This week on Myths and Legends, we're finishing up the story of Mowgli from the Jungle Book.

We'll see the most dangerous way to get a new coat and how being a horrible,

arrogant jerk to everyone and everything might come back to haunt you.

The creature this week is a tiny werewolf with terrible breath.

Who loves piggyback rides?

This is Myths and Legends, Episode 130c, an old war.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.

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

Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening.

This has become Myths and Legends, it's our third installment of our take on Mowgli

and his adventures in the jungle.

Last week Mowgli stood up to Shirecon, the tiger that I've been hunting him since he was a baby.

He brought the red flower or fire into the jungle, thus killing himself shunned by his wolf pack,

and forcing him to go to the human villages for protection against the burned and shamed,

though very much still alive, Shirecon.

I should also mention that I made a mistake last week.

I thought the wolves elected a new leader, but they did not.

So they'd been leaderless ever since Mowgli destroyed their most important traditions by

demanding they keep their old leader, Akilah, alive and retirement.

In the stillness of the night, a seasoned hunter trembled, not much could make him shake,

but a thumping from deep within the shadows made his heart race.

It was him, the man-eater.

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