Jasmine Elmer

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594 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

Jasmine Elmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · The Most Badass Dragon Slayers in History · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, yeah, they're using that same kind of like symbolism there.

And then a thousand years later, oh, they're using it again.

But this time it's Christian rather than pagan.

Or this time it's, you know, this fear about women, this fear about the devil, this fear about, you know, another thing in the ancient world.

So it's kind of what I love about it.

Luckily, that's quite unique to her, so that's good.

So I have three others in my book.

So there are a few other dragon tales, but you'll love this as a historian.

The source material was too vague or too kind of like just a little bit.

I was like, I don't really feel comfortable looking into that story.

It wasn't enough there for me.

So I picked these other three figures.

So there's Medea from ancient Greece, who I have in the book.

And her story is pretty kick-ass.

But then you have Takoyo, who is a Japanese... I made her a young samurai, a female samurai, on a musha, they're called, which actually existed, female samurai.

So she has her tale of the dragon.

And then you also have Thakane, who is a young woman from the Basotho tribe in Lesotho, South Africa.

So I wanted to get a nice, like...

Big global tale, big mixture of these different women from different cultures for us to look at.

Who's Thakani?

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