This week on Myths and Legends, it's the story of an evil hippo, and the hero that stands

against him.

You'll learn how making friends with your local dog walker can help you fight monsters,

and how if Pokemon actually existed, the world would be a terrifying and brutal place.

The creature is the bobbamick, a bloodthirsty monster who learns that the most terrifying

thing of all is raising children.

This is Myths and Legends, episode 241, HIP APATA MASTER.

This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins.

Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listening.

This week it's a standalone story from the Sorko people.

One of the people groups who was part of the Songhai Empire, and this group was known

for their fishing ability on the Niger River.

The Songhai Empire was in West Africa and reached its peak around the 15th or 16th century,

so maybe we can place this story then, but it's not really connected to anything historical,

so don't really worry about it.

We'll jump in with a hippo that has been terrorizing a village and a young man, hired to take

him down.

The young man crouched in the tall grass, surrounding the Niger River, watching the

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The river horse.

It was larger than he expected, but he had killed bigger.

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