🧙‍♂️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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🎵 Music Credits

• "Upper Registers" by Blue Dot Sessions
• "Bergeron" by Blue Dot Sessions

📝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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One Thousand and One Nights Vol. 5: https://myths.link/hasib

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• "The Gran Dias" by Blue Dot Sessions
• "Don Germaine" by Blue Dot Sessions
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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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• "Rest (Instrumental)" by Chad Crouch
• "Telmain Ares" by Blue Dot Sessions
• "Kalsted" by Blue Dot Sessions
• "Hanging Rock" by Blue Dot Sessions

👹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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• "Winter in Black" by Blue Dot Sessions
• "Minister Creek" by Blue Dot Sessions

🦢 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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• "Magpie" by Chad Crouch
• "Building Time Lapse" by Chad Crouch

🖤 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.

Disclaimer: https://myths.link/389

😈 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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• "Stephi" by Blue Dot Sessions
• "Negentropy" by Chad Crouch
• "The Bluff Trail (Instrumental)" by Chad Crouch
• "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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Source: https://myths.link/mightymikko

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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

The conclusion of the story of Bova, where last episode we saw him ride out to battle alone against an army...but now he faces more danger delivering a letter and dressing up like an elderly man.

The creature is Sunakake-Baba, a little old lady who will throw sand in your face...for justice?

Source: https://myths.link/bova
Post: https://myths.link/387
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"Breeze Bloc" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Steps" by Chad Crouch
"Rope Swing" by Chad Crouch
"Two Boys and a Girl" by Chad Crouch
"Cicle Veroni" by Blue Dot Sessions

The story of Bova, a hero from Slavic folklore, the beautiful beautiful man who is on a lifelong quest for vengeance. Against his mom.

The creature is the Vila (or Vile), a ghost with unfinished business...of dancing naked in the town square.

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"Miniatures" by Blue Dot Sessions
 "High Water Channel (Instrumental)" by Chad Crouch
 "Pretty Melody" by Chad Crouch
 "Bambi" by Chad Crouch

More fables from Aesop about life on the farm and how, if someone stops by wearing your friend's skin...they might not be all that trustworthy.

The creature is the Veo, a dragon you don't want to slay.

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"TJ Elwood" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Sitka Spruce" by Chad Crouch
"Liptis" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Raffiel" by Blue Dot Sessions

The story of the silent princess and the prince who definitely has been cursed by that strange woman in the street. He totally hasn't just psyched himself out thinking that if he doesn't meet the silent princess, he will die, forcing him and his tutor to go on a 15-month-long, stinky quest.

The creature is the Abaia, the eel that loves life so much it kills everybody.

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"Grey Grey Joe" by Blue Dot Sessions
"The Caspian Sea" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Tower of Mirrors" by Blue Dot Sessions