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34 - The Mouse Tower
A German legend of an evil clergyman eaten by rats. But the story isn't all it's cracked up to be; countless variants of it exist across Europe.
Episode 34 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216733467682608&type=3
Part of the Straight Up Strange Network (https://www.straightupstrange.com/).
Baring-Gould, Sabine. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1877.
Brewer, Ebenezer C. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama (vol. 3).
Coryat, Thomas. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up In Five Moneths Travells (vol. 2). Glasgow: University Press, 1905.
Gask, Lilian. Folk Tales From Many Lands. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1910.
Gerald of Wales. The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis. London: George Bell & Sons, 1894.
Miltoun, Francis. Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine. Boston: Colonial Press, 1909.
Morris, Charles. Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality (vol. 5). Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott, 1908.
von Döllinger, Johann J.I. Fables Respecting the Popes in the Middle Ages. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1872.
“The Mouse Tower,” Buffalo Commercial, April 9, 1901.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babenberg
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-archbishop-hatto
http://www.loreley-info.com/eng/rhein-rhine/castles/maeuseturm.php
https://melaniejeanjuneau.blog/2014/02/27/there-is-a-saint-for-everything-afraid-of-mice/
https://www.fuenfseenland.de/fuenfseenland/die-fuenf-seen/woerthsee/
https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/mouse-tower/
Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
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A German legend of an evil clergyman eaten by rats. But the story isn't all it's cracked up to be; countless variants of it exist across Europe.
Episode 34 Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10216733467682608&type=3
Part of the Straight Up Strange Network (https://www.straightupstrange.com/).
Baring-Gould, Sabine. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1877.
Brewer, Ebenezer C. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama (vol. 3).
Coryat, Thomas. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up In Five Moneths Travells (vol. 2). Glasgow: University Press, 1905.
Gask, Lilian. Folk Tales From Many Lands. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1910.
Gerald of Wales. The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis. London: George Bell & Sons, 1894.
Miltoun, Francis. Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine. Boston: Colonial Press, 1909.
Morris, Charles. Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality (vol. 5). Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott, 1908.
von Döllinger, Johann J.I. Fables Respecting the Popes in the Middle Ages. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1872.
“The Mouse Tower,” Buffalo Commercial, April 9, 1901.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babenberg
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-archbishop-hatto
http://www.loreley-info.com/eng/rhein-rhine/castles/maeuseturm.php
https://melaniejeanjuneau.blog/2014/02/27/there-is-a-saint-for-everything-afraid-of-mice/
https://www.fuenfseenland.de/fuenfseenland/die-fuenf-seen/woerthsee/
https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/mouse-tower/
Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.