167-Nutcracker: Cracked

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week, it is the insane original story behind the popular holiday ballet. In this story for children, we'll get some contradictory lessons for the kids. Getting into a van with a stranger offering candy? Bad. Getting into a silver carriage with a man offering a whole magical world full of candy? Awesome (not really - seriously, kids don't do that). In a podcast full of problematic and wildly different original tellings of popular adaptations, this might be the most different and most problematic. The creature this week is a haggard old woman who travels from town to town letting kids know if they're on the naughty list...using her knife and a bag full of garbage. -- Sponsors: Get 25% off PLUS a free camera by going to http://simplisafe.com/legends. Offer ends 12/31/2019! -- Music: "Hard Won" by Podington Bear "Dowl" by Podington Bear "March on Gumdrop Field" by Blue Dot Sessions "Plum King" by Blue Dot Sessions "Caprese" by Blue Dot Sessions "Curious Case" by Blue Dot Sessions

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0:00.0	This week on Myths and Legends, it's the original story behind the Nutcracker.
0:04.5	And we'll finally have an answer to that age old question, what if our toys came to life?
0:10.9	And we're also attracted to children.
0:13.6	Yeah, it gets weird this week.
0:17.6	The creature this week is a Christmas creature who will let you know if you've been naughty,
0:22.2	and shall use her knife to do so.
0:30.5	This is Myths and Legends, episode 167.
0:34.0	Cracked.
0:39.2	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:42.4	Some are incredibly popular stories with surprising origins, like today's, and other
0:46.7	stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening.
0:50.4	Today's story is the literary fairy tale, behind the adaptation, behind the famous ballet.
0:55.5	We're going to jump right in because it's a long episode.
0:58.4	Basically all you need to know is that we're in Germany in the early 1800s, with the
1:02.2	well-to-do star bomb family on Christmas Eve.
1:20.1	Rory Staubaum and her brother, Fritz, rushed out to see the presence under the tree, the
1:25.6	one stuffed with candy almonds, fruit, and lit candles.
1:30.0	It was Christmas Eve 1800-something, and they had just seen the shadow of the Christ
1:34.9	kind, the Christ child, come and go, with that being the baby Jesus that flies in the
1:40.4	house as he gives children presents on Christmas Eve.
1:43.4	Fritz got a whole legion of army guys, a fortress, a cannon, and a wooden hobby horse he
1:47.9	could ride around the room on, shouting orders at his guys, and a heavily romanticized
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