103-Middle Eastern Folklore: Shipshape

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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A story about a king and his garden...that somehow turns into a story with genies, witches, boats full of male models, guys getting boiled alive, angry kitties, and secret agent mice. It's the story of the bronze ring, as collected by Scottish writer Andrew Lang. The creature this time just wants to pop on by your hut for a beer and maybe turn you into an undying goblin. Because he likes you so much. --- Sponsors: Don't forget to watch Krypton March 21st at 10pm (9pm Central) on Syfy! Check out http://www.linkedin.com/myths for $50 off your first job posting. Post your job where 22 million professionals go weekly. People matter: choose LinkedIn --- Fictional on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.fictional.fm Fictional on Stitcher: http://stitcher.fictional.fm Fictional on Spotify: http://spotify.fictional.fm --- Music: "Cicle Ariel" by Blue Dot Sessions "Nuthatch" by Blue Dot Sessions "The Molerat" by Blue Dot Sessions "Lime Beat" by Podington Bear "Lamb" by Podington Bear "Two Faces" by Podington Bear "Soldier's Story" by Podington Bear "Smack" by Podington Bear

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0:00.0	This week, I'm Myths and Legends. It's a story from Middle East in folklore.
0:04.2	What do a genie, a mouse suicide pact, a boat full of male models, and way too many
0:09.0	feral cats have in common? Well, absolutely nothing. But they're all somehow in this story.
0:14.7	The Grisha this week is a relentlessly stupid goblin, who just might trick you into living your best life.
0:20.4	This is Myths and Legends, episode 103. Ship shape.
0:34.4	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly popular
0:39.0	stories you'd think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories that might be new to you,
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1:01.0	This week I'm Myths and Legends. It's a story from the folklore of the Middle East. I actually
1:05.6	wish I could give more of a background. It was collected by Scottish Rider Andrew Lang.
1:09.6	And though it's obviously from the Middle East, we don't know much more. Lang didn't give an
1:14.0	introduction, and he actually got it from a French collection of stories. It's a fairy tale,
1:18.2	so it's set in a soul tonight in the late Middle Ages. Oh, and also Lang kind of uses King
1:23.0	and Sultan interchangeably and listening back, it's a mistake that slipped through my writing too.
1:27.6	So basically anytime I say King, I mean Sultan.
1:30.5	Standing before the window, the King finally recognized that he had a problem. His gardens were not
1:46.1	in bloom or existence. It was well known that the area surrounding his kingdom was a wasteland.
1:52.8	And he could now see that it boiled down to a staffing issue. All of his guys? Well,
1:58.4	they were just pulled off the streets and told him to make stuff grow. Seeing as that didn't work
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