Myths and Legends

🍺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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos ⚠️ Disclaimer https://myths.link/405 --- 📢 Sponsors BetterHelp Build your support system, with Betterhelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. FastGrowingTrees listeners to our show get 15% their first purchase when using the code LEGENDS at checkout. at https://fastgrowingtrees.com Smalls Give your cat the food they deserve. Head to https://Smalls.com and use promo code LEGENDS at checkout for 50% off your first order PLUS free shipping! --- 🎵 Music Credits "Elmore Heights""The Furthering""Country Butter""Deacon Jeanie"

🤑 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 who doesn't love their cinnamon sticks covered in bird poop and lead? --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos 🦴 Item this week Human femur? https://www.jonsbones.com/shop-by-category?category=long-bones --- 📢 Sponsors FastGrowingTrees listeners to our show get 15% their first purchase when using the code LEGENDS at checkout. at https://fastgrowingtrees.com Link to picture of our Korean lilac tree looking hopefully at the yard in which it will be planted: https://myths.link/404 Quince Give yourself the luxury you deserve, with Quince. Go to https://Quince.com/legends for 365-day returns and free shipping on your order. BetterHelp Build your support system, with Betterhelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Awaiting an Arrival""Soda Baron"

⚔️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? --- https://myths.link/403https://www.mythpodcast.com/membershiphttps://www.sagadb.org/gunnlaugs_saga_ormstungu.en 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors Mint Mobile: Shop plans at https://mintmobile.com/legends! Outschool: If you want to try Outschool, you can now get up to $20 off your child's’ first class or tutoring session for a limited time. Go to https://outschool.com and use code LEGENDS at checkout! HomeChef: For a limited time, HomeChef is offering my listeners 18 Free Meals PLUS Free Dessert for Life and free shipping on your first box! Go to https://homechef.com/legends --- 🎵 Music Credits "An Unknown Visitor""Black Ballots""Heath""Quiet Sill""Broken Rock Lament"

🐸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 dance as they do bite each other and sink ships. --- Links Disclaimer: https://myths.link/402 42 Rubber Chickens: https://myths.link/42rubberchickens 🎧 Connect with us! DiscordClick here to join!Instagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegends 📖 Sources Story 1https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.18748.20Story 2:https://www.japanpowered.com/folklore-and-urban-legends/two-frogs-japanese-folktaleStory 3:https://www.worldoftales.com/Asian_folktales/Japanese_folktale_63.html#gsc.tab=0 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors BetterHelp This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Discover your relationship green flags, with Betterhelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS to get 10% off your first month. Quince Give yourself the luxury you deserve with Quince! Go to https://Quince.com/legends for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Then Disappeared to the Ground""Bogs Reverie""Jat Poure"

🐀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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors HomeChef For a limited time, HomeChef is offering my listeners 18 Free Meals PLUS Free Dessert for Life and free shipping on your first box! Go to https://homechef.com/legends BetterHelp This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. Mint Mobile Switch to Mint and new customers can get half off an Unlimited plan until February 2. Go to https://mintmobile.com/legends --- 🎵 Music Credits "Hrse Hrse""The Sermon"

👸 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. --- Links https://www.mythpodcast.com/membershiphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ajb3Uva42whttps://www.reddit.com/r/meat/comments/qh2lsi/i_got_roasted_over_at_rfood_for_eating_smoked/ 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 🎵 Music Credits "Intrinsic Pace""Gene's Waltz"

🎉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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📖 Sources https://archive.org/details/lachassegalerieo00beau/page/n13/mode/2uphttps://archive.org/details/cu31924028870686 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 🎵 Music Credits "Homin Brer""Golden Grass""Bedroll"

🌲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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Find comfort this December, with BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS today to get 10% off your first month. GhostBed Your best night’s sleep is just a legend away! Head to https://GhostBed.com/legends and use code LEGENDS for 50% off sitewide.

🐵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 --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors Quince Gift luxury this holiday season, without the luxury price tag. Go to https://Quince.com/legends for 365-day returns and free shipping on your order. FirstLeaf Treat yourself with wines from Firstleaf. Go to https://TryFirstleaf.com/LEGENDS to sign up, and you’ll get your first SIX handpicked bottles for just $44.95.

💀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. --- Links 🛒 Shop is open again! Check out the merch at https://shop.nextpod.com 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 📖 Sources Metamorphoseshttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/21765/21765-h/21765-h.htmHesiod's workshttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348The Library of Apollodorushttps://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.htmlThe Extant Odes of Pindarhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10717The Iliadhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130The Odysseyhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727The Greek Mythshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310786/the-greek-myths-by-robert-graves/ 🎮️ Greek Punishment Games Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishmenthttps://pippinbarr.com/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment/ 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Find comfort this December by going to https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS to get 10% off your first month. PrettyLitter Pretty Litter is amazing for our picky cats! Go to https://PrettyLitter.com/legends to save 20% on your first order and get a free cat toy. Terms and conditions apply. See site for details. Dinnerly Give the gift of yummy, affordable food with Dinnerly. Head to https://Dinnerly.com/offer/LEGENDS and use code LEGENDS for up to 27 FREE meals. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Contemps"

🏰 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 face fruit. --- Links ⚠️ Disclaimer https://myths.link/395 🎧 Connect with us! Discordhttps://myths.link/discordInstagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 📖 Sources Sir Degarréhttps://myths.link/degare 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors Uncommon Goods Spark something uncommon this holiday with just the right gift from Uncommon Goods. Head to https://UncommonGoods.com/LEGENDS for 15% off your next gift! BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Let the gratitude flow, with BetterHelp. Go to https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS to get 10% off your first month. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Death of the Dragon""March of the Dragons""Dream Roads Forever""Town Market"

🧙‍♂️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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! DiscordClick here to join!Instagramhttps://instagram.com/mythsandlegendsBlueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 📖 Sources Toller's Neighborshttps://www.wisdomlib.org/scandinavia/book/a-collection-of-popular-tales-from-the-norse-and-north-german/d/doc64489.htmlThe Man Without A Hearthttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danish_Fairy_and_Folk_Tales/The_Man_without_a_Heart 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors Shopify Upgrade your selling today with Shopify. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/legends (all lowercase). BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Let the gratitude flow, with BetterHelp. Go to https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS to get 10% off your first month. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Upper Registers""Bergeron"

📝A Cavern Full of Snakes is apparently a Great Classroom📝 Hasib is still stuck in the room with the Queen of Serpents and twelve thousand snakes, and the QoS a story to tell. Two of them, actually. Long ones. Two years' worth of stories of guys lost in the world...and two different ways of dealing with mistakes and loss. Basically, she's being a very tricky teacher. --- 😈 The Creature: Wokulo Tiny invisible hairy naked men could be watching you right now. And they're really good at wrestling. --- Links 🎧 Join the Community! Discord: Click here to join! 📖 Source One Thousand and One Nights Vol. 5: https://myths.link/hasib ⚠️ Content Warning Show post: https://myths.link/393 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors Dinnerly This holiday season, give the gift of great, affordable food with Dinnerly at https://Dinnerly.com/offer/LEGENDS and use code LEGENDS for up to 27 free meals!. Uncommon Goods Find the perfect gift at Uncommon Goods! Head to https://UncommonGoods.com/LEGENDS for 15% off your next gift. Firstleaf Get cozy and pop open that perfect bottle of wine from Firstleaf! Go to https://TryFirstLeaf.com/LEGENDS to sign up and you’ll get your first SIX handpicked bottles for just $44.95. --- 🎵 Music Credits "The Gran Dias""Don Germaine""Convex Marsa""Brer Sprine"

🐍Hasib wants to avoid a freak library accident🐍 So he will avoid learning anything. Ever. This week, it's the story of Hasib and the Queen of Serpents, the snake woman with a cistern full of honey...and a secret. --- 😈 The Creature: Chameleon Bad news travels fast. Faster than a chameleon, at least. --- Links 🎧 Join the Community! Discord: Click here to join! 📖 Source The Queen of the Serpents: https://myths.link/hasib --- 📢 Sponsors Pretty Litter Pretty Litter’s amazing! You have to try it. Save 20% on your first order and get a free cat toy with code legends at https://PrettyLitter.com/legends. Quince Get cozy in Quince’s high-quality wardrobe essentials by going to https://Quince.com/legends today. BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Let the gratitude flow! Check out https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS today to get 10% off your first month. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Rest (Instrumental)""Telmain Ares""Kalsted""Hanging Rock"

👹If you can't be with the one you love...👹 Love the one you're with? What? No. Kill everyone in your way until you get what you want. This week: a ghost story from Japan about what happens when a ronin, a masterless samurai, has nothing to lose in a quest to regain what he lost, and the people unfortunate enough to be in his way. --- 😈 The Creature: Waterlord The bargain bin version of the Hydra...just don't sacrifice your kids to it. --- 🎧 Join the Community! Discord: Click here to join! --- ⚠️ Disclaimer Showpost: https://myths.link/391 --- 📢 Sponsor Uncommon Goods Spark something uncommon this holiday season with incredible, hand-picked gifts by going to https://UncommonGoods.com/LEGENDS and get 15% off your next gift. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Winter in Black""Minister Creek"

🦢 Let them eat sand 🦢 A story from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen about a witch who wants to take over the kingdom and the twelve kids who stand in her way. Just kidding, they have no idea what's going on. --- 😈 The Creature: Walek You no longer need to leave your meat out forever on a sun-warmed stone. You know why? The Walek, that's why. --- Links 🎧 Join the Community! Discord: Click here to join! 📖 Source The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen: https://myths.link/swans --- 📢 Sponsors Quince Get cozy in Quince’s high quality wardrobe essentials at https://Quince.com/legends plus get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Take off the mask, with BetterHelp. Head over to https://BetterHelp.com/myths today to get 10% off your first month. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Galoshes""Magpie""Building Time Lapse"

🖤 The story of why you don't menace crows. Even if the people you're doing it to try to mess with are extremely annoying and lovey-dovey. Or, if you're single and looking, here's why you should definitely throw some rocks at some crows. It might just lead to you meeting the love of your life... sixteen years later, after several trips through an active war zone. This is the unlikely love story of Pang Noo and Uhn Hah. Disclaimer: https://myths.link/389 😈 The Creature: Vu-Murt He's not a convenience store. He's not a generic superhero. He's that naked man combing his hair by the lake. 🎧 Join the Community! Discord: Click here to join! --- 📢 Sponsors Firstleaf Sign up at Firstleaf, and get your first SIX handpicked bottles for just $44.95. Mint Mobile Get a 3-month premium wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month! Visit Mint Mobile. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Stephi""Negentropy""The Bluff Trail (Instrumental)""Und Galaxe"

The story of King Mighty Mikko, a young man who isn't a king or mighty, but he is Mikko, and maybe that's all he needs. Oh...and a very clever fox conman. The creature is Vishap, who lives at the top of a mountain and just wants to give you cash and prizes to not be covered in poison blood --- Discord: https://myths.link/discord Source: https://myths.link/mightymikko --- BetterHelp: This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/myths today to get 10% off your first month. --- "Flatlands 4th" by Blue Dot Sessions "Slate Tracker" by Blue Dot Sessions "Still Nite" by Blue Dot Sessions "Western Tanager" by Chad Crouch "Mallard" by Chad Crouch

The conclusion of the story of Bova, where last episode we saw him ride out to battle alone against an army...but now he faces more danger delivering a letter and dressing up like an elderly man. The creature is Sunakake-Baba, a little old lady who will throw sand in your face...for justice? Source: https://myths.link/bova Post: https://myths.link/387 Come join us on Discord! https://myths.link/discord --- Sponsor: BetterHelp: This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/myths today to get 10% off your first month. --- Music: "Breeze Bloc" by Blue Dot Sessions "Steps" by Chad Crouch "Rope Swing" by Chad Crouch "Two Boys and a Girl" by Chad Crouch "Cicle Veroni" by Blue Dot Sessions

The story of Bova, a hero from Slavic folklore, the beautiful beautiful man who is on a lifelong quest for vengeance. Against his mom. The creature is the Vila (or Vile), a ghost with unfinished business...of dancing naked in the town square. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Discord: https://myths.links/discord Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership Anti-soggy cereal bowl: https://myths.link/antisoggy --- Sponsors: Go to https://homechef.com/legends for 18 Free Meals and Free Dessert for Life! Go to https://Quince.com/legends for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns --- "Miniatures" by Blue Dot Sessions "High Water Channel (Instrumental)" by Chad Crouch "Pretty Melody" by Chad Crouch "Bambi" by Chad Crouch