255-Chinese Folklore: Picture Me This

🕷️Spiders don't have tails, but this one has tales. Anansi is one of the most famous folklore tricksters in the world, but we'll see that behind every great trickster...is likely a trail of broken and/or angry people who want to get even.😈 The Creature: Tsuchinoko People are cr ...  Show more

🔱It's Poseidon's turn.On the podcast. Not to be king of the gods. He's actually totally not mad that his little brother is king. Because Zeus isn't the king of him. But Poseidon does do everything his brother says. Not because Zeus told him to, though. He just planned to do it a ...  Show more

Tonight's storytelling is called 'The Magic Brocade' from the picture book A Tale of China, a retelling by Aaron Shepherd and used with permission as part of The Gifts of Story Series. In order to save his mother’s life, a young man named Chen must reclaim her e ...

Explore tales and traditions from Taoist sorcery, alchemy and Chinese folktales. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

The adventures of the Monkey King continue! Facing a dangerous mountain range, Sun Wukong must use his wits to find safe passage through. Standing in his way? An old enemy with a vicious grudge and power unlike anything he’s seen before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po ...  Show more

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