316-French Fairy Tales: Right Meow
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Maybe? But if what you're willing to give up is your child and the thing you desire is fruit from the garden...maybe rethink your priorities. It's the story of "The White Cat" by Madame d'Aulnoy, and in addition to questionable parenting, there are quests, dwarves that are just doing their job, evil fairies, and cat ballet.
The creature this time is Adar Llwch Gwin, a pet that's probably too obedient
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"Feeling Fine" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Quick disclaimer, some minor pet-related violence toward the end of the episode this week. |
| 0:04.6 | It's not graphic at all, but it's there. |
| 0:06.8 | Please see the post on mythpodcast.com for more information. |
| 0:10.8 | This week on Myths and Legends, it's a French fairy tale of love, loss, dragons, |
| 0:16.8 | tiny handsome puppies, cat orchestras, and kings who need to brush their teeth. |
| 0:21.8 | The great to this week is why you want to train your griffin, but not so well that it listens to you |
| 0:27.0 | without question and tears you to pieces. |
| 0:35.6 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 316. Right now. |
| 0:44.1 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:47.6 | Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 0:51.9 | Others are stories that might be new to you that are definitely worth losing. |
| 0:55.7 | The story today is a literary fairy tale that comes from the 17th century |
| 0:59.6 | French writer Marie Catherine de Jumeaux de Barreville Baroness Tholnoi. |
| 1:04.4 | The person who actually coined the phrase fairy tale. |
| 1:07.4 | We've told a few stories by her, most famously episode 236, |
| 1:11.7 | Piece of Cake, which more than a few people have written to us saying it's their favorite episode. |
| 1:16.2 | We're not really going to go into Madame Tholnoi's life, but it's notable in that, |
| 1:20.1 | after a couple of mere curial spouses, later on in life she managed to support herself |
| 1:24.8 | and her three daughters on her writing. Her stories were told conversational and informally, |
| 1:30.0 | like a certain podcast, and they were not specifically for children. |
| 1:34.9 | Anyway, that's enough backstory. We'll jump into today's story with a queen who wants that fruit tree. |
| 1:41.9 | The queen looked over the wall. Yeah, those were some pretty epic fruit trees. |
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