This week, on Myths and Legends, it's a story from the Grim Brothers, and it's a tale of love,

family, abandonment, and even mythological creatures with terrible yelp ratings.

You'll learn all about settling legal disputes for giants for fun and profit,

and how the most beautiful love stories begin with the person you love watching

strangers beat you mercilessly for three days.

The creature this time is a myth-pog cat.

They're just super cute cats dancing on their hind legs, inviting you to a cat dance party,

which might end with you finding love or being drained of your blood and set on fire.

This is Myths and Legends, Episode 121, King of the Mountain.

This is a podcast right now tells stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories, you'd think you know, but with surprising origins.

Others have stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen.

Today's stories from the Grim Brothers, and, like many other stories, was collected in what is

now Germany in the early 1800s. It's a fairy tale, so we'll just jump right in.

The rich merchant had been a rich merchant until about ten minutes ago.

Well, in reality it had been weeks. Maybe months since the ship's carrying nearly everything

you owned were consumed by the sea, but you'd only learned about it ten minutes ago.

That's why he was currently out sitting in his field. That land was the last thing you owned,

mainly because it was nearly worthless and also mainly because it was really difficult to

load a whole field onto a ship. His children, a baby boy and girl, rolled around in the grass by

side. Neither could walk yet. The father grimaced. His kids would never know the life he had planned for

them. Their mother had died in childbirth, and now he was alone, with two children, no money,

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