This week, on Myths and Legends, it's a story from Slavic folklore.

You'll see that being locked in a room with all you can eat cake might not be all good,

especially if you're comparing it as a guy who's rubbing his beard on everything.

Then, on the creature of the week, if you've ever thought that that cotton ball looks like a baby lamb,

that's because it is. Also, it tastes like fish, if you needed a little extra incentive not to eat a cotton ball.

This is Myths and Legends, episode 85A, for the right reasons.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly

popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories you might not

have heard, but really should. Today's a Slavic fairy tale, but one seemingly outside of many of the

Slavic stories I've told on this podcast, so we're not going to see any Vasilisa's Ivens or Bobby Agas,

but it's seriously one of the most interesting stories I've found so far. I loved it, and I hope

you do too. Without further ado, here's the dwarf with a long beard.

Two brothers, a giant dwarf, sat feeding a small fire. They had been hunting the sword for a long time,

and just that morning they had finally found it. It was in a stone, if you're wondering. It's always

in a stone. It was the sword that would be used by their greatest enemy, the famed magician,

the only being that could ever defeat them. That was why they had been questing for months,

living off the land, and now that they had it, there was the question of who should keep it.

If it was powerful enough to destroy them both, they obviously had to keep it safe.

The giant thought that he should keep it because, well, giant, he said,

motioning to his massive build, the seven-inch tall dwarf laughed.

Size was nice, but how tricky was the giant? The giant looked at the ground. Not very.

But who needed to be tricky? You could go to the size of a mountain. The dwarf

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