423: Japanese folkore: The Illusionists
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
👹Something is lurking in the forest temple👹 While the country outside is rocked by the changes...
422: Scottish folklore: Witchful Thinking
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🧙♂️So you've decided to steal from a witch or wizard🧙♀️ Are you sure about that?...
421: Viking Legends: Famous
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🔥All the Viking warriors' hearts burn with love for Nítíða🔥 And also the rest of them is on...
420: Korean Grim Reaper: Saja Boys
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚰️It's Halloween⚰️ What do you do when death comes for you? Well, the characters in today's ...
419: Slavic folklore: Bad Heir Day
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ivan fights wizards and monsters and Baba Yaga with a music streaming subscription What do y...
418: French stories: Our Son, Ourson, the Bear
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🐻Ourson is a Beary Good Guy🐻 Sorry, I couldn't resist, but he is actually a good guy. He isn't...
417: Guy of Warwick: Don't Be That Guy
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🛡️This Guy?🛡️ This guy is Guy of Warwick, and he's your guy. But only if you need someone ...
416: Hans Christian Andersen: Humbugs
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🪲They're not so different🪲 One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants ...
415: Aesop's Fables: Bray it Ain't So
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🫏One little rent-a-donkey, one big journey🫏 Actually he's a full-grown rental donkey but the j...
414: Monkey King: Ham-bushed
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🐷Sun Wukong is a bad friend🐷 But, to be fair, he never said he and Pigsy were friends...becaus...
413: European folklore: Justice
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🔔Ring the bell for justice🔔 Want justice? Ring the bell. Doesn't matter if you're a horse or a...
412: Indian folklore: Dicey
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎲Losing your kingdom in a game of dice🎲 The story of Nala and Damayanti is a tale of love, los...
411: Celtic folklore: The Wake
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⛵️Get lost at sea with Maelduin⛵️ All Maelduin wants to do is avenge his father's murder...w...
410: Japanese folklore: Provincial
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⛩️Stories from the Japanese countryside⛩️ Five interconnected stories of purpose, meaning, j...
409: Reynard: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🦊 Reynard the fox hates meetings, too 🦊 Especially because at most of the meetings he's invite...
408: Knights of the Round Table: Hither and Thither
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🏰When a knight says he'll be right back, he means it Unless he dies. Or gets captured. Or just fo...
407: West African folklore: Wiser
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🍼Have a budding tyrant? You need a snarky talking baby🍼 Yenga Naa is wiser than the chief. Ho...
406: Slavic folklore: Udder Nonsense
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🐄Baba Yaga, Dragons, Giant Talking Pigs🐄 We'll see what happens when a king who wants one son ...
405: European legends: Ale to the King
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🍺Meet Cambrinus, things aren't going so well for him🍺 He's a peasant kid with a job that's goi...
404: Monkey King: Not Found
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🤑 The Monkey King and friends are making money and staying in fancy hotels🤑 What is this that ...
403: Norse sagas: Wormtongue
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚔️The plight of the Viking celebrity poet⚔️ Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, ...
402: Japanese folklore: Misconceptions
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🐸Love means never having to say I'm sorry (I poisoned you)"🐸 ...or something like that. This V...
401: Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🐀It's Race Day🐀 Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their ye...
400: Celtic folklore: The Baddies
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
👸 Our princess is in another castle! 👸 Two stories from Ireland where it's unclear who the vil...
399: Canadian folklore: Wild Night
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🎉At a bad New Year's party?🎉 It has to be better than little Joe and Baptiste's New Years, in ...
398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🌲Trolls, zombies, and evil housecats🌲 It must be Christmas in the Nordic countries. Today, a y...
397: Monkey King: King of Hearts
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🐵Monkey and Co. are really hoping this city is different🐵 I mean, it has to be, right? Not eve...
396: Greek Myths: Hades, Too
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
💀Hades is taking the long way home💀 After dropping Persephone off in the world of the humans, ...
395: Breton folklore: Darkest Knight
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🏰 Why maybe you should pass on dating that person with the dad who murders everyone trying to dat...
394: Danish folklore: Heartless
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🧙♂️How a Scientist Becomes a Wizard🧙♂️ Two stories from Denmark about people dea...
393: 1001 Nights: Let it Be(ak) (part 2 of 2)
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
📝A Cavern Full of Snakes is apparently a Great Classroom📝 Hasib is still stuck in the room wit...
392: 1001 Nights: The Unthinkable (part 1 of 2)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🐍Hasib wants to avoid a freak library accident🐍 So he will avoid learning anything. Ever. This...
391: Japanese Horror: Handsome Bad Man
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
👹If you can't be with the one you love...👹 Love the one you're with? What? No. Kill everyone i...
390: Hans Christian Andersen: Swan Song
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🦢 Let them eat sand 🦢 A story from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen about a witch who wan...
389: Korean folklore: Star-crossed
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
🖤 The story of why you don't menace crows. Even if the people you're doing it to try to mess with...
388: Finnish folklore: Uh oh, Better Get Mikko!
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of King Mighty Mikko, a young man who isn't a king or mighty, but he is Mikko, and maybe t...
387: Slavic Folklore: Kind of Forgot About Vengeance (part 2 of 2)
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The conclusion of the story of Bova, where last episode we saw him ride out to battle alone against ...
386: Slavic Folklore: Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-looking (part 1 of 2)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Bova, a hero from Slavic folklore, the beautiful beautiful man who is on a lifelong que...
385: Aesop's Fables: On the Farm
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More fables from Aesop about life on the farm and how, if someone stops by wearing your friend's ski...
384: Turkish folklore: The Silent Princess
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the silent princess and the prince who definitely has been cursed by that strange woman...
383: Monkey King: Food Fight (part 2 of 2)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is dead. For real. He was eaten by a lion and is gone for good because ...
382: Sun Wukong: A Good Death (part 1 of 2)
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're back in the story of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King and the Journey to the West, where Monkey goe...
381: Japanese folklore: Lend Me Your Ears
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from Japan about the stories we tell one another. On the first, it's a not-so-famous mus...
380: British Legends: I Loathe that for You
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the laidly worm is all about the costs and benefits of kissing dragons on the mouth. T...
379: Norse Sagas: Forsaken (part 2 of 2)
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We finish up the story of Bard with that of his son, Gest, which includes bloody Christmas parties, ...
378: Norse Sagas: Snowfell (part 1 of 2)
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first part of the story of Bard, a medieval Icelandic dad who goes full Batman. The creature is...
377: 1001 Nights: Science and Geometry
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A story from "One Thousand and One Nights" about three wondrous gifts: a clock, a security system, a...
376: Danish folklore: Sweet Pea
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three stories from Denmark about learning from your mistakes. Or not learning, and donating six full...
375: Monkey King: The Eyes Have It
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're back in the story of the Monkey King and the Journey to the West where maybe this monastery is...
374: European Fairy Tales: Mermaider (part 2 of 2)
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Undine the water elemental has a soul. And an evil uncle. And a friend who is in love with her husba...
373: European Fairy Tales: The Elements (part 1 of 2)
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, is a direct precursor to Hans Christian Ander...
372: Greek Myths: Things as they Are
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Demeter from Greek mythology is one of finding her place in the world. A world run by h...
371: Flemish folklore: Stuck
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from Flanders (the region of Belgium, not Homer Simpson's annoyingly nice neighbor) abou...
370: Aesop's Fables: State of Nature
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's fable time on Myths and Legends...despite fables being neither myths nor legends... They're fun...
369: Japanese folklore: Pilgrims
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from Japan. On the first, a former samurai's wife is up to something and he's going to f...
368: Indian Fairy Tales: Eye Love You
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When your seven spouses all have the same dream on the same night and ask you not to do the thing th...
367: Irish folklore: Daft Monk
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The madcap story of what happens when a monk decides he doesn't want to be a monk anymore. He wants ...
366: Monkey King: Roadblock
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the Journey to the West and Monkey has a fan club, the Tang Monk teaches an impromptu class,...
365: Korean folklore: Goblin
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories of goblins (도깨비) from Korean folklore and how, if they stop by, you'll want to hav...
364: English folklore: Of Mice and Men...and Frogs...and Birds
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When your parents get you three tiny men in a golden box as a going away present. The creature is t...
363: Slavic Folklore: One High Five Man
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Yaroslav is one of growing up and figuring out who you are...so you can stop accidental...
362: Chinese folklore: Broken
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from Chinese folklore about broken things. A broken pot, a broken future, and how things...
361: English folklore: In a Pickle (jar)
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from English folklore about perspective, and how you can't get something for nothing, bu...
360: Leprechauns: Lucky
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The saga of Fergus mac Léti is, apparently, the first time leprechauns make their appearance in fol...
359: Celtic Folklore: A Berry Good Day...for Murder?
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Munachar and Manachar are two friends out for a fun day of berry picking, but when one commits the o...
358: Monkey King: Winded
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the Journey to the West where Monkey and the gang are actually having an easy time of it and...
357: Icelandic Folklore: Dog Days
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lost prince, a magic TARDIS barrel, and a talking dog take us to Jötunheim and back in the story ...
356: 1001 Nights: Nifty Fifty
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A story from 1001 Nights about how to get rid of that annoying babysitter and what to do if your hus...
355: Greek/Roman myth: There's Something About Ares
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The stories of the creation from Roman/Greek mythology, the first werewolf, and Pygmalion, and also ...
354: Japanese folklore: Cursed
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories about finding people who like you for you. Not because you wear a rice bowl on your head...
353: Irish folklore: Beggars Belief
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a storyteller who can't think of a story to tell, and how a stranger solves that proble...
352: French folklore: The Darling Formerly Known as Prince
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you ensure your children grow up to be good people? You work with a fairy to design jewelry t...
351: Dragons: Alternate History
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mother and son are surviving at the end of the world, while monsters prowl the wasteland all aroun...
350: Korean folklore: Ghosts and Goblins
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three(ish) stories from the Korean peninsula about ghosts and goblins. Kind of. Some are actual ghos...
349: Monkey King: My Own Worst Enemy
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back in the stories of the Monkey King on the Journey to the West and we'll see that not every...
348: World Folklore: Untitled Goose Episode
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two myths and a lie! Two stories this week are tales from world folklore. One is a tale created by u...
347: Viking Legends: Fool Me Once
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Ketil Trout is about growing up and learning to be your own person. It's a coming-of-ag...
346: Athena: Friends in Need
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tales of everyone's favorite Olympian in charge of warfare, wisdom (& crafts!): Athena. Well, ev...
345: Welsh legends: Fetch Quest
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Culhwch and Olwen is that of a thousand quests and why it's probably ok to name your ba...
344: Armenian folklore: Giants, Giants Everywhere
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Mirza, from Armenian folklore, and why it pays to be a heavy sleeper. Also, if you find...
343: British Legends: Mr. Nice Knight
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A knight learns that generosity for those in need is good. Generosity to the point where you're in a...
342: Japanese folklore: Lord Long Legs
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lord Long Legs is a spider daimyo with ruthless mantis samurai. Sazaye has an impenetrable shell tha...
341: Greek Mythology: The Huntress
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you mix chastity, violence, and absolutely zero private baths? The history of the ...
340: Halloween: The Night that the Skeletons Came to Life
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Halloween story about the specter bridegroom. A bridegroom. Who's also a specter...and the bride w...
339: Norse Legends, Part 2: Fjord of the Rings
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Frithiof and Ingeborg is rife with evil trolls, good trolls, sea witches, land witches,...
338: Norse Legends, Part 1: Mr. Viking, the Viking
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Viking is a Viking. His dad was either not very creative when it came to naming him, or had a very s...
337: Greek Mythology: The Oracle
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the god of healing, Apollo sure does a lot of the exact opposite. Born to a mother on the run fr...
336: Monkey King: The Golden Cicada Bachelor
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Xuanzang, the monk leading the Monkey King, Pigsy, and Sandy on their journey to the west doesn't wa...
335: Indian folklore: Got Your Nose
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from Indian folklore where we learn that you should always know your exact weight in man...
334: Arabian folklore, part 2: The Enemy of my Enemy is my Enemy
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Fatima is a long one with many twists and turns. There are genies, evil wizards, massiv...
333: Arabian folklore, part 1: Resolve
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The epic story of Fatima, Dhat Al-Himma, the warrior woman, princess, mystic begins with the misadve...
332: Japanese folklore: Frog and Slug are Friends
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Slug, frog, snake, shoot! You've heard of rock, paper, scissors, but have you heard of slug, frog,...
331: English Folklore: Bad Habits
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from English folklore about the secrets we keep. The first is the story of the Monk of L...
330: Jewish Folklore: The Gilded Cage
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two stories from Yiddish folklore of taking a chance, making a change, going for a ride on a giant b...
329: Danish Folklore: Out of the Box
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if you could have anything you could imagine, but it would cost you everything you...
328: Monkey King: Bullish
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back in the story of the Monkey King with the Journey to the West, and we'll see Sun Wukong fi...
327-French Fairy Tales: Sister, Sister
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Finette Cendron is like a greatest hits of fairy tales. A tale of betrayal, sisters, og...
326-1001 Nights: Enough
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three brothers. One cousin...who they want to marry. It starts in a weird place this week. Three bro...
325-Greek Myths: The Power of Love
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aphrodite is looking for love in all the wrong places. It's the story of where she came from, her si...
324-Samurai Legends: Violent Ends
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two young men: a wildman determined to collect 1000 swords from defeated samurai, and a displaced so...