This week, on the Mythos and Legends podcast, we're finishing up the current run of King Arthur's

stories. You will learn that, unsurprisingly, un-invisible night is very difficult to fight,

especially if you can't stop crying long enough to get a good look. Also, you'll see why it's a

bad idea to stab someone in the groin with a holy relic. Then, on the creatures of the week,

it's another tragic dog death, from little naked people buried just beneath a common plant.

This is the Mythos and Legends podcast, episode 27-C, The Errant Night.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from folklore. Some are incredibly popular stories you

think you know, but with surprising origins. Others have stories you might not have heard,

but really should. This is the third and final part of a short series on King Arthur.

If this is your first time here in the podcast, this particular story starts with 27A.

One quick correction. The city I've been calling Carlyon is, according to a listener,

pronounced C.I.L.M. Stotal know if I'm getting that right. Also, I've been told that the place

King Arthur was conceived is actually pronounced Tintagel, not Tintagel or whatever I've been saying.

Some people on Twitter in the comments joked around about Plina drinking game,

where you take a drink every time I apologize for mispronunciation.

Don't do that. It happens so much in the early episodes that you might die.

Previously on the podcast, King Arthur drew the sword from the stone and became high king of

England. He quelled a rebellion led by King Lot and then had an affair with King Lot's wife,

who turned out to be his half sister, conceiving the very person who may later kill him.

Arthur obtained the legendary sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, who showed up at his

court demanding he make good on his agreement to fulfill a favor for choosing. Despite Arthur's

pledge to protect the Lady of the Lake, she was beheaded by Balon, another knight who had

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