This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's a lesser-known story from the Grim Brothers,

and we'll learn all about eating vomit for fun and profit, and we'll meet a helpful slash

sometimes homicidal cloud uber, then on the creature of the week, we'll meet a Welsh vampire,

who despite her scary appearance is really hard to take seriously, what would spit constantly

dangling from her one, tusk-like vampire tooth.

This is the Myths and Legends podcast, Episode 55, My Bird Heart Will Go On.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from folklore. Some are incredibly popular stories you

think you know, with surprising origins. Others are stories you might not have heard, but really should.

This week, it's a little known story from the Grim Brothers, and the story's name is Donkey

Cabages, which, with a name like that, already kind of makes it a great addition to this podcast.

The Grim Brothers lived in what is now Germany in the 1800s, and they collected stories through

interviews with family, friends, and everyday people. They didn't come up with stories,

and they denied any embellishments or additions. I mean, who would do that? Who would add things to

otherwise dry or insurgable folktales? That's just disgusting. I forgot that the Grim Brothers

traveled the countryside, but I've also been corrected by listeners that made me the stories

came from one prominent family and one woman in particular. I don't want to wait into fairy tale

controversy because I guess that exists. So I'm just going to leave that right there. I'm going

with the German version from the Grim Brothers, but it's traveled far and Western Europe,

and there are versions collected by the Scottish poet Andrew Lang and English poet Ruth Manning Sanders.

Alright, I'll move the story.

The Huntsman had been laying in the bushes for hours, and then he saw it. A massive buck.

His stomach grumbled. This would go a long way in helping him survive. He put his finger on

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