This week on myths and legends, it's a story from Celtic folklore that hits close to home when a storyteller has a hard time finding a tale before a looming deadline.

The difference, well, the deadline is literally that. The creature this week is an evil snail that is actually

scarier than it sounds and sent me on a gross journey to see how snails eat. This is myths and legends episode 353, beggars belief.

This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know but with surprising origins.

Others are tales that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen.

Today it's a story from Celtic folklore about what happens when you're a professional storyteller, but you're out of stories. Not something I struggle with

most months at all. We'll jump in with the horror slowly dawning on the storyteller that he is in big trouble. Oh no, the wife heard from the garden. So you come in a breakfast or?

Oh no, no, no, the wife heard from the garden.

So you come into breakfast or she called out? Nothing. She sighed, uh, but want to talk about it?

That is the problem. I have nothing to talk about it? That is the problem.

I have nothing to talk about, nothing.

The storyteller shrieked back.

He had never once sat down to breakfast

without a story that he would tell the king that night, so the king could go Betty by.

Not once, the same guy, the king, that put a roof over their head, a mansion over their head

for telling him bedtime stories would take his head for not telling him a bedtime story

one time. She might say that he was being ridiculous but well his nightly

audience of one was a medieval king.

Who knew what he would do if he didn't get what he wanted?

She padded the seat next door.

She said he didn't have to eat,

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