This week, I'm Myths and Legends. There are more stories of Jack the Giant Slayer.

Well, you'll learn that if someone walks into your house with,

I'm gonna kill you, written on their belt, you should probably believe them,

and don't offer them a room. You'll also learn how you can make a lot of friends

standing outside of town, yelling, free money.

I know, shocking, right? The creature this week is one that will both eat everything valuable you own,

and also feel bad about it. Not because it stole from you,

but because of its horrible constipation.

This is Myths and Legends, episode 157. Giant Problems.

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, and other stories that might be new to you,

but are definitely worth a listen. I like the story of Jack the Giant Killer.

Not just because it typifies the literature of the Middle Ages,

and its ridiculous violence in memorable characters.

But because of how it begs the question of what it means to be a hero,

Jack's first heroic act was an accident.

But the whole countryside lauded the killing of Kormoron,

the Giant who had been pillaging their fields.

This second was dumb luck. When he happened to hang two giants with the same rope,

after they had him in prison, we'll pick up what we left off in episode 97,

with Jack back traveling. After fortuitously hanging two giants at once,

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