Myths and Legends
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.
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July 16, 2025 • 54 mins
🔔Ring the bell for justice🔔
Want justice? Ring the bell. Doesn't matter if you're a horse or a snake or a merchant or a peasant but if you're one of the latter two probably don't get caught ringing the bell of justice. King Charlemagne puts of a bell of justice and consequences ensue.
😈 The Creature: The Dun Cow
A giant cow that just wants to give your free groceries. Just don't try to take more t...
😈 The Creature: The Dun Cow
A giant cow that just wants to give your free groceries. Just don't try to take more t...
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July 2, 2025 • 58 mins
🎲Losing your kingdom in a game of dice🎲
The story of Nala and Damayanti is a tale of love, loss, and losing everything but your underwear because of your terrible decisions and then also your underwear.
😈 The Creature: Drekavac
The creature is the Drekavac, and it's many things to many people. All of them are weird
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😈 The Creature: Drekavac
The creature is the Drekavac, and it's many things to many people. All of them are weird
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June 18, 2025 • 62 mins
⛵️Get lost at sea with Maelduin⛵️
All Maelduin wants to do is avenge his father's murder...with more murder. He should have listened to that wizard. Because he didn't, his trip just got a whole lot longer. And stranger.
😈 The Creature: The Donestre
The lion headed stranger who will eat you, sure, but also feel really bad about it.
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😈 The Creature: The Donestre
The lion headed stranger who will eat you, sure, but also feel really bad about it.
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June 4, 2025 • 65 mins
⛩️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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😈 **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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May 21, 2025 • 56 mins
🦊 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 s...
😈 The Creature: The Devs
I guess you have to worry about head trauma and TBI a lot less when you have s...
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May 7, 2025 • 58 mins
🏰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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😈 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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April 23, 2025 • 44 mins
🍼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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😈 The Creature: The Cornu
How do you torment sinners without getting your hands dirty? The cornu, that's how.
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April 9, 2025 • 57 mins
🐄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 ...
😈 The Creature: Coliunn Gun Cheaun
The worst, best headless friend you hopefully never ...
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March 26, 2025 • 57 mins
🍺Meet Cambrinus, things aren't going so well for him🍺
He's a peasant kid with a job that's going nowhere, a crush who doesn't love him back, and no one takes him seriously when he absolutely knocks it out of the park playing the viola. If only he knew he was destined to be legendary King of Beer.
😈 The Creature: The Cocoa
A two-foot-long sparkling cat sounds like a lot of fun. Until it's very much not....
😈 The Creature: The Cocoa
A two-foot-long sparkling cat sounds like a lot of fun. Until it's very much not....
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March 12, 2025 • 40 mins
🤑 The Monkey King and friends are making money and staying in fancy hotels🤑
What is this that you heard about them being monks? What? No. That's ridiculous. They don't know why you thought that. So weird. They are horse traders who trade horses while they pass through this city that murders monks. Wait NO DON'T TOUCH THEIR HATS.
😈 The Creature: The Cinnamologus
We meet the cinnamon bird, because w...
😈 The Creature: The Cinnamologus
We meet the cinnamon bird, because w...
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February 26, 2025 • 54 mins
⚔️The plight of the Viking celebrity poet⚔️
Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and none of what you actually say matters all that much...as long as you're famous.
😈 The creature: the cicada
It's not a creature at all. Just a normal bug...or maybe that's what Zeus wants you to think?
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😈 The creature: the cicada
It's not a creature at all. Just a normal bug...or maybe that's what Zeus wants you to think?
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February 12, 2025 • 54 mins
🐸Love means never having to say I'm sorry (I poisoned you)"🐸
...or something like that. This Valentine's Day there are three love stories from Japan. On the first, a man moves on after becoming a widower (kind of), on the second, two frogs fall out of love...with a place, and on the third, the whole world is in love with a geisha.
😈 The Creature: Maikubi (舞首)
Three heads that don't so much as danc...
😈 The Creature: Maikubi (舞首)
Three heads that don't so much as danc...
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January 29, 2025 • 40 mins
🐀It's Race Day🐀
Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their years: a race that's terrible for all involved.
😈 The Creature: Nian
Why you want to dress in red to avoid long, unpleasant runs on New Year's Day, though any run in January or February (or in general) is unpleasant.
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😈 The Creature: Nian
Why you want to dress in red to avoid long, unpleasant runs on New Year's Day, though any run in January or February (or in general) is unpleasant.
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January 15, 2025 • 59 mins
👸 Our princess is in another castle! 👸
Two stories from Ireland where it's unclear who the villain is...and how it might just be among the people we least suspect.
😈 The creature: le cheval Bayard
A horse who just wants to make you feel bad about your riding ability...and also destroy your marriage.
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😈 The creature: le cheval Bayard
A horse who just wants to make you feel bad about your riding ability...and also destroy your marriage.
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December 31, 2024 • 36 mins
🎉At a bad New Year's party?🎉
It has to be better than little Joe and Baptiste's New Years, in the frigid Canadian wilderness. But they're going to change that. By making a deal with the devil.
😈 The creature: The Yale
The Yale, or the Centicore, is a super goat who's super famous despite not deserving it at all.
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😈 The creature: The Yale
The Yale, or the Centicore, is a super goat who's super famous despite not deserving it at all.
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December 18, 2024 • 48 mins
🌲Trolls, zombies, and evil housecats🌲
It must be Christmas in the Nordic countries. Today, a young officer is stuck in the city after being in a brief coma. At least there are some tales to keep him company.
😈 The Creature: Frau Gauden
The creature this week wants to give you that dog you wanted for the holidays. The catch is that it can never leave. Also, it will attack you.
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😈 The Creature: Frau Gauden
The creature this week wants to give you that dog you wanted for the holidays. The catch is that it can never leave. Also, it will attack you.
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December 11, 2024 • 42 mins
🐵Monkey and Co. are really hoping this city is different🐵
I mean, it has to be, right? Not every city can be full of monsters...can it? We're back in the Journey to the West with Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.
😈 The Creature: Cacus
A half spider man that does whatever a spider can. Providing spiders breath file, steal cattle, and get killed by Hercules
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😈 The Creature: Cacus
A half spider man that does whatever a spider can. Providing spiders breath file, steal cattle, and get killed by Hercules
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December 4, 2024 • 49 mins
💀Hades is taking the long way home💀
After dropping Persephone off in the world of the humans, Hades makes the long walk back down to his palace at the heart of his realms, giving us a tour of the greek underworld and all the things that creep within.
😈 The Creature: Bwca
An elf-like creature that does not like bowls of pee.
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November 27, 2024 • 54 mins
🏰 Why maybe you should pass on dating that person with the dad who murders everyone trying to date them 🏰
The tale of Degarré is a story of knights, chivalry, violence, and grappling with what it means when the person you've idolized and sought your whole life...might just be the villain of the story.
😈 The Creature: Ninmenju (人面樹)
That tree that thinks you're HILARIOUS...until you bite into its f...
😈 The Creature: Ninmenju (人面樹)
That tree that thinks you're HILARIOUS...until you bite into its f...
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November 20, 2024 • 42 mins
🧙♂️How a Scientist Becomes a Wizard🧙♂️
Two stories from Denmark about people dealing with their neighbors in very different ways. One loves and accepts them. The other just wants to get away so he tears out his own heart.
😈 The Creature: Abumi-guchi (鐙口)
AKA Stirrup mouth. Your friend to the end. And beyond.
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😈 The Creature: Abumi-guchi (鐙口)
AKA Stirrup mouth. Your friend to the end. And beyond.
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