123-Dark Tower: Directions

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A game turns dark as a child disappears. Her brothers must follow her into a land that's like a mirror image of our own to get her back from the king who lives in the dark tower. Oh and also Merlin is barely any help at all. The creature this time is the ilomba, from Zambia, and it's a terrible reason to collect your fingernail clippings. -- Sponsors: I've been a fan of Simplisafe for as long as I've been a customer - over two years now. Check them out at http://www.simplisafe.com/legends Casper is the most comfortable mattress I've ever used. I did the math - you spend a quarter million hours on your mattress over your life, you should be comfortable. Check out http://www.casper.com/legends, offer code LEGENDS for fifty dollars off your mattress purchase. -- The Stephen King Quote: https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2017/08/how-did-stephen-king-to-the-dark-tower-come-through-robert-brownings-childe-roland/ --

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0:00.0	This week, on Myths and Legends, it's the story of child Roland in the Dark Tower.
0:04.6	We'll follow Roland's quest to the Dark Tower, see Merlin continue to only be helpful when he
0:09.2	feels like it, and see why you should never walk counterclockwise around a church.
0:13.4	Then, on the creature of the week, you'll see why you should be saving your fingernail clippings.
0:17.2	It's so you can make a little baby. That might just eat your soul.
0:21.0	This is Myths and Legends, Episode 123, Directions.
0:35.8	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:38.9	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:43.5	Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening.
0:47.2	Today, it's the story of child Roland in the Dark Tower.
0:50.0	A story probably most famous for inspiring Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
0:54.4	Though I think that his was based more off the Robert Browning poem than this particular fairy tale.
0:58.9	Anyway, I don't want to give too much away, so we'll just talk about the differences between the
1:03.2	two main versions after I actually finish the story.
1:13.9	What? Child Roland said, throwing up his hands while running a wide victory lap.
1:18.8	Did you all see that? Did you see that?
1:22.8	His sister, Ellen, replied that yes. Yes, they did.
1:27.9	You kicked a ball. Congratulations.
1:31.4	Yeah, over the church, Roland beinged.
1:35.2	Ellen rolled her eyes again. Yeah, they saw. It was great.
1:41.2	Except that wasn't really the goal, was it? They were all taking the ball back and forth,
1:45.9	and he just launched it over a building. And okay, he was still doing a victory dance.
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