Happy Halloween, friends of the Jester.

This year’s special comes from deep in the shadowed corners of the Balkans — a 9th-century ballad known in Greece as The Song of the Dead Brother, with haunting cousins in Serbia and Bulgaria. Nothing sets the Halloween mood quite like Balkan folklore — mournful, gothic, and just a little too close to the bone. It isn’t funny. It isn’t light.

It’s a tale about oaths and the ruin they bring, and how a mother’s grief can shake the dead.

This is also the first ever Court Jester episode told entirely on video. You can watch it on YouTube or Patreon.

If you like your medieval tales with a touch of the macabre, this one’s for you.

Happy haunting!

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