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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Loki | It's Norse, Of Course

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We couldn’t do It’s Norse, Of Course without talking about our favorite trickster, Loki. We chat about his origins, the shenanigans he gets himself into, and why everyone is mad at him basically all the time!

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of sexual situations, misogyny, pregnancy, abduction, death, genitalia, crude humor, toxic masculinity, slavery, and violence. 


Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, conspirators, it's Julia. And before we get started, I want to tell you about a flash sale that is happening at our merch store.

0:08.9

Since this is the Loki episode, we wanted to celebrate some trickstery, trick or treats. And so if you go to spiritspodcast.com slash merch right now, you can get 25% off all of our merch that is 25% off all of our merch

0:24.1

when you go to spiritspodcast.com slash merch this sale is not going to last for very long so you can

0:30.0

go and find a link in the description of this episode or again go to spiritspodcast.com slash

0:36.4

merch for 25% off all of our merch right now.

0:39.9

And now let's get to the episode. Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

1:12.3

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

1:15.6

I'm Amanda.

1:16.2

And I'm Julia.

1:17.1

And this is episode 333, baby, all about Loki.

1:20.8

And Julia, who could we have as a better installment of our, it's Norsese of course series for such a synchronous episode three

1:30.5

threes in a row. It feels ambiguously gendered. It feels sexy. It feels mischievous. It must be Loki.

1:36.5

It must be Loki, obviously, of course. And Amanda, I was going to ask you what you remember

1:41.8

slash think about when you think of Loki, but I think you've

1:44.5

touched on quite a few things, so we're good there. Yes, we covered Loki in our wonderful

1:49.9

Gender Fuck the Gods episode from early on in Spirit's History and a real fan favorite episode,

1:55.2

I must say. And we've touched on a number of stories, including the spidery horse, having sex as a horse, and just

2:02.8

Loki being, you know, a trickster. And of course, there's Tom Hiddleston's by-icon

2:07.7

performance in the movies. So again, I won't always talk about Marvel movies when we are

2:12.9

covering its Norris, of course, but this is one performance that for me, you know, is really

2:16.7

up there on my mood board of tricksters and messengers being the hottest figures in mythology.

2:21.1

You know, Tom Hiddleston's Loki is up there.

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