262-Japanese Folklore: Fatal Attraction

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, Arts, Books, History

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Three stories from Japan about love gone wrong. On the first, the fairest youth in all the land is set to marry the daughter of a rich noble. The problem? His father kind of oversold his looks... On the second, we'll see why moths and other nighttime bugs go toward the light, and on the third, a lovelorn samurai meets a woman from his past he thought was long gone.

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0:10.8	The hatchet came so fast that I don't think I had time to think but when it hit my head
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1:02.6	The creature this week is a one-eyed deer who really wants you to take the hint and stop
1:09.1	shooting it.
1:16.3	This is Myths and Legends, episode 262, fatal attraction.
1:26.2	This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.
1:29.8	Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know but with surprising origins.
1:34.4	Others are stories that might be new to you but are definitely worth listening.
1:38.3	This week there are three stories of love gone wrong from Japan.
1:42.1	On the first we'll see a father walking with his son as the young man is going to meet
1:46.2	the woman who will be his wife for the first time but what the son doesn't know is that
1:51.4	his father has a secret.
1:54.0	And of a lot of them actually, we'll jump in mid-journey.
2:06.3	The father walked with his son.
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