352: French folklore: The Darling Formerly Known as Prince
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The creature this week is Lamia! She will pull out her own eyeballs and eat your children, but she also has a budding career in the movies?
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| 0:00.0 | This week on myths and legends, it's a French fairy tale. |
| 0:03.2 | We'll see that if to be good, you need jewelry to stab you, |
| 0:07.8 | you probably have a long road ahead. |
| 0:10.4 | The creature this week is an unfortunate recipient of Zeus and Harris punishment, who apparently has gone on to have a thriving movie and music career. This is Myth and Legends episode 352, the Darling formerly known as Prince. This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:38.0 | Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 0:42.0 | Others are stories that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen. |
| 0:45.7 | The story this week is from 18th century of France, |
| 0:48.4 | before things got bad in 18th century France. |
| 0:51.8 | The story is by Jean-Marie Le Princeronse de Beaumont. We'll talk more |
| 0:55.1 | about her in her history at the end, but we will jump in with the king who's just |
| 0:58.8 | back from a hunt with a surprise. I got a rabbit! The king declared when he came back home you mean you killed a |
| 1:17.2 | rabbit the advisor asked no why would I do that the The king looked with disgust. Well, I mean, you were out hunting, so why wouldn't you? |
| 1:27.3 | You know what, let's start over. A rabbit? Oh, MG! What a fun pet! I love that for you! The advisor clapped his hands. |
| 1:36.4 | The king, while out on his hunt, took pity on a little white rabbit, scooping it up before |
| 1:41.1 | his hounds turned it into a chew toy and said he would make sure nobody heard it, |
| 1:45.2 | despite being out on a hunt, where the sole purpose was to, you know, kill animals. |
| 1:50.8 | The king contained multitudes. |
| 1:52.8 | Anyway, now he had a pet rabbit. |
| 1:55.4 | He let the creature go free, but it hopped along following his feet. |
| 1:58.8 | This, of course, could only mean one thing. |
| 2:02.0 | Fun rabbit house with tiny rabbit furniture and a rabbit |
| 2:05.2 | buffet and yeah really the king made an afternoon out of it. His kingdom was at |
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