Myths and Legends

💪There's something powerful about confidence.

Except that, if you're not actually powerful...or generous...or deadly, pretending to be those things can get you in a lot of trouble. Only if you get caught, though. Three stories from South India of people who are faking it.

😈 The Creature: Okuri inu

Look, everyone wants a dog to hang out with them on the dark, scary road at night and protect them from dangerous mythological creatures. The problem is the Okuri Inu only protects you so that it can eat you itself.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age.

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

📊 The Survey

If you have a minute, we'd love your feedback on the show, and you can enter to win a monthly drawing of free memberships (must be 18 years old to enter to win the membership): https://myths.link/survey

🔗 Links:

Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Source: https://myths.link/sun
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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🎵 Music Credits

Picaroo by Blue Dot Sessions
Smooth Edges by Blue Dot Sessions
Alright but here's the problem by Breakmaster Cylinder
All Those Fragile Little Pieces by Breakmaster Cylinder

🗡️Ortnit has it all.

The strength of twelve men. A secret, super lineage. A dwarven sword and unbreakable armor. The question is, what is he going to do with it? Start a war to try to date a princess? Start a war to try to date a princess!

😈 The Creature: Tarasque

If it looks like a Bowser, bites like a Bowser, and scratches like a Bowser, it's either a Bowser or it's the Tarasque. If it sings like a Bowser then it's probably a Jack Black.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age.

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Disclaimer: https://myths.link/444
Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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🎵 Music Credits

Didion by Blue Dot Sessions
Corner at Mirabel by Blue Dot Sessions
Gilbert by Breakmaster Cylinder
World 4 - Trees by Breakmaster Cylinder
Pixelwash Synthwaves by Breakmaster Cylinder
Sequin Lobster by Breakmaster Cylinder

🕷️Spiders don't have tails, but this one has tales. 

Anansi is one of the most famous folklore tricksters in the world, but we'll see that behind every great trickster...is likely a trail of broken and/or angry people who want to get even.

😈 The Creature: Tsuchinoko 

People are crazy about this chonky snake. I honestly don't even get it.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age.

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Source: https://myths.link/anansi
Myths and Legends YouTube: https://myths.link/youtube
Tsuchinoko on TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tsuchinoko

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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📢 Sponsors

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🎵 Music Credits

Motherless Brooklyn by Breakmaster Cylinder
Signs in the Snow by Breakmaster Cylinder
Driptape by Blue Dot Sessions
Mazzaorra by Blue Dot Sessions
Patched In by Blue Dot Sessions
Basal Fife by Blue Dot Sessions

🔱It's Poseidon's turn.

On the podcast. Not to be king of the gods. He's actually totally not mad that his little brother is king. Because Zeus isn't the king of him. But Poseidon does do everything his brother says. Not because Zeus told him to, though. He just planned to do it anyway, so no problem.

😈 The Creature: The Alan

Just don't boil Alan's kids and you're good.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age.

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Disclaimer: https://myths.link/442
Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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🎵 Music Credits

Just Leave Me Submerged by Breakmaster Cylinder
Lake Ditty by Blue Dot Sessions
Pinky by Blue Dot Sessions
Steamboater by Blue Dot Sessions
ick. by Breakmaster Cylinder

🗡️If at first you don't succeed, die, die again.

Ian's had a hard life. That life gets even more difficult when he falls in love with a woman who is (not-so-secretly) a deer. And who makes him eat her earwax.

😈 The Creature: The Charles Mill Lake Monster

This week, the state of Ohio flexes its greatest (super)natural resource: quirky cryptids.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age.

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Disclaimer: https://myths.link/441
Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Source: https://myths.link/source
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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📢 Sponsors

Quince: Upgrade your everyday. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, or go to https://quince.com/legends. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK, too.

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🎵 Music Credits

Salmony by Blue Dot Sessions
Another Love Song from the Corner by Breakmaster Cylinder
8Bit Sadventure Time by Breakmaster Cylinder
Nightwatch Beetles by Breakmaster Cylinder
Sadly Here We Are Again by Breakmaster Cylinder
Lessita by Blue Dot Sessions

🐒 Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, knows a demon shakedown when he sees it.

And what's happening in this town, where people need to pay upwards of $30k (in 2026 USD) a year to a Buddha they never see? That's a shakedown. Does his master, the Tang Monk, believe him? Of course he doesn't.

😈 The Creature: Man-dragon

Hey, just because man-dragon knows something bad is about to happen and shows up there ahead of time doesn't mean he's obligated to tell you the bad thing that's going to happen.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age.

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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🎵 Music Credits

A Peaceful Plummet by Breakmaster Cylinder
Spheres of Doom by Breakmaster Cylinder
Damn Yea, Shebeasts! by Breakmaster Cylinder
Dislotec - Pitbull by Breakmaster Cylinder
Embers Bounce Around You on the Way Downward by Breakmaster Cylinder
Elmore Heights by Blue Dot Sessions

✏️Gaṅgâdhara's astrologer dad has some bad news for his boy: he's going to die.

Well, first he'll spend a decade in prison, and then die. Then things will get better? It's the story of the Soothsayer's Son.

😈 The Creature: Denpachi Kitsune

Are you sure the best student in your school isn't a secret monster? Really? Ok, then, it's probably just Denpachi.

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🎉 The Giveaway!

From now until July 24th, 2026, Our awesome publisher is giving away 15 early copies of For the King, book one of Myths and Legends's comprehensive version of the King Arthur legends. The winners of the giveaway can read their very own free physical copy months before it even goes on sale! Enter to win here: https://myths.link/giveaway

📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age. 

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37002/pg37002-images.html#ch3
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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📢 Sponsors

Home Chef: For a limited time, Home Chef is offering my listeners 50% off and free shipping for your first box plus free dessert for life! Go to https://homechef.com/legends

BetterHelp: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Don't let stigma stand in the way of support. Sign up and get 10% off at https://betterhelp.com/myths

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🎵 Music Credits

India Melody by Breakmaster Cylinder
Lovin You is Easy Cause You're Chewable by Breakmaster Cylinder
Time's Arrow by Breakmaster Cylinder
On a Straight Down Train Car by Breakmaster Cylinder
Etude 1 Cherub by Breakmaster Cylinder
Izeah by Blue Dot Sessions

🏝️No one has seen or heard about Maui for quite some time

Meanwhile, all these strange portents are leading disparate groups to a faraway island, all the while there are ominous tales spoken in whispers. It's probably ok, right? I mean, it's Maui. He's always looking out for us.

Right?

😈 The Creature: Menehune

They'll build things for you (out of love), or they'll shoot you (also out of love?) but you better not watch them do either.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age.

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Disclaimer: https://myths.link/438
Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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📢 Sponsors

Mint Mobile: To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://mintmobile.com/legends.

Home Chef: For a limited time, Home Chef is offering my listeners 50% off and free shipping for your first box plus free dessert for life! Go to https://homechef.com/legends

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🎵 Music Credits

Woke up at the Aquarium by Breakmaster Cylinder
Bitter Bit by Blue Dot Sessions
Runway 12 by Blue Dot Sessions
Depths of Field Retreating by Blue Dot Sessions
Pelly's Overture by Blue Dot Sessions
A Aecollection by Blue Dot Sessions

🍼 If your parent goes through the trouble of getting you superpowers...

Kind of the least you can do is get them a new house. And fight all the dragons infesting that house. And get their increasingly specific and dangerous medical treatments for their very real and not made-up illnesses.

😈 The Creature: Sisimito

I did not know the Soviets had a secret program to create Chimpanzee-human hybrid. That's almost unrelated to the Sisimito. Almost.

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📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age. 

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Source: https://myths.link/victorious
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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🎵 Music Credits

this is where I leave you by Breakmaster Cylinder
snails attack! by Breakmaster Cylinder
An Egg-Shaped Room For Your Thoughts by Breakmaster Cylinder
Building Blocks B by Breakmaster Cylinder
Our Names Engraved by Blue Dot Sessions

🪱Mr. Worm is getting married! That (not creepy) stranger is looking in your windows! Shin is driving tired!

Five interconnected stories from Korean folklore about letting people know the real you. And 

😈 The Creature: Duergar

If you're at risk of being beaten up by the Duergar, no offense, but you're probably already breaking several rules of the Myths and Legends podcast

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🎉 The Giveaway!

From now through June 14th, 2026, Our awesome publisher is giving away 35 early copies of For the King, book one of Myths and Legends's comprehensive version of the King Arthur legends. The winners of the giveaway can read their very own free physical copy months before it even goes on sale! Enter to win here: https://myths.link/giveaway2

📖 The Book!

Myths and Legends has our first book coming out on December 1st! FOR THE KING is a comprehensive retelling of Arthurian legend, focused on humanity and written for the modern age. 

If you like the podcast, you'll love the book, and preorders are a massive help to us.  Check it out here: https://myths.link/preorder

🔗 Links:

Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership
Myths and Legends YouTube:https://myths.link/youtube

💬 Social:

Discord: https://myths.link/discord
Instagram: https://myths.link/instagram
Bluesky: https://myths.link/bluesky

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📢 Sponsors

Home Chef: For a limited time, Home Chef is offering my listeners 50% off and free shipping for your first box plus free dessert for life! Go to https://homechef.com/legends

Quince: Elevate your summer wardrobe. Head to https://quince.com/legends for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too.

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🎵 Music Credits

A Dolphin Most Serious by Breakmaster Cylinder
Beef Strokinoff by Breakmaster Cylinder
Catbus Catbus Where You Been by Breakmaster Cylinder
Big Stupid Wolly, PI by Breakmaster Cylinder
A Pathetic Moment by Blue Dot Sessions
Genesis Valley by Blue Dot Sessions
Gilded Frames by Blue Dot Sessions