345: Welsh legends: Fetch Quest
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The creature this week is the Hydrus, who is not the Lernian Hydra, of Heracles fame, but it does get a second act as a Biblical metaphor.
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| 0:00.0 | Quick disclaimer there is some stronger than usual violence at the end of this week's episode. |
| 0:04.0 | Please see the post on myth podcast.com for more info. |
| 0:07.0 | This week on myths and legends it's the story of Kilhookin-Alwin from Welsh folklore. |
| 0:11.7 | We'll see how witch blood is apparently a wonder in next to your office chair. The creature this week is a little monster snake |
| 0:23.8 | that gets mistaken for a celebrity monster snake, |
| 0:26.5 | and that just makes it sad. |
| 0:28.6 | This is mythsths and Legends episode 345, fetch quest. This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:48.0 | Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins |
| 0:52.0 | and others are stories that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen. |
| 0:55.6 | Today we're back in Welsh folklore with stories from the Mabinogian. |
| 0:59.2 | In today's story, while technically more of a King Arthur story than any, this is Welsh King Arthur, the original King Arthur. |
| 1:06.0 | This does exist outside of our current narrative and what the story of King Arthur had grown into in English and French tales. |
| 1:12.0 | Today we're going back to Wales with a mystical... had grown into in English and French tales. |
| 1:12.7 | Today we're going back to Wales with a mystical, bizarre, and wonderful love story |
| 1:17.8 | that includes entirely too much attempted murder. Hey, so, um, weird thing maybe, but I found your baby, the swinehertz said, as he held up the baby. |
| 1:42.1 | It had been a strange decade for the people of Klid's Kingdom. |
| 1:46.3 | And by the way, the name of this king is like the one name I was not able to get help with |
| 1:50.0 | this week, so sorry if that's super incorrect or if all of them are. The people were |
| 1:54.1 | all super invested in the king and queen having an air so the whole country |
| 1:58.1 | prayed constantly if the queen thought that the entire land pinning all their hopes on this and keeping up to date and being critical of every single bit of news that came out of the palace, was stressful, well, she only had to wait until she became pregnant. Infant mortality in the middle ages was shockingly high, like 20 to 30 percent. |
| 2:18.0 | Everyone was coming at her with tips and things to do and not do and why was she doing that didn't she care about the baby and |
| 2:24.3 | she snapped unable or unwilling to take all that she ran off |
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