228-Italian Folklore: Full Circle
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Two stories from the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who earns the title of one of the earliest fairy tale writers, putting tales down to paper in the 1500s. On the first, you'll learn that you can't con an honest man...and that you really shouldn't, because the honest man three con men do trick out of a mule comes back for vengeance...and beats the con men at their own game.
On the second story, three men are proudly lazy and make a bet to see who can be the laziest scoundrel. They all try to win...by failing.
The creature is a Bannick! He wants to watch you take a bath!
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"New Skin" by Podington Bear
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| 0:00.0 | There's a brief disclaimer this week. |
| 0:02.0 | There's some stronger than usual violence and some adult stuff. |
| 0:05.0 | Please check out the post on mythpodcast.com for more information. |
| 0:09.0 | This week, on Myths and Legends, there are two stories from Italian folklore. |
| 0:13.6 | On the first, we'll see that goat butlers make the best butlers. |
| 0:17.1 | If you know they exist, and on the second, why, if you have trash water dripping on your |
| 0:21.7 | eye, maybe roll over. |
| 0:23.9 | Who knows though, I'm not a doctor. |
| 0:25.5 | The creature this week is a hairy little weirdo. |
| 0:27.8 | Who's the reason you'll be taking a bath in the kitchen from now on? |
| 0:38.0 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 228, full circle. |
| 0:47.3 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:50.7 | Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 0:55.5 | There's stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening. |
| 0:59.5 | This week, there are two stories from the Italian writer Straperola, and they were put |
| 1:04.0 | down to paper in the 1500s. |
| 1:05.6 | A collection known as the facetious nights, or the pleasant nights. |
| 1:09.8 | It's a fairly off-the-wall collection of fairy tales that went on to influence other |
| 1:13.9 | collections down the road. |
| 1:15.2 | There are two stories of people going full circle, and the first, we'll start with an elderly |
| 1:20.1 | priest who is getting really tired of walking everywhere. |
| 1:36.5 | Scarpa Fiko's feet ate. |
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