Jason Weiser and Carissa Weiser tell stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cult
There is someone that isn't happy that the family of Zeus and Hera is sitting on Olympus. Well, ther
Two stories of just terrible, terrible fathers from Greek mythology. The first is really only in the
The land of giants. Jotunheim. The realm of the monstrous "other" from Norse myth. Thorstein grew up
Maui. Trickster. Demigod. Sometimes-fish. Abandoned at birth but in the possession of great power, t
The Day of the Wolf. The Doom of the Gods. The end of all things. It has many names, but one word en
Werewolves are people that turn into wolves. Or they don't. Maybe they just wear a fancy wolf belt.
Clever Hans is clever. He knows the best way to store needles and knives and how to carry a goat in
The conclusion to the dwarf with the long beard, a story about a dwarf. And a long beard. And enteri
Today's story comes from Slavic folklore and it was so much fun. It's surprisingly complex and full
Threes are everywhere in folklore, and today we look at stories where they feature the most prominen
The "Tale of Tales" is a very famous, moderately deranged collection of folklore from 16th century I
We have to go deeper. Well, for Scheherazade to survive, she always has to have another level of s
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An episode with a story from Scandinavia about trolls. Not the internet kind. No, these are the less
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We're back in the cold, unforgiving north, at the very beginning of Odin's reign. We'll see him meet
Starting at the beginning of the universe and going to the beginning of the epic and mildly disturbi
The story of a dark (well, dark-ish. Actually, kind of not even that. You'll see.) prophecy, a kingd
The story of Atalanta is one of the woman who just couldn't be stopped...and of a world that had a b
