Myths and Legends

When your parents get you three tiny men in a golden box as a going away present.

The creature is the Neugle, who will drown you but feel super bad about it.

AI Bird feeder that you probably shouldn't buy: https://myths.link/birdfeeder

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The story of Yaroslav is one of growing up and figuring out who you are...so you can stop accidentally killing people with your deadly high-fives.

The creature is the Pombrero, a sleazy, muscly little hobbit who might already be in your house.

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Two stories from Chinese folklore about broken things. A broken pot, a broken future, and how things can come together to heal. And why you shouldn't go to work drunk or else you might have to arrest a tiger.

The creature is the tooth tyrant, the Odontotyrannos, and it's not an angry dentist.

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Uncle Jim's Worm Farm: https://myths.link/liftinjimmy

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Two stories from English folklore about perspective, and how you can't get something for nothing, but you can absolutely get nothing for something.

The creature is an outlandish, bizarre, and strange creature known as an "ostrich."

Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar: https://myths.link/vinegar
The Bogey Beast: https://myths.link/bogeysonyourtail
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The saga of Fergus mac Léti is, apparently, the first time leprechauns make their appearance in folklore. It's also the first time leprechauns try to kill a guy, get stuck in porridge, and offer some magical menswear.

The creature this time is the Oyaleroweck, who's thriving in the absence of knights in Canada.

We actually merged two stories of Fergus. Here's one translation of the overarching narrative: https://www.ucd.ie/tlh/trans/dab.eriu.16.001.t.text.html

Here's the inset one with King Iubdan: https://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/fergusmacleide.html

Munachar and Manachar are two friends out for a fun day of berry picking, but when one commits the only unforgivable sin of hogging all the berries, the only response is swift, murder-y justice. Time to recruit some accomplices

The creature is the nain, and it will help you know if you're making terrible life choices (and also encourage you to learn a foreign language!)

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Munachar and Manachar: https://myths.link/berrymurder
Not the Breman town musicians but kind of: https://myths.link/notbreman
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Back in the Journey to the West where Monkey and the gang are actually having an easy time of it and WHY IS IT SO HOT?

The creature is Muirbech who is not a sea bee, and while it should get in trouble for false advertising it is already in jail until Judgement Day?

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A lost prince, a magic TARDIS barrel, and a talking dog take us to Jötunheim and back in the story of Prince Ring from Icelandic folklore.

The creature is mouse deer who just wants to dance and hopefully not kill anyone.

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A story from 1001 Nights about how to get rid of that annoying babysitter and what to do if your husbands keep getting killed (the answer is, apparently, to keep getting married).

The creature is the sea monk, neither a monk nor a sea creature, but a horrifying Cthulhu mash-up.

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The stories of the creation from Roman/Greek mythology, the first werewolf, and Pygmalion, and also some Ares stuff because this is his week I guess.

The creature, the Bonnacon (or, as cultured people say, Bo-nacho), has fiery diarrhea. Insert spicy food/White Castle joke here.

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Inflatable cow for some reason: https://myths.link/mooooooo

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