196-Reynard the Fox: Chaotic Good
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
A reboot, of sorts, of Reynard the Fox, everyone's favorite brutal, amoral trickster. I found a much older, much more nuanced version of the fox's stories. Today, we meet his father, get an origin story, and see him trying to make things right in a society run by predators...or is he working a long con to eat all the animals in his charge? With Reynard, we never really know.
The creature this week is the Talasam, who will very politely ask you for a human sacrifice.
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| 0:00.0 | This week, on Myths and Legends, we're back in the stories of Renard the Fox, |
| 0:04.2 | with a bit of a reboot, based on a completely different, much older collection. |
| 0:09.1 | We'll learn how to use a goat as a fishing pole, and that maybe you should follow that creature |
| 0:14.0 | that wants to eat you into the dark forest. That's protection from all those other creatures who |
| 0:18.9 | also want to eat you. The creature this week is a hairy, big-headed snake, who's very polite. |
| 0:31.3 | This is Myths and Legends, Episode 196. |
| 0:34.8 | Chaotic Good. |
| 0:40.3 | This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly |
| 0:44.4 | popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories that |
| 0:49.2 | might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening. We're back in the Renard Tales. |
| 0:54.1 | Now, we've told a version of the Renard Tales once on this podcast, and they are beautiful |
| 0:59.1 | and wonderful. I mean, they're horrifying and extremely graphic. Do they like if Redwall had |
| 1:03.8 | the morality and violence of Game of Thrones? Renard the Fox, as we know him, is, well, he's |
| 1:10.1 | terrible. He's 100% an amoral opportunist. He likes to see the bad guys in the Hippocrits |
| 1:16.7 | get what's coming to them, but he'll also tear an innocent animal pilgrim to pieces, if he can |
| 1:22.0 | get his claws on them. That Renard became so popular in the Middle Ages that, according to one |
| 1:27.3 | source I found, the French word for Fox became Renard, and not the other way around, as I thought. |
| 1:32.9 | Anyway, the Renard from the stories we told back in 105 AMB is not this Renard though. |
| 1:40.1 | In my research, I was able to find a different Renard. This Renard is from the earliest version, |
| 1:46.2 | a 12th century beast epic originally written in Latin. The Renard in that tale… well, |
| 1:52.1 | I don't want to ruin anything, but he has many more shades of grey, and I personally like him a |
| 1:57.6 | lot better than the straight evil opportunist Renard. We'll dive in. But first I want to open |
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