🐸Love means never having to say I'm sorry (I poisoned you)"🐸

...or something like that. This Valentine's Day there are three love stories from Japan. On the first, a man moves on after becoming a widower (kind of), on the second, two frogs fall out of love...with a place, and on the third, the whole world is in love with a geisha.

😈 The Creature: Maikubi (舞首)

Three heads that don't so much as dance as they do bite each other and sink ships.

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Story 1: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.18748.20

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"Jat Poure" by Blue Dot Sessions

🐀It's Race Day🐀

Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their years: a race that's terrible for all involved.

😈 The Creature: Nian

Why you want to dress in red to avoid long, unpleasant runs on New Year's Day, though any run in January or February (or in general) is unpleasant.

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👸 Our princess is in another castle! 👸

Two stories from Ireland where it's unclear who the villain is...and how it might just be among the people we least suspect.

😈 The creature: le cheval Bayard

A horse who just wants to make you feel bad about your riding ability...and also destroy your marriage.

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🎉At a bad New Year's party?🎉

It has to be better than little Joe and Baptiste's New Years, in the frigid Canadian wilderness. But they're going to change that. By making a deal with the devil.

😈 The creature: The Yale

The Yale, or the Centicore, is a super goat who's super famous despite not deserving it at all.

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🌲Trolls, zombies, and evil housecats🌲

It must be Christmas in the Nordic countries. Today, a young officer is stuck in the city after being in a brief coma. At least there are some tales to keep him company.

😈 The Creature: Frau Gauden

The creature this week wants to give you that dog you wanted for the holidays. The catch is that it can never leave. Also, it will attack you.

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🐵Monkey and Co. are really hoping this city is different🐵

I mean, it has to be, right? Not every city can be full of monsters...can it? We're back in the Journey to the West with Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.

😈 The Creature: Cacus

A half spider man that does whatever a spider can. Providing spiders breath file, steal cattle, and get killed by Hercules

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💀Hades is taking the long way home💀

After dropping Persephone off in the world of the humans, Hades makes the long walk back down to his palace at the heart of his realms, giving us a tour of the greek underworld and all the things that creep within.

😈 The Creature: Bwca

An elf-like creature that does not like bowls of pee.

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Metamorphoses: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21765/21765-h/21765-h.htm

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The Library of Apollodorus: https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html

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"Contemps" by Blue Dot Sessions

🏰 Why maybe you should pass on dating that person with the dad who murders everyone trying to date them 🏰

The tale of Degarré is a story of knights, chivalry, violence, and grappling with what it means when the person you've idolized and sought your whole life...might just be the villain of the story.

😈 The Creature: Ninmenju (人面樹)

That tree that thinks you're HILARIOUS...until you bite into its face fruit.

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"Death of the Dragon" by Yagull Music

"March of the Dragons" by Yagull Music

"Dream Roads Forever" by Yagull Music

"Town Market" by Blue Dot Sessions

🧙‍♂️How a Scientist Becomes a Wizard🧙‍♂️

Two stories from Denmark about people dealing with their neighbors in very different ways. One loves and accepts them. The other just wants to get away so he tears out his own heart.

😈 The Creature: Abumi-guchi (鐙口)

AKA Stirrup mouth. Your friend to the end. And beyond.

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"Bergeron" by Blue Dot Sessions

📝A Cavern Full of Snakes is apparently a Great Classroom📝

Hasib is still stuck in the room with the Queen of Serpents and twelve thousand snakes, and the QoS a story to tell. Two of them, actually. Long ones. Two years' worth of stories of guys lost in the world...and two different ways of dealing with mistakes and loss. Basically, she's being a very tricky teacher.

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😈 The Creature: Wokulo

Tiny invisible hairy naked men could be watching you right now. And they're really good at wrestling.

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"Convex Marsa" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Brer Sprine" by Blue Dot Sessions