Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod

Myths and Legends

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Jason Weiser and Carissa Weiser tell stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cultures throughout history. Some, like the stories of Aladdin, King Arthur, and Hercules are stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories you might not have heard, but really should. All the stories are sourced from world folklore, but retold for modern ears. These are stories of wizards, knights, Vikings, dragons, princesses, and kings from the time when the world beyond the map was a dangerous and wonderful place. 

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Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod

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Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

413: European folklore: Justice 16.07.2025

🔔 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 m...

412: Indian folklore: Dicey 02.07.2025

🎲 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 --- Links: 💬 Discord : https://myths.link/discord 📷️ Instagram : https://ins...

411: Celtic folklore: The Wake 18.06.2025

⛵️ 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. --- Links: 📚️ Fictional is back! : https://fictional.fm/subsc...

410: Japanese folklore: Provincial 04.06.2025

⛩️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? --- Links: ⚠️  Disclaimer : https...

409: Reynard: Nasty, Brutish, and Short 21.05.2025

🦊 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 hav...

408: Knights of the Round Table: Hither and Thither 07.05.2025

🏰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.  ---...

407: West African folklore: Wiser 23.04.2025

🍼 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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord : https://myths.link/discord Instagram : https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesk...

406: Slavic folklore: Udder Nonsense 09.04.2025

🐄 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 hopef...

405: European legends: Ale to the King 26.03.2025

🍺 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 ver...

404: Monkey King: Not Found 12.03.2025

🤑 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, becau...

403: Norse sagas: Wormtongue 26.02.2025

⚔️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? --- Disclaimer: https://myths.link/403 Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership Source: http...

402: Japanese folklore: Misconceptions 12.02.2025

🐸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 a...

401: Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race 29.01.2025

🐀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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord : https://myths.link/discord Instagram : https://...

400: Celtic folklore: The Baddies 15.01.2025

👸 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. --- Links Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership Studson Studio (Centisteed): https:...

399: Canadian folklore: Wild Night 31.12.2024

🎉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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord : https://myths.link/discord Instagram : http...

398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter 18.12.2024

🌲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. --- Links 🎧 Conn...

397: Monkey King: King of Hearts 11.12.2024

🐵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 --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord : htt...

396: Greek Myths: Hades, Too 04.12.2024

💀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. --- Links 🛒  Shop is open again! Check out the merch at https://shop....

395: Breton folklore: Darkest Knight 27.11.2024

🏰 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 int...

394: Danish folklore: Heartless 20.11.2024

🧙‍♂️How a Scientist Becomes a Wizard🧙‍♂️ Two stories from Denmark about people dealing with their neighbors in very different ways. One loves and accepts them. The other just wants to get away so he tears out his own heart. 😈 The Creature : Abumi-guchi (鐙口) AKA Stirrup mouth. Your friend to the end. And beyond. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord : Click here to join! Instagram : https://in...

393: 1001 Nights: Let it Be(ak) (part 2 of 2) 13.11.2024

📝A Cavern Full of Snakes is apparently a Great Classroom📝 Hasib is still stuck in the room with the Queen of Serpents and twelve thousand snakes, and the QoS a story to tell. Two of them, actually. Long ones. Two years' worth of stories of guys lost in the world...and two different ways of dealing with mistakes and loss. Basically, she's being a very tricky teacher. --- 😈 The Creature : Wokulo...

392: 1001 Nights: The Unthinkable (part 1 of 2) 06.11.2024

🐍 Hasib wants to avoid a freak library accident 🐍 So he will avoid learning anything. Ever. This week, it's the story of Hasib and the Queen of Serpents, the snake woman with a cistern full of honey...and a secret. --- 😈 The Creature : Chameleon Bad news travels fast. Faster than a chameleon, at least. --- Links 🎧 Join the Community! Discord : Click here to join! 📖 Source The Queen of the Ser...

391: Japanese Horror: Handsome Bad Man 30.10.2024

👹 If you can't be with the one you love... 👹 Love the one you're with? What? No. Kill everyone in your way until you get what you want. This week: a ghost story from Japan about what happens when a ronin, a masterless samurai, has nothing to lose in a quest to regain what he lost, and the people unfortunate enough to be in his way. --- 😈 The Creature : Waterlord The bargain bin version of the H...

390: Hans Christian Andersen: Swan Song 23.10.2024

🦢 Let them eat sand 🦢 A story from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen about a witch who wants to take over the kingdom and the twelve kids who stand in her way. Just kidding, they have no idea what's going on. --- 😈 The Creature : Walek You no longer need to leave your meat out forever on a sun-warmed stone. You know why? The Walek, that's why. --- Links 🎧 Join the Community! Discord : Clic...

389: Korean folklore: Star-crossed 16.10.2024

🖤 The story of why you don't menace crows. Even if the people you're doing it to try to mess with are extremely annoying and lovey-dovey. Or, if you're single and looking, here's why you should definitely throw some rocks at some crows. It might just lead to you meeting the love of your life... sixteen years later, after several trips through an active war zone. This is the unlikely love story of...

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