🪲They're not so different🪲

One is the king of the world, and the other is a beetle. One wants to fight God, the other wants to wear golden horse shoes. When it comes to being completely arrogant and insufferable, though, they have more in common than you might think. It's two fairy tales of pride and power from Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.

😈 The Creature: The Elle-folk

They're NOT elves. They just look and act like them and have a very similar name but if you say they're elves hope you enjoy your VERY sick cow.

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"Lonely Stairwell" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Sal's Place" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Tropicazia" by Blue Dot Sessions

🫏One little rent-a-donkey, one big journey🫏

Actually he's a full-grown rental donkey but the journey is a big one because, when you're a poorly treated rental donkey and you have a chance to escape, you take it. Then, spend the rest of the time trying to get back to captivity because the world is dangerous and scary.

😈 The Creature: Eikthymir

The giant stag from Norse myth that makes it rain...rain. He's not as cool as his friend, who has alcohol constantly flowing out of her udders.

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"Hesper" by Chad Crouch

"The Killjoy Brothers" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Fog Interlude" by Chad Crouch

"Sewer King" by Blue Dot Sessions

🐷Sun Wukong is a bad friend🐷

But, to be fair, he never said he and Pigsy were friends...because you don't send your friends to dinner parties where everyone is trying to murder you.

😈 The Creature: Each Tened

A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire.

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🎵 Music Credits

"Low Coal Camper" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Morning Antic" by Chad Crouch

"Our Digital Compass" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Titter Snowbird" by Blue Dot Sessions

🔔Ring the bell for justice🔔

Want justice? Ring the bell. Doesn't matter if you're a horse or a snake or a merchant or a peasant but if you're one of the latter two probably don't get caught ringing the bell of justice. King Charlemagne puts of a bell of justice and consequences ensue.

😈 The Creature: The Dun Cow

A giant cow that just wants to give your free groceries. Just don't try to take more than your fair share.

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"Collapsing Slo-mo" by Chad Crouch

"Darning the Night" by Blue Dot Sessions

"De-Facto" by Chad Crouch

"Simple Aside" by Blue Dot Sessions

"The Cost of All Things" by Blue Dot Sessions

🎲Losing your kingdom in a game of dice🎲

The story of Nala and Damayanti is a tale of love, loss, and losing everything but your underwear because of your terrible decisions and then also your underwear.

😈 The Creature: Drekavac

The creature is the Drekavac, and it's many things to many people. All of them are weird

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🎵 Music Credits

"Edgeworthia" by Chad Crouch

"Pilgrim's Progress" by Chad Crouch

"Dune Lullaby" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Thule Racer" by Blue Dot Sessions

⛵️Get lost at sea with Maelduin⛵️

All Maelduin wants to do is avenge his father's murder...with more murder. He should have listened to that wizard. Because he didn't, his trip just got a whole lot longer. And stranger.

😈 The Creature: The Donestre

The lion headed stranger who will eat you, sure, but also feel really bad about it.

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"The Onyx" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Median Point" by Blue Dot Sessions

"New Crescente" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Morning Glare" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Two Pound" by Blue Dot Sessions

⛩️Stories from the Japanese countryside⛩️

Five interconnected stories of purpose, meaning, justice, talking animals, the boss falling off a cliff, mushrooms, and travel hampers.

😈 **The Creature: The Dinny Mara

The Dinny Mara is a friendly merman who wants to rehabilitate the reputation of water creatures. They could probably start by not drowning so many people?

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🎵 Music Credits

"Never a Worried One" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Denton" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Toadstool Runner" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Spiro's Etude" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Writer's Retreat" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Paper Crane Sonata" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Convex Marsa" by Blue Dot Sessions

🦊 Reynard the fox hates meetings, too 🦊

Especially because at most of the meetings he's invited to, people usually try to kill and eat him. Today, we're back in the stories of Reynard the fox, with sick kings, superpowered storks, and Isengrim the wolf trying to not constantly get skinned alive.

😈 The Creature: The Devs

I guess you have to worry about head trauma and TBI a lot less when you have seven heads.

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📖 (English) Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=_L4fAAAAIAAJ

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🎵 Music Credits

"Devanz" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Spunker" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Laddo" by Blue Dot Sessions

🏰When a knight says he'll be right back, he means it

Unless he dies. Or gets captured. Or just forgets about it, prompting his son to come looking for him in the land of wickedness...and also maybe saving Camelot in the process? It's the story of Sir Morien.

😈 The Creature: The Kaichigo

All those games you haven't played are lonely...and also maybe messing with your stuff in the basement. 

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Morien: https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/morien-weston.pdf

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🎵 Music Credits

"Caravan 9" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Firelight Child" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Lovers Hollow" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Our Ears, Deceivers" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Road Fellow" by Blue Dot Sessions

🍼Have a budding tyrant? You need a snarky talking baby🍼

Yenga Naa is wiser than the chief. How do you know? Well, he named himself that...the moment he was born.

😈 The Creature: The Cornu

How do you torment sinners without getting your hands dirty? The cornu, that's how.

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💀 Item this week

Grim Steeper: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCZY2N9V

📖 Source

Here's one of them: https://archive.org/details/africanfolklore00dors/page/420/mode/2up?q=wiser

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🎵 Music Credits

"Talltell" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Soda Baron" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Falaal" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Remsen" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Matamoscas" by Blue Dot Sessions