410: Japanese folklore: Provincial
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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⛩️Stories from the Japanese countryside⛩️
😈 **The Creature: The Dinny Mara
The Dinny Mara is a friendly merman who wants to rehabilitate the reputation of water creatures. They could probably start by not drowning so many people?
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🎵 Music Credits
"Never a Worried One" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Denton" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Toadstool Runner" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Spiro's Etude" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Writer's Retreat" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | quick disclaimer, some stronger than usual violence and some slight adult themes this week. |
| 0:04.7 | Please check out the post on mythpodcast.com for more info. |
| 0:08.8 | This week, on myths and legends, we're in the folklore of Japan, and we're in the countryside. |
| 0:14.4 | We'll see that when an animal starts talking to you at a mountain temple, that's usually a |
| 0:19.0 | terrible thing, unless they're great students. |
| 0:22.5 | We'll see how to respond when your boss falls off a cliff and how to go grocery shopping |
| 0:26.9 | and how to go grocery shopping when you're being chased by tigers. |
| 0:31.8 | The creature this week is a merman who wants to change the reputation of water creatures, |
| 0:36.5 | one boy's trip at a time. |
| 0:43.7 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 410, Provincial. |
| 0:53.7 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:57.6 | Some are incredibly popular tales you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 1:02.1 | Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen. |
| 1:06.4 | Today, we're back in the stories of Japanese folklore. |
| 1:09.8 | It says sometime during the Edo period, |
| 1:11.6 | these stories all take place outside of Edo, |
| 1:14.7 | or modern-day Tokyo, |
| 1:16.9 | and in the mountains and the wild places, but not too wild. |
| 1:20.2 | Mainly, they're in the provinces. |
| 1:22.4 | There are five interconnected stories, |
| 1:24.7 | and I've linked them all in the show notes, |
| 1:26.6 | and we'll jump in with an old |
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