Monsters' Advocate

Monsters' Advocate

By Cailyn ToomeySociety & Culture
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Monsters' Advocate episodes

  • Wish Granted
    We all want things we don't have, that's why we wish! This episode, I'll show you how to be a little more proactive with your wishes, by telling you how to ransom magical creatures in exchange for magic! Careful what you wish for~Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] and You"Russian sturgeon: Acipenser gueldenstaedti (Brandt)". NatureGate. Retrieved 2013-12-25.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fisherman_and_His_WifeLeprechaunsMcAnally, David Russell. Irish Wonders. New York: Weathervane Books, 1888.Koch, John T. (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1851094407.Yeats, William Butler. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London: Walter Scott, 1888.KapreWolff, John U. (1972). "kapri". A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan.

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    14 min
  • Strange Beasts
    Hi Guys! Sorry this is late and sounds weird, I was sick, which is not great for podcast-making. Anyway I hope you enjoy this silly 20th episode special, I love you all!Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] KongVaz, Mark Cotta (2005). Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong. Villard. ISBN 1-4000-6276-4.GodzillaKalat, David (2010). A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series. McFarland. ISBN 9780786447497.Ryfle, Steve (1998). Japan’s Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of the Big G. Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 1550223488.Tsutsui, William M. (2003). Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403964742.Kaiju"Introduction to Kaiju [in Japanese]". dic-pixiv. Retrieved 2017-03-09.CloverfieldMax Evry (January 21, 2008). "Reeves Runs Merrily Through Cloverfield". Coming Soon. Retrieved 2008-01-21.Pacific RimMcIntyre, Gina. "Guillermo del Toro edges toward greater success with Pacific Rim". Hero Complex – movies, comics, pop culture. Los Angeles Times.Mr. Beaks (July 8, 2013). "Mr. Beaks Talks PACIFIC RIM, World Building And Gargantuas With Guillermo del Toro And Travis Beacham! Part One Of Two!". aintitcool.com. Retrieved July 8, 2013.

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    14 min
  • Down Under
    We've done types of monster, and monstrous behavior, but you know what we haven't done? Monstrous locations! And I can't think of a better place to start than a country that once waged a war against a bird and lost. Curious?Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] Emu Warhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_WarYara-ma-yha-whoMelton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Omnigraphics, Incorporated; 1999.Smith, W. Ramsey. Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals. Farrar & Rinehart, : New York. p. 342Bunyip and DiprotodonGeorge French Angus(1847) Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand. Vol 1, p.99. London. Reprinted 1969 Libraries Board of South Australia.Holden, Robert (2001), Bunyips: Australia's folklore of fear, National Library of Australia, ISBN 0-642-10732-7Fenner, Charles (1933), Bunyips and Billabongs, Sydney: Angus and RobertsonShuker, Karl P. N. (1995). "5". In search of prehistoric animals; Do giant extinct creatures still exist? (1st ed.). Blanchford. ISBN 0-7137-2469-2.Wroe, S.; Crowther, M.; Dortch, J.; Chong, J. (2003-09-18). "The size of the largest marsupial and why it matters". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 271: S34–S36."Science & Nature: Animals: Diprotodon". Official website. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). July 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2011.Drop Bears and Marsupial LionsLang, Anouk (June 2010). "Troping the masculine: Australian animals, the nation, and the popular imagination". Antipodes Volume 24 Issue 1.Wroe, S.; McHenry, C.; Thomason, J. (2005). "Bite club: comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour in fossil taxa". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.Extinct Marsupial Lion Tops African Lion In Fight To Death", Science Daily, 17 January 2008"Social Musings: Stories from July". Australian Museum. 17 August 2012.Hawkesbury River Monsterhttp://hauntedauckland.com/site/hawkesbury-river-monster/YowieJones, Margaret (31 July 1987). "It's spot the yowie time again". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 15Healy, Tony; Cropper, Paul (2006), The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot, Anomalist Books, ISBN 1933665165Willis, Paul (13 June 2002). "Yowie". Catalyst. ABC Television. Archived from the original on 28 October 2013.Tim the Yowie Man (2001), The adventures of Tim the Yowie Man, cryptonaturalist, Sydney: Random House Australia, ISBN 174051078X

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    17 min
  • King of the Cats
    Who's feeling frisky? Cats have been around for 9,000 years and they're still just as wild as ever. Let's learn about the ultimate political party animal, and meet some real life cat fairies!Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected]:Cat FactsWade, Nicholas (29 June 2007). "Study Traces Cat's Ancestry to Middle East". New York Times. New York: NYTC. Retrieved 2 April 2008.Winters, L, Walter GE IMPACTS of FERAL and FREE-RANGING CATS on Bird Species of Conservation Concern American Bird Conservancy, 31 May 2005. Archived 13 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-cats-will-probably-never-be-as-domesticated-as-dogs-9858889.htmlKing of the Cats, the Cat Sith, Kellas CatsD. L. Ashliman, "Death of an Underground Person: migratory legends of type 6070B"Bowers, Aron, "Kellas Cats, Scotching the Myth", Scottish Big Cat Trust, archived from the original on 4 October 2015, retrieved 4 October 2015Eberhart, George M. (2002), Mysterious creatures : a guide to cryptozoology, ABC-Clio, ISBN 1-57607-283-5Francis, Di (January 1993), My Highland Kellas Cats, Cape, ISBN 978-0-224-03608-5Grimassi, Raven (2000). Encyclopedia of Wicca and Witchcraft. St. Paul: Llewellyn. p. 76. ISBN 1-56718-257-7."Dr Andrew Kitchener". National Museum of Scotland. Archived from the original on 8 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.MacGillivray, Deborah. "The Cait Sidhe". Retrieved 14 September 2012.http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/meft/meft32.htmManeki-Neko, Bakeneko, NekomataElli Kohen: World history and myths of cats. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston 2003, ISBN 0-7734-6778-5, page 48–51.Alan Pate (2008). "Maneki Neko: Feline Fact & Fiction". Daruma Magazine. Amagasaki, Japan: Takeguchi Momoko. Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.Shizuko Mishima. "Manekineko: Japanese Lucky Cats". Japan Travel. About.com. Retrieved 3 August 2009"Bakeneko". The Obakemono Project. SH Morgan. Retrieved 25 October 201Kaii-Yōkai Denshō Database (KYDD). Online bibliographical database of supernatural folklore published by the International Research Center for Japanese StudiesDemon CatCatherine Avery (May 28, 1993). "Ghost Story ;There's a supernatural tale at most every corner in town". The Washington TimesLee Davidson (October 27, 1999). "Plenty of spooks on Capitol Hill for Halloween". Deseret News.Sheila Edmundson (October 30, 1999). "Halloween: Many things go bump in the still of night in D.C.". The Patriot Ledger.Terry Sue Shank (November 1, 1992).

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    15 min
  • Lady Boids
    Woops this episode ended up being almost double the length of a normal episode! You don't mind, do you? I just have a lot of feelings about bird women, and soon you will too~Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] Finch Song:http://www.xeno-canto.org/358584Melodius Warbler Song:http://www.xeno-canto.org/297605References:HarpiesAdrian Room, Who's Who in Classical Mythology, p. 147 ISBN 0-517-22256-6Argonautica, book II; Ovid XIII, 710; Virgil III, 211, 245Virgil, Aeneid 3.209SirensPerry, "The sirens in ancient literature and art", in The Nineteenth Century, reprinted in Choice Literature: a monthly magazine (New York) 2 (September–December 1883:163).Homer, The Odyssey 12.52Virgil. V. 846; Ovid XIV, 88Suda OnlineGamayunBoguslawski, Alexander (1999). "Religious Lubok". Winter Park, FL | via Rollins College: self-published. Retrieved 16 April 2009.AlkonostMatthews, John; Matthews, Caitlin (2010). The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A–Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic (children's illustrated ed.). London: HarperCollins UK. p. 16. ISBN 0007365055. Retrieved 18 November 2016Torpie, Kate (2007). Groovy Tubes: Mythical Beasts. Groovy Tube Books (children's illustrated ed.). Norwalk, CT: InnovativeKids. p. 23. ASIN B002YX0E8Y. Retrieved 18 November 2016.Ovid Metamorphoses XI, 410ff.-748SirinСирин. Bestiary (in Russian). Retrieved 2009-04-16Священные птицы. New Acropol (in Russian). Retrieved 2009-04-16

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    19 min
  • A Griffin of A Different Color
    Griffins are pretty cool, who doesn't like a good eagle lion combo? That's right, no one, so lets learn all the ways you can mix and match a griffin and introduce the exciting sequel to griffins!*p.s. A British male griffin is actually called a Keythong now, my bad! You'll get it if you listen.Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] Mayor, Archeology Magazine, November–December 1994, pp 53–59; Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters, 2000.Neva, Elena. "Central Asian Jewelry and their Symbols in Ancient Time" Artwis; citing Pugachenkova, G. (1959) "Grifon v drevnem iskusstve central’noi Azii." Sovetskya Arheologia, 2 pp. 70, 83Patch, Diana (29 May 2012). Dawn of Egyptian Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 139–140. ISBN 978-0300179521. Retrieved 2014-05-24.Teissier, Beatrice (31 December 1996). Egyptian Iconography on Syro-Palestinian Cylinder Seals of the Middle Bronze Age. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-3525538920. Retrieved 2014-05-24.Male griffin depicted in Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 222, sinister supporter of Earl of Carrick (Ireland)Illustrated Dictionary of Egyptian Mythology. Buffaloah.com. Retrieved on 2012-01-02.HieracosphinxGwynn-Jones, P. Ll. (1998) The Art of Heraldry : origins, symbols, designs, London : Parkgate, ISBN 1-85585-560-7HippogriffLieber, Francis (1831). Encuclopaedia Americana. pp. 339–. Retrieved 31 May 2015.Poulin, Paulin (1862). A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven; et al., eds. Qu'est-ce que l'homme ? Qu'est-ce que Dieu ? Solution scientifique du problème religieux (in French). p. 223.Vinycomb, John (1969). Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry. Library of Alexandria. pp. 123–. ISBN 9781465552556. Retrieved 31 May 2015.Wagner 2006, p. 124.

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    12 min
  • Brer Rabbit
    In honor of Black History Month, lets see what Brer Rabbit and all the other Brer animals are up to.Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] Chandler HarrisCochran, Robert (2004). "Black father: the subversive achievement of Joel Chandler Harris". African American Review. 38 (1): 21–34Walker, Alice (Summer 1981). "Uncle Remus, No Friend of Mine". Southern Exposure. 9: 29–31.Sundquist, Eric (1998). To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-89331-X.Trickster HareHare: Infamous Trickster God. godchecker.comBrer Rabbit TalesLester, Julius (1987). The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit. Dial Books. ISBN 0-8037-0271-X.http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/brer_rabbit_falls_down_the_wel.htmlhttp://themoonlitroad.com/how-brer-coon-gets-his-meat/

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    15 min
  • Oh Deer!
    Hey monster fans! I'm going to start releasing on Monday evenings I think, because my mornings are about to get a whole lot busier. Also sorry about the audio quality on this one, my mic was being dumb. Anyway, Please enjoy these deer!Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] Attack Video:https://www.snotr.com/video/5813/When_Deer_AttackGeneral Deer Factshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer#AnatomyWhite-tailed DeerVerCauteren, Kurt C. & Michael J. Pipas (2003). "A review of color vision in white-tailed deer". Wildlife Society Bulletin. 31 (3): 684–691. Retrieved September 20, 2013."ADW: Odocoileus virginianus: Information". Animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu. February 13, 2011.Deer WomanDunn, Carolyn. "Deer Woman and the Living Myth of Dreamtime". Endicott Journal of Mythic Arts. Retrieved 17 November 2016.http://www.native-languages.org/deer-woman.htmPamolaOfficial Website of the Penawahpskewi. (n.d.). Official Website of the Penawahpskewi. Retrieved October 17, 2014, from http://www.penobscotnation.org/US Hunting Statshttp://digitalmedia.fws.gov/cdm/ref/collection/document/id/207CWD and other Scary DiseasesBelay, E.D.; Maddox, R.A.; Williams, E.S.; Miller, M.W.; Gambetti, P.; Schonberger, L.B. (June 2004). "Chronic Wasting Disease and Potential Transmission to Humans". Emerging Infectious Diseases. CDC. 10 (6): 977–984. doi:10.3201/eid0905.020577. PMC 3323184Freely accessible. PMID 15207045. Retrieved 2008-04-08.Rachel Becker for Nature News. April 18, 2016 Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe"Chronic Wasting Disease". USGS National Wildlife Health Center. 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2014-12-05.A Focus on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy". Pathogens and Contaminants. Food Safety Research Information Office. November 2007. Archived from the original on 3 March 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2008http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs180/en/

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    14 min
  • Love Bites
    Happy Valentine's Day Listeners! This week we'll look at some monsters who love to love humans, and I will offer an orthodox suggestion for your V-day plans~Also, I'm doing a giveaway! rate and review on iTunes or comment with what you'd like to hear more of on any of our soc meds and you will be entered to win a DnD sticker set! Winner will be announced 2/21.Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected]:Incubus/ SuccubusDavidson, Jane P. (2012). Early modern supernatural : the dark side of European culture, 1400-1700. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger. p. 40. ISBN 9780313393433.Lacy ,Norris J. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, p. 322. (New York: Garland, 1991). ISBN 0-8240-4377-4.Lewis, James R., Oliver, Evelyn Dorothy, Sisung Kelle S. (Editor) (1996), Angels A to Z, Entry: Incubi and Succubi, pp. 218, 219, Visible Ink Press, ISBN 0-7876-0652-9Stephens, Walter (2002), Demon Lovers, p. 23, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-77261-6UndineBane, Theresa (2013), Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, ISBN 978-1-4766-1242-3Fass, Barbara F. (1972), "The Little Mermaid and the Artist's Quest for a Soul", Comparative Literature Studies, 9 (3): 291–302, JSTOR 40246020Boto Cor de Rosahttp://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-most-sexually-deviant-creatures-in-folklore/https://espressocomsaudade.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/honest-mythbrazilian-boto-cor-de-rosa/The Legend of Hippocrates DaughterChristiane Deluz, Le livre de Jehan de Mandeville, Leuven 1998, p. 215, as reported by Anthony Bale, trans., The Book of Marvels and Travels, Oxford 2012, ISBN 0199600600, p. 15 and footnotehttp://www.bartleby.com/209/4.html

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    12 min
  • Don't Touch That Dial
    Don't you hate it when someone touches your stuff without asking? I do, so let's learn about some delinquent monsters who throw stuff, break stuff, pretend to be stuff, and are stuff. Kinda.Lets Be SocialFacebook:www.facebook.com/monstersadvocate/Tumblr:monstersadvocate.tumblr.com/Twitter:@monstersadvoInstagram:@monstersadvocateEmail: [email protected] short I mentioned: https://tinyurl.com/z5g6p3eReferences:PoltergeistAllan Kardec, Le Livre des Esprits. (2000). chapter 106, Jean de Bonnot. p.46Terence Hines. (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 98. ISBN 978-1573929790GremlinsConant, Jennet. The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008Desmond, John. "The Gremlins Reform: An R.A.F. Fable." The New York Times, 11 April 1943. Retrieved: 12 October 2010.Hazen, John W. "Gremlin." Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1972. ISBN 978-0-308-40090-0.Matthews, John, and Caitlin Matthews. The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A-Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic. London: HarperElement, 2005. Print."The Gremlin Question." Royal Air Force Journal, Number 13, 18 April 1942.MimicBricken, Rob (September 16, 2013). "The 10 Most Memorable Dungeons & Dragons Monsters". io9. Retrieved January 20, 2016.Clinton Boomer, Jason Bulmahn, Joshua J. Frost, Nicolas Logue, Robert McCreary, Jason Nelson, Richard Pett, Sean K Reynolds, James L. Sutter, and Greg A. Vaughan. Dungeon Denizens Revisited (Paizo, 2009)"A look Back at Mimics". D&D Alumni. Wizards of the Coast. 2006-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-16TsukumogamiFoster, Michael Dylan (2009). Pandemonium and parade: Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai. University of California PressReider, Noriko T. (2009). "Animating Objects: Tsukumogami ki and the Medieval Illustration of Shingon Truth". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 36: 231–257.村上健司 『妖怪辞典』 毎日新聞社 2000年 221頁 ISBN 978-4-620-31428-0。小松和彦監修 『日本怪異妖怪大辞典』 東京堂出版 2013年 371頁 ISBN 978-4-490-10837-8。Classiques de l'Orient. 5. 1921

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    12 min

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A podcast about the unsung heroes of myths and legends-the monsters! We'll take a look at some monster-centric myths and legends, some not so ancient cryptids, and everything in-between and try to…