313A-1001 Nights: Party Down

🏰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.  --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord: https://myths.link/discord Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos 📖 Source Morien: https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/morien-weston.pdf --- 📢 Sponsors Quince Treat your closet to a little summer glow-up with Quince. Go to https://quince.com/legends for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Mint Mobile This year, skip breaking a sweat AND breaking the bank. Get your summer savings and shop premium wireless plans at https://mintmobile.com/legends BetterHelp This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. Home Chef For a limited time, Home Chef is offering my listeners FIFTY PERCENT OFF and free shipping for your first box PLUS free dessert for life!  --- 🎵 Music Credits "Caravan 9" by Blue Dot Sessions "Firelight Child" by Blue Dot Sessions "Lovers Hollow" by Blue Dot Sessions "Our Ears, Deceivers" by Blue Dot Sessions "Road Fellow" by Blue Dot Sessions

🍼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 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos 💀 Item this week Grim Steeper: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCZY2N9V 📖 Source Here's one of them: https://archive.org/details/africanfolklore00dors/page/420/mode/2up?q=wiser --- 📢 Sponsors Outschool If you want to try Outschool, you can now get up to $20 off your child's’ first class or tutoring session for a limited time. This exclusive discount is only available when you go to https://outschool.com/legends and use code LEGENDS at checkout BetterHelp This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Talltell" by Blue Dot Sessions "Soda Baron" by Blue Dot Sessions "Falaal" by Blue Dot Sessions "Remsen" by Blue Dot Sessions "Matamoscas" by Blue Dot Sessions

🐄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. --- 🎧 Connect with us! Discord: https://myths.link/discord Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com Goldfish trophy https://myths.link/goldfish 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos 🎶Music the creature sang https://myths.link/406 --- 📢 Sponsors Mint Mobile Shop data plans at https://mintmobile.com/legends. FastGrowingTrees Listeners to our show get 15% their first purchase when using the code LEGENDS at checkout. at https://fastgrowingtrees.com HomeChef For a limited time, Home Chef is offering my listeners 50% and free shipping for your first box PLUS free dessert for life! https://homechef.com/legends Quince For your next trip, treat yourself to the luxe upgrades you deserve from Quince. Go to https://quince.com/legends for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Bare Elm" by Blue Dot Sessions "Hanging Rock" by Blue Dot Sessions "Golden Grass" by Blue Dot Sessions "Bauxite" by Blue Dot Sessions - "Apollo Diedre" by Blue Dot Sessions

🍺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. --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord: https://myths.link/discord Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos ⚠️ Disclaimer https://myths.link/405 --- 📢 Sponsors BetterHelp Build your support system, with Betterhelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. FastGrowingTrees listeners to our show get 15% their first purchase when using the code LEGENDS at checkout. at https://fastgrowingtrees.com Smalls Give your cat the food they deserve. Head to https://Smalls.com and use promo code LEGENDS at checkout for 50% off your first order PLUS free shipping! --- 🎵 Music Credits "Elmore Heights" by Blue Dot Sessions "The Furthering" by Blue Dot Sessions "Country Butter" by Blue Dot Sessions "Deacon Jeanie" by Blue Dot Sessions

🤑 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?  --- Links 🎧 Connect with us! Discord: https://myths.link/discord Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos 🦴 Item this week Human femur? https://www.jonsbones.com/shop-by-category?category=long-bones --- 📢 Sponsors FastGrowingTrees listeners to our show get 15% their first purchase when using the code LEGENDS at checkout. at https://fastgrowingtrees.com Link to picture of our Korean lilac tree looking hopefully at the yard in which it will be planted: https://myths.link/404 Quince Give yourself the luxury you deserve, with Quince. Go to https://Quince.com/legends for 365-day returns and free shipping on your order. BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Build your support system, with Betterhelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Awaiting an Arrival" by Blue Dot Sessions "Soda Baron" by Blue Dot Sessions

⚔️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: https://www.sagadb.org/gunnlaugs_saga_ormstungu.en 🎧 Connect with us! Discord: https://myths.link/discord Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors Mint Mobile: Shop plans at https://mintmobile.com/legends! Outschool: If you want to try Outschool, you can now get up to $20 off your child's’ first class or tutoring session for a limited time. Go to https://outschool.com and use code LEGENDS at checkout! HomeChef: For a limited time, HomeChef is offering my listeners 18 Free Meals PLUS Free Dessert for Life and free shipping on your first box! Go to https://homechef.com/legends --- 🎵 Music Credits "An Unknown Visitor" by Blue Dot Sessions "Black Ballots" by Blue Dot Sessions "Heath" by Blue Dot Sessions "Quiet Sill" by Blue Dot Sessions "Broken Rock Lament" by Blue Dot Sessions

🐸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. --- Links Disclaimer: https://myths.link/402 42 Rubber Chickens: https://myths.link/42rubberchickens 🎧 Connect with us! Discord: Click here to join! Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends 📖 Sources Story 1: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.18748.20 Story 2: https://www.japanpowered.com/folklore-and-urban-legends/two-frogs-japanese-folktale Story 3: https://www.worldoftales.com/Asian_folktales/Japanese_folktale_63.html#gsc.tab=0 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors BetterHelp This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Discover your relationship green flags, with Betterhelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS to get 10% off your first month. Quince Give yourself the luxury you deserve with Quince! Go to https://Quince.com/legends for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. --- 🎵 Music Credits "Then Disappeared to the Ground" by Blue Dot Sessions "Bogs Reverie" by Blue Dot Sessions "Jat Poure" by Blue Dot Sessions

🐀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://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors HomeChef For a limited time, HomeChef is offering my listeners 18 Free Meals PLUS Free Dessert for Life and free shipping on your first box! Go to https://homechef.com/legends BetterHelp This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/myths to get 10% off your first month. Mint Mobile Switch to Mint and new customers can get half off an Unlimited plan until February 2. Go to https://mintmobile.com/legends --- 🎵 Music Credits "Hrse Hrse" by Blue Dot Sessions "The Sermon" by Blue Dot Sessions

👸 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ajb3Uva42w Literally a smoked sheep's head. Do not open this if you don't want to see a mostly-intact smoked sheep's head: https://www.reddit.com/r/meat/comments/qh2lsi/i_got_roasted_over_at_rfood_for_eating_smoked/ 🎧 Connect with us! Discord: https://myths.link/discord Instagram: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 📢 Sponsors Quince Upgrade your closet this year without the upgraded price tag at https://Quince.com/legends and get 365-day returns plus free shipping on your order Acorns Myths and Legends is sponsored by Acorns. Head to https://acorns.com/LEGENDS or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! BetterHelp Myths and Legends is sponsored by BetterHelp. Write your story, with BetterHelp by going to https://BetterHelp.com/MYTHS and get 10% off your first month. PrettyLitter Indoor cats and indoor humans agree: Pretty Litter helps our house smell fresh and clean. Go to https://PrettyLitter.com/legendsto save 20% on your first order and get a free cat toy! --- 🎵 Music Credits "Intrinsic Pace" by Blue Dot Sessions "Gene's Waltz" by Blue Dot Sessions

🎉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: https://instagram.com/mythsandlegends Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mythsandlegends.com 🛒 The Myths and Legends store is back! https://shop.nextpod.com 📖 Sources La Chasse Galerie: https://archive.org/details/lachassegalerieo00beau/page/n13/mode/2up Legends of Le Détroit: https://archive.org/details/cu31924028870686 📼 YouTube We're on YouTube, now. Currently, it's just the audio episodes, but that might change sometime? https://www.youtube.com/@mythsandlegendspodcast/videos --- 🎵 Music Credits "Homin Brer" by Blue Dot Sessions "Golden Grass" by Blue Dot Sessions "Bedroll" by Blue Dot Sessions