November 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Pepperworld baby! Told from the Pepperworld headquarters comes the story of the little boy Peppercorn from Italy and the Princess Pepperina from India!
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Hello, welcome to Esoterica and Nonsense, a podcast where we
discuss myths, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, supernatural
phenomenon and religions from around the world.
I'm your host Annabelle Banana hell slash pepper bell.
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It is the thunderstorm slash like little rainstorm happening
around and I'm burning some PaloSanto and because I'm obsessed
with Peppers and I talk about Peppers all the time because I
live in pepper world and I am pepper bell.
We're going to tell some storiesabout Peppers today.
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I appreciate you so much Let's tell some fun little pepper
stories. Why don't we?
Why don't we? I'm really, really, really,
really excited about these stories because I, I kind of
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discovered these on a fluke and I haven't read them yet.
So this is going to be a surprise for me and you.
And our first story is called Peppercorn.
That's actually what I call popcorn peppercorn.
And this is an Italian folk talecalled Peppercorn.
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Let's dive right in, baby. Once Upon a time there was an
old man and an old woman who hadno children, and one day the old
woman, the old woman, went into the fields and picked a basket
of beans. When she had finished she looked
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into the basket and said, I wishall the beans were children.
Scarcely had she uttered those words when a whole crowd of
little children sprang out of the basket and danced about her.
Such a family seemed too large for the old woman, so she said.
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I wish you would all become beans again.
Immediately the children climbedback into the basket and became
beans again, all except 1 littleboy whom the old woman took home
with her. Stop it, little bean babies.
Little babies that were born outof beans.
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Little Beanie Babies. This is so fun.
OK. The boy was so small that
everybody called him Little Peppercorn.
And so good and charming that everybody loved him.
Yeah, I love Peppercorn. What a nice boy.
He's a bean boy. Peppercorn's a nice bean boy.
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One day the old woman was cooking her soup, and little
peppercorn climbed up on the kettle and looked in to see what
was cooking. But he slipped, and he fell into
the boiling broth and was scalded to death.
Oh my God. This took a dark turn in the
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course of one sentence. Jesus.
The old woman did not notice until meal time that he was
missing, and looked in vain for him everywhere to call him to
dinner. This is bad, This is real bad.
At last they sat down to the table without little peppercorn,
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and when they poured the soup out of the kettle into the dish,
the body of little peppercorn floated on top.
This is fucked up. Who wrote this story?
What kind of sicko wrote? I kind of love it but like I'm
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just imagining some like freaky deaky old grandma telling this
to her grandchildren and the grandchildren being like Oh my
God because this is dark dude. Then the old man and the old
woman began to mourn and cry. Dear Peppercorn is dead.
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Dear Peppercorn is dead. RIP Peppercorn.
When the dove heard it, she toreout her feathers and cried.
Dear Peppercorn is dead. The old man and the old woman
are mourning. When the apple tree saw that the
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dove tore out her feathers, it asked her why she did so, and
when it learned the reason, it shook off all of its apples in
like manner and well near by poured.
Oh, OK, in like manner the nearby well poured out all of
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its water. The Queen's maid broke her
pitcher, the queen broke her arm, and the king threw his
crown on the ground so that it broke into 1000 pieces.
And when his people asked him what the matter was, he
answered. Dear Peppercorn is dead.
The old man and the old woman mourn.
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The dove has torn out her feathers.
The apple tree has shaken off all of its apples, the well has
poured out all of its water, themaid has broken her pitcher, the
queen has broken her arm, and I,the king, have lost my crown
because dear Peppercorn is dead.And that's the, that's the story
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of Peppercorn. I feel like I, I feel like we're
missing something like, like bighere, you know, like what, what
type of like cultural relevance does pepper or peppercorn have
in Italian folk tales? Or like perhaps perhaps that he
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was born out of a bean. I do know that in in some, some
beans in Italy are thought to have like religious importance,
at least, maybe like, quote UN quote, Pagan culture.
Some beans were thought to have like medicinal and godly
purposes. I'm just kind of like shooting
in the dark here, trying to likeunderstand this is like so
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dramatic. This was a really short story
that turned dark really quick and it ends with the queen
breaking her own arm and the king shattering his crown.
If only we lived in a world where people cared that much.
Could you imagine if we lived ina world where kings and Queens
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like really just flipped when 1 cute little baby died?
If only I kind of love this story.
Shout out to Peppercorn. We love you dog.
Rest in rest in perfection, restin power.
We love you Peppercorn. OK, let's tell story #2
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hopefully it's equally as bizarre as our dear Peppercorn.
It's honestly so on brand. This is why I love the word
pepper. If you want to know why I'm
obsessed with the word pepper, it happened randomly.
I was in Brazil volunteering on a farm in the middle of nowhere
in the state of Goyas, and we spent working on this farm.
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We spent like maybe two or threedays picking Peppers, these
little tiny Peppers. There were so many fucking
Peppers. And so by day three, we were
kind of slap happy and it just became pepper this and pepper
that. And my good friend was in a
really bad mood because she was dating this idiot and they broke
up. And so we were like, you're,
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you're a sad pepper. And so we sang the sad pepper
song and then, you know, all of a sudden everything became a
pepper. You know, that's a handsome
pepper. That's a nice little pepper.
All of a sudden, the dogs on theproperty become nice Peppers.
All of a sudden in the morning, you know, you go to the bathroom
to take a hot pepper. All of a sudden, pepper becomes
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the word for everything. And now here we are still using
pepper. And I promise you now that now
that pepper has entered your life, pepper is going to be
everywhere. It's going to blow your mind.
You're going to watch TV and someone's last name is going to
be Pepper or you're going to it.It just, I'm, I'm telling you,
it's going to blow your mind. Peppers are everywhere.
And so this story story #2 is called Princess Pepperina.
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And this is a story from India. I'm very, very excited.
A bull bull once lived in a forest.
OK, we're already pausing. I don't know what a bull bull
is. Bull, bull.
What does it mean? Oh, bull bull is a bird.
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It is a, it's often called the red vented bull bull.
And yeah, it's like a cute little, it's a cute little bird.
It's like a tiny, tiny little chunky boy.
And it, you know, I, I don't know what I would compare it to,
like a swallow. I don't know, I, I'm not really
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good at classifying birds, but it's like a, it's a small little
round boy, you know, super, super cute.
A small little chunky round boy,OK, a bull Bull once lived in a
forest and sang all day to her mate till 1 morning.
She said, Oh dearest husband, you sing beautifully, but I
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should so like some nice green pepper to eat.
The obedient bull bull at once flew off to find some, but
though he flew for miles, peeping into every garden by the
way, he could not discover a single green pepper.
Either there was no fruit at allon the bushes, but only tiny
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White Star flowers, or the Peppers were all ripe and
Crimson red. At last, right out in the
wilderness, he came upon a high walled garden.
Tall mango trees shaded it on all sides, shutting out fierce
sunshine and rough winds, and within grew innumerable flowers
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and fruits. But there was no sign of life
within its walls. No birds, no butterflies, only
silence in a perfume of flowers.MMM, this sounds a little bit
like an enchanted garden, methinks.
The bulbul alighted in the middle of the garden and lo,
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there grew a solitary pepper plant, and amid the polished
leaves shown a single green fruit of immense size, gleaming
like an emerald. An emerald pepper.
Oh my God, that's beautiful. Greatly delighted, the bird flew
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home to his mate, and telling her he had found the most
beautiful green pepper in the world, brought her back with him
to the garden, where she at oncebegan to eat the delicious
morsel, now the gin to whom the garden belonged.
I told you it was an enchanted garden.
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I could smell it. This is like this is safety one
O 1. If you're anywhere in the world
and or nature and there's no animals like no birds, no bugs,
no creatures in its silent red flag.
That's like the biggest red flagin the book means it's something
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dangerous as afoot or maybe you're the danger.
Now. The Jinn to whom the garden
belonged had all this time been asleep in a summer house, and as
he generally kept awake for 12 whole years and then slept for
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another 12 years, he was of course very sound asleep and
knew nothing of the blue boo's coming and going.
Nevertheless, as the time of hisawakening was not far off, he
had dreadful nightmares whilst the green pepper was being
picked to pieces and becoming restless.
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He awoke just when the blue boo's wife, after laying one
glittering emerald green egg beneath the pepper plant, flew
away with her husband. Oh no, they fucked up.
They ate the green pepper and they laid an emerald green egg
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underneath the pepper plant. It's a pepper egg.
They ate a pepper and they had apepper egg, and now the gin is
going to find it and he's going to be pissed.
It's a huge mistake. As usual, the gin, after yawning
and stretching, went to see how his pet Pepper was getting on.
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Great was his sorrow and rage atfinding it pecked to pieces.
He could not imagine what had done the mischief, knowing as he
did that neither bird, beast, nor insect lived in the garden.
Some dreadful creeping thing from that horrid world outside
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must have broken in whilst I slept, said the Jinn to himself,
and immediately began to search for the intruder.
He found nothing, however, but the glittering green egg with
which he was so much astonished that he took it to his summer
house, wrapped it up in cotton wool, and put it away carefully
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in a carved niche in the wall. Every day he went and looked at
it, sighing over the thought of his lost pepper.
Until 1 morning. Lo and behold, the egg had
disappeared and in its place satthe loveliest little maiden,
dressed from head to foot in emerald green, while round her
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neck hung a single emerald of great sized, shaped just like
the green pepper. Oh my God, it's the pepper
Princess. Are you kidding me?
Can you imagine a necklace with a single emerald shaped like a
magical green pepper? Oh this is literally my dream
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come true. This is the pepper Princess and
she was born from little bull boos who laid her in in an
emerald egg under an enchanted pepper plant.
And the pepper plant was the pepper pet of a gin.
This is so fun. Who?
I almost feel like I wrote this in a past life because this is
just bananas. Dude, this is this is so good.
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OK, The Jinn who was quiet, the jinn who was a quiet and
inoffensive creature, whatever that means, was delighted, for
he loved children, and this one was the daintiest little morsel
he ever beheld. Does does that mean he likes
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eating children? I'm confused.
So he made it the business of his life to tend Princess
Pepperina for such, the maiden informed him was her name.
Oh my God, this is a dream come true now.
When 12 years had passed by in the flowery garden, it became
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time for the good-natured Jinn to go to sleep again, and it
puzzled him very much to think what would become of his
Princess when he was no longer able to take care of her.
But it so happened that a great king and his minister, while
hunting in the forest, came uponthe high walled garden, and
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being curious to see what was inside, they climbed over the
wall and found the lovely Princess Pepperina seeded by the
pepper plant. Oh my God, I'm going to freak
out, this is so good. Naturally, as we all saw coming,
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the king immediately fell in love with Princess Pepperina
because she is everything and inthe most elegant language begged
her to be his wife. But the Princess hung down her
head modestly, saying Not so. You must ask the jinn who owns
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this garden. Only he has an unfortunate habit
of eating men sometimes. Sorry, you're going to have to
ask my guardian. But sometimes he eats people.
Nevertheless, when she saw the young king kneeling before her,
she could not help thinking him the handsomest and most splendid
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young man in the world. I mean, she's never seen a
single man in her life. So just saying.
Her heart softened, and when sheheard the jinn's footsteps, she
cried. Hide yourself in the garden, and
I will see if I can persuade my guardian to listen to you.
No sooner had the jinn appeared than he began to sniff about and
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cry. Fee FA fum, I smell the blood of
a man. Then the Princess Pepperina
soothed him, saying, Dear Jin, you may eat me if you like, for
there is no one else here. And then the Jinn replied,
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kissing and caressing her the while.
My dearest life, I would sooner eat bricks and mortar after
that. The Princess cunningly led the
conversation to the Djinn's approaching slumbers, and
wondered tearfully what she should do alone in the walled
garden. At this the good hearted jinn
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became greatly troubled, until at last he declared that the
best plan would be to marry her to some young noble man.
But, he added, a worthy husband was hard to find, especially as
it was necessary. He should be as handsome as a
man as Princess Pepperina was beautiful amongst women.
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Hearing this, the Princess seized her opportunity and asked
the jinn if he would promise to let her marry anyone who was as
beautiful as she was. The jinn promised faithfully,
little thinking the Princess already had her eye on such a
one, and was immensely astonished when she clapped her
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hands and the splendid young king appeared from a thicket.
Nevertheless, when the young couple stood together hand in
hand, even the djinn was obligedto own that such a handsome pair
had never before been seen. So he gave his consent to their
marriage, which was performed inever so great a hurry, for
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already the djinn had begun to nod and yawn.
Still, when it came to saying goodbye to his dear little
Princess, he wept so much that the tears kept him awake.
Oh, he loves a little Princess Pepperina.
The jinn followed her in his thoughts, until the desire to
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see her face once more became sostrong that he changed himself
into a dove, which, flying afterher, fluttered above her head.
She seemed quite happy, talking and whispering to her handsome
husband, so he flew home again to sleep.
But the green mantle of his dearlittle Princess Pepperina kept
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floating before his eyes so thathe could not rest, and changing
himself into a hawk, he speed after her, circling far above
her head. She was smiling by her husband's
side, So the djinn flew home to his garden, yawning terribly.
But the soft eyes of his dear little Pepperina seemed to look
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into his driving sleep far from them.
So he changed into an eagle and soaring far above into the blue
sky, saw with his bright piercing gaze the Princess
entering a King's palace far away on the horizon.
Then the good jinn was satisfiedand fell fast asleep.
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Now, during the years which followed, the young king
remained passionately in love with his beautiful bride.
But the other women in the palace were very jealous of her,
especially after she gave birth to the most lovely young Prince
imaginable. Yeah, because he was a pepper
Prince. Hello.
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They determined to compass her ruin and spent hours in thinking
how they might kill her or lay asnare for her.
Damn what a bummer. Like y'all can't even celebrate
Princess Pepperina. Why y'all gotta hate on my girl?
She's just a little green pepperemerald girl.
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Sorry. Every night they would come to
the door of the Queen's room andwhisper to see if she was awake.
The Princess Pepperina is awake but all the world is fast asleep
now. The emerald which the young
queen still wore round her neck was a real Talisman and always
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told the truth. If anyone ever whispered a story
it just up and out with the truth and once and shamed the
culprit without remorse. Oh wow.
OK so this green pepper is an instrument of truth.
I love that. See Peppers, Peppers do Peppers
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be as Peppers do. I think that's how the saying
goes. So the emerald on these
occasions would answer not so. And the Princess Pepperina is
asleep. It is the world that wakes.
Oh shit, so now these girls are using her pepper Talisman to see
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if she's awake or not. Damn it, that's fucked.
Then the wicked women would shrink away, for they knew they
had no power to harm the Princess while the Talisman was
round her neck. At last it so happened that when
the young queen was bathing, shetook off the Emerald Pepper
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Talisman and left it by mistake in the bathing place.
Damn it. So that night when the jealous
women, as usual, came whisperinground the door, the Princess
Pepperina is awake. But all the world sleeps.
The truthful Talisman called outfrom the bathing place.
Not so the Princess Pepperina sleeps.
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It is the world that wakes. Knowing by the sound of the
talisman's voice that it was notin its usual place, these wicked
creatures stall into the room. Gently killed the infant Prince
who was peacefully sleeping in his little crib in his little
crib, and cut him into little bits and laid them on his
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mother's bed and gently stained her lips with the blood.
What the fuck? These women are sickos, dude.
Both of these stories, both of these Pepper stories have taken
dark turns. Like real quickly.
You have to be hella hateful to kill an infant.
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Cut, cut the baby into bits, laythem on its mother's bed and and
stain her lips with the blood. You're fucking sick.
These these women need therapy. Like years of therapy.
Who hurt these women? Jesus Early the next morning
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they flew to the King, weeping and wailing, bidding him come
and see the horrible sight. Look, said they, the beautiful
wife you loved so much is an ogress.
We warned you against her, and now she has killed her child in
order to eat its flesh. The King was terribly grieved
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and wroth, for he loved his wifeand yet could not deny she was
an ogress, so he ordered her to be whipped out of his Kingdom
and then slain. Wow, you're really going to
trust these ladies over your ownShorty?
This is so despicable. I'm despic.
This is so lame. Fuck these girls dude, they're
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hella mean. So the lovely, tender, fair
young queen was scourged out of the land and then cruelly
murdered whilst the wicked, jealous women rejoiced at their
evil success. Where's the Talisman like, like
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why hasn't she gotten up and gotten the pepper Talisman?
So the pepper Talisman could leteveryone know what happened?
Like this is crazy right now I'mI'm upset.
But when the Princess Pepperina died, her body became a high
white marble wall, Her eyes turned into liquid pools of
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water, her green mantle changed into stretches of verdant grass,
her long curly hair into lovely creepers and tendrils, while her
scarlet mouth and white teeth became a beautiful bed of roses
and Narcissus. Then her soul took the form of a
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shell Drake and it's mate, thoseloving birds which like the
turtle dove are always constant and floating on the liquid
pools. They mourned all day long in the
sad fate of the Princess Pepperina.
Oh this is so romantic. I love Princess Pepperina, what
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a nice pepper she is. Now.
After many days, the young king,who despite her supposed crime
could not help be wailing his beautiful bride, went out a
hunting and finding no game, wandered far afield until he
came to the high white marble wall.
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Curious to see what it enclosed,he climbed over onto the verdant
grass where the tendrils waved softly, the roses and Narcissus
blossomed, and the loving birds floated on the liquid pools.
Morning all day long, the king, weary and sad, lay down to rest
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in the lovely spot and listened to the cry of the birds.
And as he listened, the meaning seemed to grow plain, so that he
heard them tell the whole story of the wicked women's treachery.
Yes, justice for Pepperina, my pepper queen.
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Then the one bird said, weeping to the other, Can she never
become alive again? And the other answered, if the
king were to catch us and hold us close, heart to heart, while
he severed our heads from our bodies with the blow of his
sword, so that neither of us should die before the other, the
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Princess Pepperina would become alive once more.
But if one dies before the other, she will always remain as
she is. Wow, just like a casual blood
magic ritual. No big deal.
You have to catch two birds and hold them heart to heart and
behead them instantaneously. That's blood magic, dude.
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But you know what? For my Princess Pepperina, I
mean, also, these birds are likemade out of her soul.
I guess I'm with it. This is just like, this is just
intense, dude. Everything you could ever want
is in this story. There's birds laying emerald
green eggs. There's gin.
There's a pepper Princess with an emerald pepper necklace.
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Blood magic. Like what else could you want?
Tell me nothing I answered for you nothing.
This is checking every single fucking box.
Then the king with a beating heart called the birds to him,
and they came quite readily, standing heart to heart, while
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he cut off their heads with one blow of his sword, so that they
fell dead at the self same moment.
At that very same instant, the Princess Pepperina appeared,
smiling, more beautiful than ever.
But strange to say, the liquid pools, the grass, the climbing
tendrils and the flowers remained as they were.
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Yeah, because she's a magical pepper.
She's literally pure magic. There's this beautiful enchanted
secret garden. Now I'm obsessed with the
Princess Pepperina. She is my queen.
Then the king besought her to return home with him, vowing he
would never again distrust her and would put all the wicked
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traitors to death. But she refused, saying she
would prefer to live always within the high white marble
walls where no one could disturbher.
Just so cried the Djinn, who, having but that moment awakened
from his 12 years sleep, had flown straight to his dearest
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Princess. Here you shall live, and I will
live with you. Then he built the king and queen
a magnificent palace where they lived very happily ever after.
And as no one knew anything about it, no one was jealous of
the beautiful Princess Pepperina.
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Aw Pepperina, she is so nice. I love Pepperina.
I'm literally obsessed with Pepperina.
What a nice girl. I'm just out of pure curiosity
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want to learn more about Peppers.
Like like what is it about Peppers they they are so
powerful. OK so I just found this random
website and the title is Hot Chili Pepper Spiritual meaning.
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Let's read what they have to say.
Hot Chili Peppers are more than just tantalizing elements in our
cuisine. They are imbued with profound
spiritual meaning and ancestral wisdom.
Hot Chili Peppers symbolize passion and intensity,
representing a fiery spirit and the audacity to take on life's
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challenges head on. Their intense heat serves as a
reminder of the vigor and determination needed to live
with passion and to make the most out of life.
Just as the spice of a chili canimmediately transform a dish,
the spiritual meaning encouragesindividuals to infuse their
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lives with enthusiasm and fervor.
The vibrant red color of Hot Chili Peppers further symbolizes
power, desire, and strength, reinforcing the values of
courage, persistence, and the willingness to embrace life with
all its intensity. OK, I mean, I'm not mad at that,
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but I guess it doesn't really give us like, I want something
more concrete. I want to hear like, I want to
hear more, more, more, more, more.
Peppers. Have you, have you ever had like
a dream about a pepper? I haven't, but I would love, I
would love to have a dream abouta pepper.
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I'm just so inspired by Peppers.Peppers, please do you have a
story about a pepper because I would love to hear.
Well, that was just a short little diddly for you.
I hope you're having a beautifulday and I hope you're inspired
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by Peppercorn and little Princess Pepperina.
Thank you so much for listening and I hope that you have the
best day and the best life. Over and out, baby.
Hello, welcome to Esoterica and Nonsense, a podcast where we
discuss myths, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, supernatural
phenomenon and religions from around the world.
I'm your host Annabelle Banana hell slash pepper bell.
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It is the thunderstorm slash like little rainstorm happening
around and I'm burning some PaloSanto and because I'm obsessed
with Peppers and I talk about Peppers all the time because I
live in pepper world and I am pepper bell.
We're going to tell some storiesabout Peppers today.
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of yourself and I hope you're drinking lots of water.
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I appreciate you so much Let's tell some fun little pepper
stories. Why don't we?
Why don't we? I'm really, really, really,
really excited about these stories because I, I kind of
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discovered these on a fluke and I haven't read them yet.
So this is going to be a surprise for me and you.
And our first story is called Peppercorn.
That's actually what I call popcorn peppercorn.
And this is an Italian folk talecalled Peppercorn.
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Let's dive right in, baby. Once Upon a time there was an
old man and an old woman who hadno children, and one day the old
woman, the old woman, went into the fields and picked a basket
of beans. When she had finished she looked
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into the basket and said, I wishall the beans were children.
Scarcely had she uttered those words when a whole crowd of
little children sprang out of the basket and danced about her.
Such a family seemed too large for the old woman, so she said.
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I wish you would all become beans again.
Immediately the children climbedback into the basket and became
beans again, all except 1 littleboy whom the old woman took home
with her. Stop it, little bean babies.
Little babies that were born outof beans.
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Little Beanie Babies. This is so fun.
OK. The boy was so small that
everybody called him Little Peppercorn.
And so good and charming that everybody loved him.
Yeah, I love Peppercorn. What a nice boy.
He's a bean boy. Peppercorn's a nice bean boy.
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One day the old woman was cooking her soup, and little
peppercorn climbed up on the kettle and looked in to see what
was cooking. But he slipped, and he fell into
the boiling broth and was scalded to death.
Oh my God. This took a dark turn in the
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course of one sentence. Jesus.
The old woman did not notice until meal time that he was
missing, and looked in vain for him everywhere to call him to
dinner. This is bad, This is real bad.
At last they sat down to the table without little peppercorn,
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and when they poured the soup out of the kettle into the dish,
the body of little peppercorn floated on top.
This is fucked up. Who wrote this story?
What kind of sicko wrote? I kind of love it but like I'm
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just imagining some like freaky deaky old grandma telling this
to her grandchildren and the grandchildren being like Oh my
God because this is dark dude. Then the old man and the old
woman began to mourn and cry. Dear Peppercorn is dead.
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Dear Peppercorn is dead. RIP Peppercorn.
When the dove heard it, she toreout her feathers and cried.
Dear Peppercorn is dead. The old man and the old woman
are mourning. When the apple tree saw that the
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dove tore out her feathers, it asked her why she did so, and
when it learned the reason, it shook off all of its apples in
like manner and well near by poured.
Oh, OK, in like manner the nearby well poured out all of
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its water. The Queen's maid broke her
pitcher, the queen broke her arm, and the king threw his
crown on the ground so that it broke into 1000 pieces.
And when his people asked him what the matter was, he
answered. Dear Peppercorn is dead.
The old man and the old woman mourn.
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The dove has torn out her feathers.
The apple tree has shaken off all of its apples, the well has
poured out all of its water, themaid has broken her pitcher, the
queen has broken her arm, and I,the king, have lost my crown
because dear Peppercorn is dead.And that's the, that's the story
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of Peppercorn. I feel like I, I feel like we're
missing something like, like bighere, you know, like what, what
type of like cultural relevance does pepper or peppercorn have
in Italian folk tales? Or like perhaps perhaps that he
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was born out of a bean. I do know that in in some, some
beans in Italy are thought to have like religious importance,
at least, maybe like, quote UN quote, Pagan culture.
Some beans were thought to have like medicinal and godly
purposes. I'm just kind of like shooting
in the dark here, trying to likeunderstand this is like so
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dramatic. This was a really short story
that turned dark really quick and it ends with the queen
breaking her own arm and the king shattering his crown.
If only we lived in a world where people cared that much.
Could you imagine if we lived ina world where kings and Queens
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like really just flipped when 1 cute little baby died?
If only I kind of love this story.
Shout out to Peppercorn. We love you dog.
Rest in rest in perfection, restin power.
We love you Peppercorn. OK, let's tell story #2
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hopefully it's equally as bizarre as our dear Peppercorn.
It's honestly so on brand. This is why I love the word
pepper. If you want to know why I'm
obsessed with the word pepper, it happened randomly.
I was in Brazil volunteering on a farm in the middle of nowhere
in the state of Goyas, and we spent working on this farm.
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We spent like maybe two or threedays picking Peppers, these
little tiny Peppers. There were so many fucking
Peppers. And so by day three, we were
kind of slap happy and it just became pepper this and pepper
that. And my good friend was in a
really bad mood because she was dating this idiot and they broke
up. And so we were like, you're,
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you're a sad pepper. And so we sang the sad pepper
song and then, you know, all of a sudden everything became a
pepper. You know, that's a handsome
pepper. That's a nice little pepper.
All of a sudden, the dogs on theproperty become nice Peppers.
All of a sudden in the morning, you know, you go to the bathroom
to take a hot pepper. All of a sudden, pepper becomes
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the word for everything. And now here we are still using
pepper. And I promise you now that now
that pepper has entered your life, pepper is going to be
everywhere. It's going to blow your mind.
You're going to watch TV and someone's last name is going to
be Pepper or you're going to it.It just, I'm, I'm telling you,
it's going to blow your mind. Peppers are everywhere.
And so this story story #2 is called Princess Pepperina.
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And this is a story from India. I'm very, very excited.
A bull bull once lived in a forest.
OK, we're already pausing. I don't know what a bull bull
is. Bull, bull.
What does it mean? Oh, bull bull is a bird.
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It is a, it's often called the red vented bull bull.
And yeah, it's like a cute little, it's a cute little bird.
It's like a tiny, tiny little chunky boy.
And it, you know, I, I don't know what I would compare it to,
like a swallow. I don't know, I, I'm not really
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good at classifying birds, but it's like a, it's a small little
round boy, you know, super, super cute.
A small little chunky round boy,OK, a bull Bull once lived in a
forest and sang all day to her mate till 1 morning.
She said, Oh dearest husband, you sing beautifully, but I
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should so like some nice green pepper to eat.
The obedient bull bull at once flew off to find some, but
though he flew for miles, peeping into every garden by the
way, he could not discover a single green pepper.
Either there was no fruit at allon the bushes, but only tiny
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White Star flowers, or the Peppers were all ripe and
Crimson red. At last, right out in the
wilderness, he came upon a high walled garden.
Tall mango trees shaded it on all sides, shutting out fierce
sunshine and rough winds, and within grew innumerable flowers
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and fruits. But there was no sign of life
within its walls. No birds, no butterflies, only
silence in a perfume of flowers.MMM, this sounds a little bit
like an enchanted garden, methinks.
The bulbul alighted in the middle of the garden and lo,
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there grew a solitary pepper plant, and amid the polished
leaves shown a single green fruit of immense size, gleaming
like an emerald. An emerald pepper.
Oh my God, that's beautiful. Greatly delighted, the bird flew
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home to his mate, and telling her he had found the most
beautiful green pepper in the world, brought her back with him
to the garden, where she at oncebegan to eat the delicious
morsel, now the gin to whom the garden belonged.
I told you it was an enchanted garden.
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I could smell it. This is like this is safety one
O 1. If you're anywhere in the world
and or nature and there's no animals like no birds, no bugs,
no creatures in its silent red flag.
That's like the biggest red flagin the book means it's something
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dangerous as afoot or maybe you're the danger.
Now. The Jinn to whom the garden
belonged had all this time been asleep in a summer house, and as
he generally kept awake for 12 whole years and then slept for
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another 12 years, he was of course very sound asleep and
knew nothing of the blue boo's coming and going.
Nevertheless, as the time of hisawakening was not far off, he
had dreadful nightmares whilst the green pepper was being
picked to pieces and becoming restless.
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He awoke just when the blue boo's wife, after laying one
glittering emerald green egg beneath the pepper plant, flew
away with her husband. Oh no, they fucked up.
They ate the green pepper and they laid an emerald green egg
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underneath the pepper plant. It's a pepper egg.
They ate a pepper and they had apepper egg, and now the gin is
going to find it and he's going to be pissed.
It's a huge mistake. As usual, the gin, after yawning
and stretching, went to see how his pet Pepper was getting on.
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Great was his sorrow and rage atfinding it pecked to pieces.
He could not imagine what had done the mischief, knowing as he
did that neither bird, beast, nor insect lived in the garden.
Some dreadful creeping thing from that horrid world outside
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must have broken in whilst I slept, said the Jinn to himself,
and immediately began to search for the intruder.
He found nothing, however, but the glittering green egg with
which he was so much astonished that he took it to his summer
house, wrapped it up in cotton wool, and put it away carefully
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in a carved niche in the wall. Every day he went and looked at
it, sighing over the thought of his lost pepper.
Until 1 morning. Lo and behold, the egg had
disappeared and in its place satthe loveliest little maiden,
dressed from head to foot in emerald green, while round her
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neck hung a single emerald of great sized, shaped just like
the green pepper. Oh my God, it's the pepper
Princess. Are you kidding me?
Can you imagine a necklace with a single emerald shaped like a
magical green pepper? Oh this is literally my dream
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come true. This is the pepper Princess and
she was born from little bull boos who laid her in in an
emerald egg under an enchanted pepper plant.
And the pepper plant was the pepper pet of a gin.
This is so fun. Who?
I almost feel like I wrote this in a past life because this is
just bananas. Dude, this is this is so good.
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OK, The Jinn who was quiet, the jinn who was a quiet and
inoffensive creature, whatever that means, was delighted, for
he loved children, and this one was the daintiest little morsel
he ever beheld. Does does that mean he likes
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eating children? I'm confused.
So he made it the business of his life to tend Princess
Pepperina for such, the maiden informed him was her name.
Oh my God, this is a dream come true now.
When 12 years had passed by in the flowery garden, it became
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time for the good-natured Jinn to go to sleep again, and it
puzzled him very much to think what would become of his
Princess when he was no longer able to take care of her.
But it so happened that a great king and his minister, while
hunting in the forest, came uponthe high walled garden, and
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being curious to see what was inside, they climbed over the
wall and found the lovely Princess Pepperina seeded by the
pepper plant. Oh my God, I'm going to freak
out, this is so good. Naturally, as we all saw coming,
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the king immediately fell in love with Princess Pepperina
because she is everything and inthe most elegant language begged
her to be his wife. But the Princess hung down her
head modestly, saying Not so. You must ask the jinn who owns
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this garden. Only he has an unfortunate habit
of eating men sometimes. Sorry, you're going to have to
ask my guardian. But sometimes he eats people.
Nevertheless, when she saw the young king kneeling before her,
she could not help thinking him the handsomest and most splendid
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young man in the world. I mean, she's never seen a
single man in her life. So just saying.
Her heart softened, and when sheheard the jinn's footsteps, she
cried. Hide yourself in the garden, and
I will see if I can persuade my guardian to listen to you.
No sooner had the jinn appeared than he began to sniff about and
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cry. Fee FA fum, I smell the blood of
a man. Then the Princess Pepperina
soothed him, saying, Dear Jin, you may eat me if you like, for
there is no one else here. And then the Jinn replied,
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kissing and caressing her the while.
My dearest life, I would sooner eat bricks and mortar after
that. The Princess cunningly led the
conversation to the Djinn's approaching slumbers, and
wondered tearfully what she should do alone in the walled
garden. At this the good hearted jinn
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became greatly troubled, until at last he declared that the
best plan would be to marry her to some young noble man.
But, he added, a worthy husband was hard to find, especially as
it was necessary. He should be as handsome as a
man as Princess Pepperina was beautiful amongst women.
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Hearing this, the Princess seized her opportunity and asked
the jinn if he would promise to let her marry anyone who was as
beautiful as she was. The jinn promised faithfully,
little thinking the Princess already had her eye on such a
one, and was immensely astonished when she clapped her
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hands and the splendid young king appeared from a thicket.
Nevertheless, when the young couple stood together hand in
hand, even the djinn was obligedto own that such a handsome pair
had never before been seen. So he gave his consent to their
marriage, which was performed inever so great a hurry, for
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already the djinn had begun to nod and yawn.
Still, when it came to saying goodbye to his dear little
Princess, he wept so much that the tears kept him awake.
Oh, he loves a little Princess Pepperina.
The jinn followed her in his thoughts, until the desire to
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see her face once more became sostrong that he changed himself
into a dove, which, flying afterher, fluttered above her head.
She seemed quite happy, talking and whispering to her handsome
husband, so he flew home again to sleep.
But the green mantle of his dearlittle Princess Pepperina kept
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floating before his eyes so thathe could not rest, and changing
himself into a hawk, he speed after her, circling far above
her head. She was smiling by her husband's
side, So the djinn flew home to his garden, yawning terribly.
But the soft eyes of his dear little Pepperina seemed to look
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into his driving sleep far from them.
So he changed into an eagle and soaring far above into the blue
sky, saw with his bright piercing gaze the Princess
entering a King's palace far away on the horizon.
Then the good jinn was satisfiedand fell fast asleep.
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Now, during the years which followed, the young king
remained passionately in love with his beautiful bride.
But the other women in the palace were very jealous of her,
especially after she gave birth to the most lovely young Prince
imaginable. Yeah, because he was a pepper
Prince. Hello.
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They determined to compass her ruin and spent hours in thinking
how they might kill her or lay asnare for her.
Damn what a bummer. Like y'all can't even celebrate
Princess Pepperina. Why y'all gotta hate on my girl?
She's just a little green pepperemerald girl.
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Sorry. Every night they would come to
the door of the Queen's room andwhisper to see if she was awake.
The Princess Pepperina is awake but all the world is fast asleep
now. The emerald which the young
queen still wore round her neck was a real Talisman and always
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told the truth. If anyone ever whispered a story
it just up and out with the truth and once and shamed the
culprit without remorse. Oh wow.
OK so this green pepper is an instrument of truth.
I love that. See Peppers, Peppers do Peppers
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be as Peppers do. I think that's how the saying
goes. So the emerald on these
occasions would answer not so. And the Princess Pepperina is
asleep. It is the world that wakes.
Oh shit, so now these girls are using her pepper Talisman to see
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if she's awake or not. Damn it, that's fucked.
Then the wicked women would shrink away, for they knew they
had no power to harm the Princess while the Talisman was
round her neck. At last it so happened that when
the young queen was bathing, shetook off the Emerald Pepper
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Talisman and left it by mistake in the bathing place.
Damn it. So that night when the jealous
women, as usual, came whisperinground the door, the Princess
Pepperina is awake. But all the world sleeps.
The truthful Talisman called outfrom the bathing place.
Not so the Princess Pepperina sleeps.
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It is the world that wakes. Knowing by the sound of the
talisman's voice that it was notin its usual place, these wicked
creatures stall into the room. Gently killed the infant Prince
who was peacefully sleeping in his little crib in his little
crib, and cut him into little bits and laid them on his
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mother's bed and gently stained her lips with the blood.
What the fuck? These women are sickos, dude.
Both of these stories, both of these Pepper stories have taken
dark turns. Like real quickly.
You have to be hella hateful to kill an infant.
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Cut, cut the baby into bits, laythem on its mother's bed and and
stain her lips with the blood. You're fucking sick.
These these women need therapy. Like years of therapy.
Who hurt these women? Jesus Early the next morning
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they flew to the King, weeping and wailing, bidding him come
and see the horrible sight. Look, said they, the beautiful
wife you loved so much is an ogress.
We warned you against her, and now she has killed her child in
order to eat its flesh. The King was terribly grieved
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and wroth, for he loved his wifeand yet could not deny she was
an ogress, so he ordered her to be whipped out of his Kingdom
and then slain. Wow, you're really going to
trust these ladies over your ownShorty?
This is so despicable. I'm despic.
This is so lame. Fuck these girls dude, they're
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hella mean. So the lovely, tender, fair
young queen was scourged out of the land and then cruelly
murdered whilst the wicked, jealous women rejoiced at their
evil success. Where's the Talisman like, like
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why hasn't she gotten up and gotten the pepper Talisman?
So the pepper Talisman could leteveryone know what happened?
Like this is crazy right now I'mI'm upset.
But when the Princess Pepperina died, her body became a high
white marble wall, Her eyes turned into liquid pools of
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water, her green mantle changed into stretches of verdant grass,
her long curly hair into lovely creepers and tendrils, while her
scarlet mouth and white teeth became a beautiful bed of roses
and Narcissus. Then her soul took the form of a
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shell Drake and it's mate, thoseloving birds which like the
turtle dove are always constant and floating on the liquid
pools. They mourned all day long in the
sad fate of the Princess Pepperina.
Oh this is so romantic. I love Princess Pepperina, what
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a nice pepper she is. Now.
After many days, the young king,who despite her supposed crime
could not help be wailing his beautiful bride, went out a
hunting and finding no game, wandered far afield until he
came to the high white marble wall.
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Curious to see what it enclosed,he climbed over onto the verdant
grass where the tendrils waved softly, the roses and Narcissus
blossomed, and the loving birds floated on the liquid pools.
Morning all day long, the king, weary and sad, lay down to rest
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in the lovely spot and listened to the cry of the birds.
And as he listened, the meaning seemed to grow plain, so that he
heard them tell the whole story of the wicked women's treachery.
Yes, justice for Pepperina, my pepper queen.
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Then the one bird said, weeping to the other, Can she never
become alive again? And the other answered, if the
king were to catch us and hold us close, heart to heart, while
he severed our heads from our bodies with the blow of his
sword, so that neither of us should die before the other, the
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Princess Pepperina would become alive once more.
But if one dies before the other, she will always remain as
she is. Wow, just like a casual blood
magic ritual. No big deal.
You have to catch two birds and hold them heart to heart and
behead them instantaneously. That's blood magic, dude.
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But you know what? For my Princess Pepperina, I
mean, also, these birds are likemade out of her soul.
I guess I'm with it. This is just like, this is just
intense, dude. Everything you could ever want
is in this story. There's birds laying emerald
green eggs. There's gin.
There's a pepper Princess with an emerald pepper necklace.
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Blood magic. Like what else could you want?
Tell me nothing I answered for you nothing.
This is checking every single fucking box.
Then the king with a beating heart called the birds to him,
and they came quite readily, standing heart to heart, while
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he cut off their heads with one blow of his sword, so that they
fell dead at the self same moment.
At that very same instant, the Princess Pepperina appeared,
smiling, more beautiful than ever.
But strange to say, the liquid pools, the grass, the climbing
tendrils and the flowers remained as they were.
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Yeah, because she's a magical pepper.
She's literally pure magic. There's this beautiful enchanted
secret garden. Now I'm obsessed with the
Princess Pepperina. She is my queen.
Then the king besought her to return home with him, vowing he
would never again distrust her and would put all the wicked
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traitors to death. But she refused, saying she
would prefer to live always within the high white marble
walls where no one could disturbher.
Just so cried the Djinn, who, having but that moment awakened
from his 12 years sleep, had flown straight to his dearest
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Princess. Here you shall live, and I will
live with you. Then he built the king and queen
a magnificent palace where they lived very happily ever after.
And as no one knew anything about it, no one was jealous of
the beautiful Princess Pepperina.
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Aw Pepperina, she is so nice. I love Pepperina.
I'm literally obsessed with Pepperina.
What a nice girl. I'm just out of pure curiosity
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want to learn more about Peppers.
Like like what is it about Peppers they they are so
powerful. OK so I just found this random
website and the title is Hot Chili Pepper Spiritual meaning.
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Let's read what they have to say.
Hot Chili Peppers are more than just tantalizing elements in our
cuisine. They are imbued with profound
spiritual meaning and ancestral wisdom.
Hot Chili Peppers symbolize passion and intensity,
representing a fiery spirit and the audacity to take on life's
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challenges head on. Their intense heat serves as a
reminder of the vigor and determination needed to live
with passion and to make the most out of life.
Just as the spice of a chili canimmediately transform a dish,
the spiritual meaning encouragesindividuals to infuse their
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lives with enthusiasm and fervor.
The vibrant red color of Hot Chili Peppers further symbolizes
power, desire, and strength, reinforcing the values of
courage, persistence, and the willingness to embrace life with
all its intensity. OK, I mean, I'm not mad at that,
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but I guess it doesn't really give us like, I want something
more concrete. I want to hear like, I want to
hear more, more, more, more, more.
Peppers. Have you, have you ever had like
a dream about a pepper? I haven't, but I would love, I
would love to have a dream abouta pepper.
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I'm just so inspired by Peppers.Peppers, please do you have a
story about a pepper because I would love to hear.
Well, that was just a short little diddly for you.
I hope you're having a beautifulday and I hope you're inspired
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by Peppercorn and little Princess Pepperina.
Thank you so much for listening and I hope that you have the
best day and the best life. Over and out, baby.
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