137-Italian folklore: Tailor-made

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, Arts, Books, History

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Young Dionigi is an apprentice to the master tailor, Maestro Lattantio. It’s a good job and, frankly, the best one he could get. The problem? He wants a better one. He wants to be a wizard. His boss wants him to get back to work. The mamlambo is the reason why you don’t want to date the guy you grew in a jar. -- Sponsors: Go to SimpliSafe.com/LEGENDS to check out an awesome home security system Want to help out the show? Go to http://podsurvey.com/myths -- Check out Hello from the Magic Tavern at http://hellofromthemagictavern.com -- Music: “So It Goes” by Podington Bear “Pounded Piano” by Podington Bear “Tiptoe Treadline” by Blue Dot Sessions “Rainday” by Blue Dot Sessions “Our Only Lark” by Blue Dot Sessions “Elmore Heights” by Blue Dot Sessions

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0:00.0	This week, I'm Myths and Legends.
0:02.0	It's the story of a boy with a dream, to be the greatest wizard of all time, and his boss.
0:07.0	Who really just wants him to get back to work?
0:10.0	And stop saying, wizard so loud and medieval Italy.
0:13.0	The great of this week is the reason why, no matter how lonely you are, you do not want to start dating that snake that you made in your basement.
0:20.0	This is Myths and Legends, episode 137, Taylor Made.
0:34.0	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:37.0	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:42.0	Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth losing.
0:46.0	There's not too much to say about today's story.
0:48.0	It's an Italian literary fairy tale, and was written by Giovanni Francisco Straperola in 1555.
0:55.0	He was the original writer of Pus and Boots, and a lot of his stories were eventually retold in Vassile's tale of tales and by the Grimbrothers.
1:02.0	In the book, called the Fesitius Knights of Straperola, is considered to be the first European book to contain fairy tales.
1:08.0	Anyway, we'll get on with it.
1:10.0	Set in the late Middle Ages, in Sicily, D&EG, the Master Taylor's apprentice has a request of his boss.
1:26.0	I want to learn magic.
1:29.0	D&EG announced to his tutor, Mastro Latin Teo.
1:33.0	Mastro Latin Teo didn't even look up from his French seam.
1:36.0	Yeah, didn't everybody.
1:39.0	I'll get back to work.
1:41.0	D&EG's dad wasn't paying literally his bottom dollar for D&EG to sit here and annoy his teacher.
1:47.0	Well, that wasn't entirely true.
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