207-Monkey King: Girls Before Swine

🪱Mr. Worm is getting married! That (not creepy) stranger is looking in your windows! Shin is driving tired!Five interconnected stories from Korean folklore about letting people know the real you. And 😈 The Creature: DuergarIf you're at risk of being beaten up by the Duergar, no ...  Show more

⚔️Sir Graelent is too beautiful for his scruplesAt least that's what the queen thinks. Good thing she doesn't have the power to wreck his whole life if he doesn't love her. Oh, wait...😈 The Creature: The WitkəśSick bears eating dirt means you have to get your gunpowder boat, sca ...  Show more

For the spooky month of October, I'm reading my short horror story, "Go-Away Monkey" from my collection The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales. It's set in an older Japan in a small village that has been ravaged by smallpox. If you remember Episode 4 (Monkeys and Monkey Lore), you'll ...  Show more

Our lovely cast members got married this month at their beautiful home in Iceland. They met while recording Dark Dice & The White Vault. In this episode we chat about Iceland, Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), wedding hijinks, a bird called the Hrossagaukur ( https://en.wikipedia. ...  Show more

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals. A military grave from the 5th century BC was found to contain something extraordinary; a macaque monkey dressed as a roma ...  Show more

Support this podcast on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/historyofvikingVisit my friend and Swedish blacksmith, Philip Lufolk: https://lufolk.comMedieval Scandinavians and other Germanic peoples celebrated a holiday called Yule during the time of year when days became longer and ...  Show more