🌲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 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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💀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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📖 Sources

• Metamorphoses: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21765/21765-h/21765-h.htm
• Hesiod's works: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348
• The Library of Apollodorus: https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html
• The Extant Odes of Pindar: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10717
• The Iliad: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130
• The Odyssey: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727
• The Greek Myths: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310786/the-greek-myths-by-robert-graves/

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🏰 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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• "March of the Dragons" by Yagull Music
• "Dream Roads Forever" by Yagull Music
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🧙‍♂️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.

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• Toller's Neighbors: https://www.wisdomlib.org/scandinavia/book/a-collection-of-popular-tales-from-the-norse-and-north-german/d/doc64489.html
• The Man Without A Heart: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danish_Fairy_and_Folk_Tales/The_Man_without_a_Heart

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📝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.

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😈 The Creature: Wokulo

Tiny invisible hairy naked men could be watching you right now. And they're really good at wrestling.

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• "Brer Sprine" by Blue Dot Sessions

🐍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.

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😈 The Creature: Chameleon

Bad news travels fast. Faster than a chameleon, at least.

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👹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.

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😈 The Creature: Waterlord

The bargain bin version of the Hydra...just don't sacrifice your kids to it.

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🦢 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.

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😈 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.

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🖤 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 Pang Noo and Uhn Hah.

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😈 The Creature: Vu-Murt

He's not a convenience store. He's not a generic superhero. He's that naked man combing his hair by the lake.

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• "Und Galaxe" by Blue Dot Sessions

The story of King Mighty Mikko, a young man who isn't a king or mighty, but he is Mikko, and maybe that's all he needs. Oh...and a very clever fox conman.

The creature is Vishap, who lives at the top of a mountain and just wants to give you cash and prizes to not be covered in poison blood

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"Flatlands 4th" by Blue Dot Sessions
 "Slate Tracker" by Blue Dot Sessions
 "Still Nite" by Blue Dot Sessions
 "Western Tanager" by Chad Crouch
 "Mallard" by Chad Crouch