ADD Storytelling

Hope you're all feeling energetic because this week it's time to get Tuckered Out as our resident husband takes the wheel for an exploration of nautical creatures of Japanese folklore! If it's wet, Japanese, and most likely not a real thing, we're covering it! Maddie will be back next week for more of your standard, intelligible fare but for now enjoy this week's serving of ADD Storytelling: Tuckered Out!

Umibozu, yuna furei, and kappa tales:

https://hyakumonogatari.com/

Youtube link of Sekiro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oPYIE69uQ&ab_channel=GyakuRyonaVideoGame

If you have any myths, stories, ghost stories, hauntings, questions, suggestions, feedback, corrections, or if you would like to become a sponsor for future episodes please email us at :

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Anansi is an Akan mythic being and cultural icon of Western Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. We go over his two most famous stories, his gender fluidity and general liminality, and his important cultural role in the Asante culture and later in Jamaica. Come learn about this trickster god and the legacy he has today in modern comics and culture. 

*Trigger warnings* We do talk about the enslavement of African people and the things people had to do to survive on Jamaican plantations in relation to Anansi's influence in these areas. 

This is a repost of the originally published 9.16.21 episode, as the first version had corrupted files. 

This episode covers Japanese spirit foxes: the inari & the kitsune. Inari foxes are messengers of the rice deity, Inari. We spend a majority of our time on the kitsune, as they are much more mischievous. They can transform, bend time & space, create fire & illusions, and other such things at the expense of other animals and people. The conversation then goes into some of the cultural quirks foxes have inspired in Japan, and the origin of the famous "moshi-moshi" answer to a phone call.

If you have any myths, stories, ghost stories, hauntings, questions, suggestions, feedback, corrections, or if you would like to become a sponsor for future episodes please email us at :

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Join your neurodivergent host, Maddie, & her cohost, Tucker, on this careening journey talking about Changeling folktales: a fairy substitute for a person that the fairies had abducted and either replaced with their own stock, or with a lump of wood. Changelings were notable for their inhuman intelligence and ability, large appetites, mischievousness, and ungovernable spirits. Many methods are used to get the "real child" back from the fairies. The conversation then turns to medical history speculation, vaccines, and autism in relation to changeling lore. 

If you have any myths, stories, ghost stories, hauntings, questions, suggestions, feedback, corrections, or if you would like to become a sponsor for future episodes please email us at :

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*trigger warning* : This episode contains reference to true crime events of child and domestic abuse, in relation to the myths covered. 

Resources for Autistic Folks:

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)

provides support, community, and public policy advocacy, by and for people on the autism spectrum.

autisticadvocacy.org

Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)

seeks to share information which works to build acceptance and understanding of disability, while dispelling stereotypes and misinformation which perpetuate unnecessary fears surrounding an autism diagnosis.

awnnetwork.org

Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)

works to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chance to speak up to empower themselves as everyone else.

sabeusa.org