This week on myths and legends it's a story from one thousand and one nights where we'll learn which fruit might help you and your 50 spouses conceive and that if hanging out in your balcony leads countless adventurers to their deaths, you might just want to stay inside.

The creature this week is a good example of why it might not be great to have a

scripted named after you, especially if that creature is a dorky-looking bottom feeder with a scraggly beard.

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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 stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen.

Today, we're back in the stories of

1001 Knights, a collection of tales from the Middle Ages

in the Arabian Peninsula.

Not a whole lot to go into here,

so we'll just jump into a sultan living the life of his dreams or nightmares.

Sometimes it can be hard to tell. Hey, so, praying, huh? The venerable elderly man said.

The Sultan looked around the black and endless void.

He didn't remember falling asleep in a black and endless void.

Wait, was he dreaming?

The old man smiled.

That was right.

Lucid dreaming, huh?

The Sultan said, could he like fly on command?

Would he have superpowers? What about cake? Could he make way too much cake?

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