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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Bird Ladies of Russia

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Mythology, Drunkhistory, Legends, Urbanlegends, Society & Culture, Educational, Folklore, Myths, Comedy, History, Gods, Alcohol, Learning

4.8 • 2K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 31 August 2016

ā±ļø 30 minutes

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Summary

Who knew Russian mythology includes so many half-bird, half-woman creatures?! They run the gamut from prophets to sirens to companions for very emo hunters. Plus: inexplicable boobs galore!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, welcome to Spirits Podcast. My name is Julia. My name's Amanda. Each week we come at you bringing

0:05.4

new mythology from all across the world. There's myths, there's legends, there's urban legends,

0:11.5

there's folklore, there's weird tales that your granny told you when you were nervous at night.

0:15.8

And the best part is, there's booze. Boos makes everything better. Everything. Everything better.

0:20.6

Julia is a qualified degree holding history and religious studies expert.

0:25.8

Nerd.

0:26.3

I am someone who really likes Harry Potter and dad jokes.

0:29.4

Together, we have a great podcast.

0:31.2

Yes.

0:31.7

So welcome, if this is the first time you are joining us, we're happy to have you.

0:36.0

We have some new listeners.

0:36.5

I'm very happy to have you. Welcome to the tribe.

0:39.4

Thank you so much. Thank you, spiriters. We need a name for our people. Spiritors. Spirits.

0:45.5

Oh, no. All right. That makes it sound like ghosts. We'll get back to you. But for now, we would

0:48.9

like to shout out some folks who have been really sweet to us on Twitter over the last two weeks. Firstly, the Greater Boston podcast who just finished their first season.

0:57.0

It's totally amazing.

0:57.9

Please go listen and support their Patreon.

1:00.1

And also Alexander Danner for recommending us to his Twitter followers.

1:04.2

Thank you to Abby Eker, Jim McDonnell of the Our Fair City podcast.

1:09.0

Thanks again, Jim.

1:09.9

Always a pleasure talking to you on Twitter.

1:11.8

You're so great. To the definitely human podcast radio drama revival and to Lauren Garcia,

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