236-French Fairy Tale: Piece of Cake
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're in French fairy tales with queen who prepared her daughter for the world a little too well, and to the queen's despair she doesn't want to marry, choosing to rely instead on her own strength and judgement. Oh, and also there are griffin fights, dragons, sphinxes, giant turkey chariots, evil fairies, and cat-riding mythological dwarves. It's a big week.
The creature is a toad full of hate. And also full of rainbow breath.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Myths and Legends, it's a French fairy tale about parenthood, love, and deadly |
| 0:06.4 | fairies riding chariots pulled by giant turkeys. You'll see why the best offense against lions |
| 0:11.5 | is cake and how a picture message can drive you insane. On the creature of the week, we'll see how |
| 0:17.5 | your pet toad might just be a few years away from breathing rainbow smoke and turning you into a kabab. |
| 0:39.1 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly |
| 0:43.5 | popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories that |
| 0:47.8 | might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening. The story this week is a literary fairy tale. |
| 0:53.5 | First told by writer Madame Dol Nois in the 1600s, a countless famous for her fairy tales. |
| 0:59.6 | She was a very prolific French writer and we'll talk a little bit about her life at the end of |
| 1:03.5 | the episode. But right now, we'll just jump right into the story of a queen who's trying to raise |
| 1:08.7 | a confident daughter and kind of over succeeding. |
| 1:24.0 | The queen's servants look through the letters. Uh, okay, updates. The queen sat back, |
| 1:29.6 | an excited, expecting grin on her face. All right guys, let's hear them. How many marriage |
| 1:35.7 | proposals did her 15 year old daughter have after they sent out the portraits of her? A lot? |
| 1:42.1 | Too many? None? The servant mumbled. In fact, the portraits were having kind of the opposite |
| 1:51.9 | effect. The kings of the snowy mountain and golden plains, well, they just got out of the hospital. |
| 1:58.4 | Hospital. The queen blurted. The messenger smiled. Yeah, they were some of the lucky ones. |
| 2:05.5 | You see, our queen here was a widow and as we know from folklore, there are two ways this can go. |
| 2:13.8 | If the father of a daughter is a widower, he remarries, fades into the background, |
| 2:18.9 | and an abusive stepmother takes over and makes the daughter live in an attic and talk to mice and stuff. |
| 2:24.7 | If the mother survives, she holds on to power by sheer strength of will and puts her daughter first, |
| 2:31.5 | preparing the girl to rule. The queen kind of over corrected, though. She left her daughter |
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