Circe w/ Jess Zimmerman
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
#Creeptober is just around the corner, but we’re starting the season out right with one of our favorite creepy-cool witches: Circe. From turning men into pigs, enchanting sailors with herbs and feasts, and turning A WOMAN INTO A BUNCH OF DOGS FROM THE WAIST DOWN, Circe is the biggest badass the Odyssey has to offer. Featuring how ace/aro folks would make a killing in the love potion business, how you should never eat food given to you by a beautiful woman, the question of cannibalism in men-pigs, and an herb called HOLY MOLEY.
Follow Jess on Twitter @j_zimms and Jaya @jayasax! Catch up on her incredible monster essays for Catapult, the piece she wrote with Jaya on coauthoring a book with your friend, her coverage of the NY Times Bestseller scandal, and absolutely check out Basic Witches.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast episode 44, Serce with Jess Zimmerman. |
| 0:04.7 | For once, Amanda, I'm not telling us the Greek mythology in this story. |
| 0:08.6 | Someone else told you stuff about Greece. How did it feel? |
| 0:11.3 | It felt pretty good. It felt pretty good. We got deep in there. And you also contributed some insider knowledge on the particularly horrific shit that happened in the Odyssey. |
| 0:18.5 | Always. That's my specialty. Particularly horrific shit. |
| 0:23.6 | We should get that on our next t-shirt. We just got our creepy cool t-shirts in from DFTVA, and we are so |
| 0:29.9 | stoked to have them. The pins look so good, and we're really, really glad that they are still for sale at |
| 0:35.0 | spiritspodcast.com slash merch. Yeah, if you want to be rocking some |
| 0:38.7 | spirits logo, some spirits swag, you should head to that website and check it out. And the quicker we |
| 0:46.3 | sell the inventory that we have, the quicker we can add new designs to the store. So we definitely |
| 0:50.9 | want a logo t-shirt. We definitely want more pins. I definitely want some |
| 0:54.6 | shot glasses. So we will see what happens. Shots, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, shot. So Amanda, |
| 0:59.7 | this week's episode is brought to you in part by Audible, who we love and are welcoming back. |
| 1:05.7 | Yay. You can get a free audiobook with a 30-day trial at audible.com slash spirits, |
| 1:12.8 | and you can stay tuned to hear our recommendations later in this episode. |
| 1:16.1 | And we're welcoming our great new sponsor, StoryBlocks, |
| 1:18.7 | which provides high-quality stock images and vectors and video for a fraction of the cost. |
| 1:24.0 | You can start downloading all this stuff during a free trial at storyblocks.com slash spirits, and we'll be telling you much more about it later in the cost. You can start downloading all the stuff during a free trial at storyblocks.com slash spirits and we'll be telling you much more about it later in the |
| 1:31.1 | episode. You know what I want to hear Amanda? What? I want to hear the beautiful, majestic |
| 1:35.3 | sea witches and wizards, I suppose, and non-binary sorcerers, |
| 1:42.8 | who are now supporting us on Patreon. |
| 1:46.3 | Hell yeah, and we will start with our favorite audio sorcerer, Misha, followed by |
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