Myths and Legends

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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October 8, 2025 โ€ข 47 mins

๐Ÿช‰Ivan fights wizards and monsters and Baba Yaga with a music streaming subscription๐Ÿช‰

What do you get when your daughters have been kidnapped by a sleezy cloud and your son not only spends all of his days jamming with his self-playing harp, but DOESN'T want to tear the heads off his friends? You get Tsar Wisehead, who apparently just figured out that parenting is hard.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ **The Creature: Garm

Garm i...
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๐ŸปOurson is a Beary Good Guy๐Ÿป

Sorry, I couldn't resist, but he is actually a good guy. He isn't a bear though. He just looks like one to people who have probably never seen a bear, because he's kind of just a very hairy kid. He's like that because his mom kicked a toad that wasn't a toad and the toad cursed him. Don't worry, it'll make sense (mostly).

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creatures: Ga-Gorib

A monster who does ba...
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September 10, 2025 โ€ข 68 mins

๐Ÿ›ก๏ธThis Guy?๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

This guy is Guy of Warwick, and he's your guy. But only if you need someone to be the best guy in the world at fighting and killing. It's just too bad Guy hates being that guy.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: Freybug and the Barguest
Two black dogs who might give you wounds that will never heal, or maybe just stand there awkwardly until you leave.

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August 27, 2025 โ€ข 38 mins

๐ŸชฒThey're not so different๐Ÿชฒ

One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants to fight God, the other wants to wear golden horse shoes. When it comes to being completely arrogant and insufferable, though, they have more in common than you might think. It's two fairy tales of pride and power from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: The Elle-folk

They're NOT elves....
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August 13, 2025 โ€ข 47 mins

๐ŸซOne little rent-a-donkey, one big journey๐Ÿซ

Actually he's a full-grown rental donkey but the journey is a big one because, when you're a poorly treated rental donkey and you have a chance to escape, you take it. Then, spend the rest of the time trying to get back to captivity because the world is dangerous and scary.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: Eikthymir

The giant stag from Norse myth that makes it rain...rai...
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July 30, 2025 โ€ข 42 mins

๐ŸทSun Wukong is a bad friend๐Ÿท

But, to be fair, he never said he and Pigsy were friends...because you don't send your friends to dinner parties where everyone is trying to murder you.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: Each Tened
A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire.

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July 16, 2025 โ€ข 49 mins

๐Ÿ””Ring the bell for justice๐Ÿ””

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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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 โ€ข 55 mins

๐ŸŽฒLosing your kingdom in a game of dice๐ŸŽฒ

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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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 โ€ข 57 mins

โ›ต๏ธGet lost at sea with Maelduinโ›ต๏ธ

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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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 โ€ข 59 mins

โ›ฉ๏ธStories from the Japanese countrysideโ›ฉ๏ธ

Five interconnected stories of purpose, meaning, justice, talking animals, the boss falling off a cliff, mushrooms, and travel hampers.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ **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 โ€ข 50 mins

๐ŸฆŠ Reynard the fox hates meetings, too ๐ŸฆŠ

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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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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๐ŸฐWhen 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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: The Kaichigo

All those games you haven't played are lonely...and also maybe messing with your stuff in the basement.ย 

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April 23, 2025 โ€ข 44 mins

๐ŸผHave a budding tyrant? You need a snarky talking baby๐Ÿผ

Yenga Naa is wiser than the chief. How do you know? Well, he named himself that...the moment he was born.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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 โ€ข 57 mins

๐Ÿ„Baba Yaga, Dragons, Giant Talking Pigs๐Ÿ„

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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: Coliunn Gun Cheaun
The worst, best headless friend you hopefully never ...
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March 26, 2025 โ€ข 57 mins

๐ŸบMeet Cambrinus, things aren't going so well for him๐Ÿบ

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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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 โ€ข 40 mins

๐Ÿค‘ The Monkey King and friends are making money and staying in fancy hotels๐Ÿค‘

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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: The Cinnamologus

We meet the cinnamon bird, because w...
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February 26, 2025 โ€ข 54 mins

โš”๏ธThe plight of the Viking celebrity poetโš”๏ธ

Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and none of what you actually say matters all that much...as long as you're famous.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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 โ€ข 54 mins

๐ŸธLove means never having to say I'm sorry (I poisoned you)"๐Ÿธ

...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.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ The Creature: Maikubi (่ˆž้ฆ–)

Three heads that don't so much as danc...
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January 29, 2025 โ€ข 40 mins

๐Ÿ€It's Race Day๐Ÿ€

Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their years: a race that's terrible for all involved.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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 โ€ข 59 mins

๐Ÿ‘ธ Our princess is in another castle! ๐Ÿ‘ธ

Two stories from Ireland where it's unclear who the villain is...and how it might just be among the people we least suspect.

๐Ÿ˜ˆ 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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