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Norse Mythology: The Old Man and the Stick
#434
Last Wednesday at 7:30 AM
🐐 Who knew packing so many epic Norse heroes into a single house could have such disastrous consequences?
Not Odin, that's for sure. There's trouble brewing in Valhalla, and there's only one man who knows how to solve it: Skíði, the smartest famous man of our world, Midgard. But, has the world of Midgard changed too much since Odin last looked in on it?
😈 The Creature: Lusca
If you see octopus hands feeling around your boat, you better not toss that empty plastic bottle into the ocean. Probably don't do that anyway, actually. Litterin...
Spanish folklore: Doña of the Dead
#433
04/22/2026
⛰️When the unthinkable happens, Doña must become something she doesn't even recognize to bring justice
But, once she travels so far from herself, can she find her way home? This is the story of Doña Josefa Ramirez y Marmolejo.
😈 The Creature: Sheepsquatch
Basically a Wampa from Star Wars that lives in West Virginia.
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Japanese folklore: Sword it Out
#432
04/08/2026
🍜Samurai Pirates, Stabby Sumo Wrestlers, and Punchable Oni
Are the consequences of Jiuyemon's actions.
We all make mistakes. Too many of the samurai Jiuyemon's mistakes involved killing people with a sword while drunk, though. While the heat dies down, he needs to start a new life in exile. As a toothpaste salesman.
😈 The Creature: Kappa
Famous for being cute and giving boat rides in Animal Crossing! Don't ask about what he used to get up to before he was a kawaii manga star, though! It definitely doesn't involve eating humans and having...
Turkish folklore: These Dreams
#431
03/25/2026
✨Cobbler Ahmet just wants to fix shoes✨
But his wife wants those sweet, sweet bath reservations, so it looks like he's going to go be the Chief Astrologer to the Sultan. The only problem(s)? He doesn't like astrology, doesn't know how to do it, and starts out by selling his astrology by the side of the highway.
That's actually the second story, because this week there are two stories of two Ahmets following dreams. On the first is junkman Ahmet, who has the same wonderful dream every night...except when it stops being wonderful, and...
Finnish folklore: Worn Out
#430
03/11/2026
✏️Osmo is a pretty solid sketch artist✏️
He’s not drawing a criminal, though. He’s drawing his sister, whose only crime is stealing the prince’s heart. And also maybe trying to escape the prison of the sea king, but that comes later.
😈 The Creature: The Jurua
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, there’s the jurua who is taking their family out to a nice dinner…of your flesh. Hope you’re wearing the right creeper.
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Slavic folklore: The Devilkin Made Me Do It
#429
02/25/2026
👞Goria the shoemaker has a bad boss👞
Is his boss the devil? Literally...well, no. Is the devil that Goria meets in a bar actually better than his boss? 100% yes.
😈 The Creature: Jack-in-Irons
A creature who made it a bad thing to walk around threatening people with a spiky club and wearing human heads. Thanks, Jack.
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Monkey King: The Pride
#428
02/11/2026
🐺Inside each of us there are two wolves. They are named 'Shifty' and 'Freaky'.🐺
Which one wins? Well it doesn't matter because they're both demons so maybe try to starve both of them out. Or spit in their faces and steal their name tags, like Sun Wukong does. No wrong answers because, in the world of the Journey to the West, anything goes.
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Norse Legends: Wither or Not
#427
01/28/2026
🧙♀️So, you think your stepmom might be a sorceress🧙♀️
Common problem. Well, common for fairy tales, at least. But, have you thought that she might not like you putting her in a box and deciding what she is before you even get to know her? It's something you might want to think about. Definitely because you shouldn't be prejudiced. Also because if she's really a sorceress do you really want to make her mad?
😈 The Creature: Ipupiara
A hairy, smelly merman who's just trying to keep up with the trends.
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1001 Nights: Djinning Up Some Trouble
#426
01/14/2026
🧞♂️Trying to meet the love of your life? Maybe ask for help from two genies trying to kill each other.🧞♂️
Even if you're not trying to meet the love of your life or, like the characters in today's story, actively trying to avoid meeting the love of your life because you really don't want to marry, you still might end up falling for someone anyway. And then maybe dying of a broken heart because that's apparently actually a thing.
😈 The Creature: Ebu Gogo
They will take your stuff and your children...and then ask the children how...
Flemish legends: A Night Out
#425
12/31/2025
🧌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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Irish legends: Out of Time
#424
12/17/2025
🦌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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Japanese folkore: The Illusionists
#423
12/03/2025
👹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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Scottish folklore: Witchful Thinking
#422
11/19/2025
🧙♂️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 see them. Why would you even ask. Oh, you didn't? Well, you still can't see them.
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Viking Legends: Famous
#421
11/05/2025
🔥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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Korean Grim Reaper: Saja Boys
#420
10/22/2025
⚰️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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Slavic folklore: Bad Heir Day
#419
10/08/2025
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 is serious about his job, and that's unfortunate because that job involves blood splatters and the end of the world.
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French stories: Our Son, Ourson, the Bear
#418
09/24/2025
🐻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 bad by tempting people into murdering...themselves?
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Guy of Warwick: Don't Be That Guy
#417
09/10/2025
🛡️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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Hans Christian Andersen: Humbugs
#416
08/27/2025
🪲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. They just look and act like them and have a very similar name but if you say they're elves hope you enjoy your VERY sick cow...
Aesop's Fables: Bray it Ain't So
#415
08/13/2025
🫏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...rain. He's not as cool as his friend, who has alcohol constantly flowing out of her udders.
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Monkey King: Ham-bushed
#414
07/30/2025
🐷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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European folklore: Justice
#413
07/16/2025
🔔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 than your fair share.
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Indian folklore: Dicey
#412
07/02/2025
🎲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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Celtic folklore: The Wake
#411
06/18/2025
⛵️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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Japanese folklore: Provincial
#410
06/04/2025
⛩️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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Reynard: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
#409
05/21/2025
🦊 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 seven heads.
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Knights of the Round Table: Hither and Thither
#408
05/07/2025
🏰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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West African folklore: Wiser
#407
04/23/2025
🍼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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Slavic folklore: Udder Nonsense
#406
04/09/2025
🐄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 had.
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European legends: Ale to the King
#405
03/26/2025
🍺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.
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Monkey King: Not Found
#404
03/12/2025
🤑 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?
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Norse sagas: Wormtongue
#403
02/26/2025
⚔️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?
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Japanese folklore: Misconceptions
#402
02/12/2025
🐸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.
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Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race
#401
01/29/2025
🐀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.
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Celtic folklore: The Baddies
#400
01/15/2025
👸 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.
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Canadian folklore: Wild Night
#399
12/31/2024
🎉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.
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Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter
#398
12/18/2024
🌲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.
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Monkey King: King of Hearts
#397
12/11/2024
🐵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
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Greek Myths: Hades, Too
#396
12/04/2024
💀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.
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Breton folklore: Darkest Knight
#395
11/27/2024
🏰 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.
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