aladdin, King Arthur, and Hercules are stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories you might not have heard, but really should. All the stories are sourced from world folklore, but retold for modern ears. These are stories of wizards, knights, Vikings, dragons, princesses, and kings from the time when the world beyond the map was a dangerous and wonderful place.