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.
Episodes
December 31, 2025 • 35 mins
🧌We've all been there.🧌
You spend a night out with friends, hanging out in the dark forest, crashing an ogre party and making dog friends. The only problem? You were out past curfew. Oh, and you came in through the chimney and absolutely trashed your parents' house.
😈 The Creature: Jud
The personification (or horse-onification) of evil who wants to talk to you about your drinking.
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😈 The Creature: Jud
The personification (or horse-onification) of evil who wants to talk to you about your drinking.
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December 17, 2025 • 56 mins
🦌Oh, deer.🦌
No, really, the love of your life might just be a deer...or, well, a human in the form of a deer. Just ask your two cousins who are also your best friends and your literal dogs. They'll lead you right to her. This is the story of Oisín in Tir na nÓg from Irish folklore.
😈 The Creature: Chaneque
A little shriveled man with the face of a baby who might eat your brain and/or soul
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😈 The Creature: Chaneque
A little shriveled man with the face of a baby who might eat your brain and/or soul
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December 3, 2025 • 53 mins
👹Something is lurking in the forest temple👹
While the country outside is rocked by the changes in the world, a village grapples with the idea that a monster of a land that's nearly gone still lurks in their midst.
😈 The Creature: Boraro
Watch out or he'll turn you into a human Capri-Sun
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😈 The Creature: Boraro
Watch out or he'll turn you into a human Capri-Sun
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November 19, 2025 • 56 mins
🧙♂️So you've decided to steal from a witch or wizard🧙♀️
Are you sure about that? If you are, you might want to think about what you're going to do more than the characters in today's stories from Scotland and Norway. Especially if, like them, you end up stealing way more than you bargained for.
😈 The Creature: ewaipanoma
The headless friends of all the children in South America. No you can't se...
😈 The Creature: ewaipanoma
The headless friends of all the children in South America. No you can't se...
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November 5, 2025 • 51 mins
🔥All the Viking warriors' hearts burn with love for Nítíða🔥
And also the rest of them is on fire as well because that's what happens when you try to kidnap a maiden-king.
😈 The Creatures: Henkie
The henkie is dancing with itself. When it's not watching you sleep, that is.
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😈 The Creatures: Henkie
The henkie is dancing with itself. When it's not watching you sleep, that is.
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October 22, 2025 • 55 mins
⚰️It's Halloween⚰️
What do you do when death comes for you? Well, the characters in today's stories have a lot of ideas, and they're surprisingly successful. The problem? Death works on a much, much longer timeline.
😈 The Creatures: Bulgasari
Why you don't feed your rice monster metal needles. Unlike most pets, it will be fine. You'll be in trouble, though.
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😈 The Creatures: Bulgasari
Why you don't feed your rice monster metal needles. Unlike most pets, it will be fine. You'll be in trouble, though.
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October 8, 2025 • 41 mins
Ivan fights wizards and monsters and Baba Yaga with a music streaming subscription
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.
😈 **The Creature: Garm
Garm i...
😈 **The Creature: Garm
Garm i...
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September 24, 2025 • 47 mins
🐻Ourson is a Beary Good Guy🐻
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).
😈 The Creatures: Ga-Gorib
A monster who does ba...
😈 The Creatures: Ga-Gorib
A monster who does ba...
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September 10, 2025 • 63 mins
🛡️This Guy?🛡️
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.
😈 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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😈 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 • 38 mins
🪲They're not so different🪲
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.
😈 The Creature: The Elle-folk
They're NOT elves....
😈 The Creature: The Elle-folk
They're NOT elves....
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August 13, 2025 • 47 mins
🫏One little rent-a-donkey, one big journey🫏
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.
😈 The Creature: Eikthymir
The giant stag from Norse myth that makes it rain...rai...
😈 The Creature: Eikthymir
The giant stag from Norse myth that makes it rain...rai...
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July 30, 2025 • 42 mins
🐷Sun Wukong is a bad friend🐷
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.
😈 The Creature: Each Tened
A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire.
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😈 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 • 49 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 • 55 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 • 57 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 • 59 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 • 50 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 • 52 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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