179-Slavic legends: Grateful Dead

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A classic quest from Slavic legend with princesses, dragons, wizards, dragons fighting wizards, and princesses fighting wizards fighting dragons. The creature is Shamir, the little craftsman who is up for employee of the millennium. -- Post: https://www.mythpodcast.com/14197/179-slavic-legends-grateful-dead/ Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership Store: https://www.mythpodcast.com/store -- Sponsor: Talk to a therapist online and get help at http://betterhelp.com/legends. Save 10% off your first month with the discount code LEGENDS -- Music: "Solemn Oath" by Podington Bear "Setting Out on a Quest" by Bobby Cole "The French Theatre of Doom" by Bobby Cole “Big Feelings” by Podington Bear "Storm Passing" by Podington Bear "Pounded Piano" by Podington Bear “Winter Walk” by Podington Bear

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0:00.0	This week on Myths and Legends, we are in a classic story from Slavic folklore, and you'll
0:05.9	see why there's no better wingman than a wizard, especially when dating involves fighting
0:10.6	actual dragons.
0:12.4	The great to this time is a tiny craftsman, and a lesson about why you shouldn't let
0:16.7	demons staff your HR department.
0:24.8	This is Myths and Legends, episode 179, Grateful Dead.
0:33.9	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:37.1	Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:41.5	Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen.
0:45.2	The story this week is a classic Slavic fairy tale, set in Russia in the Middle Ages.
0:50.3	There are dragons, wizards, monsters, and a czar who doesn't want his son to die.
0:56.2	The youngest, he doesn't want his youngest son to die.
0:58.4	He doesn't really care about the older too.
1:09.2	This is our sat down with the youngest son.
1:11.8	So you want to go out there, fight monsters and see the world, like your two older brothers,
1:17.6	young man grand, more than anything.
1:21.2	This is our take a deep breath.
1:23.0	Look, when I was a kid, I loved the patriarchal system, or firstborns get to be the king with
1:29.2	no qualifications whatsoever.
1:32.4	I was all about it.
1:33.8	Now that I'm on the other side of it though, oh so many problems, like think about it.
1:38.8	I'm supposed to hand off my kingdom to someone who has never had to work for anything ever,
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