Lore 261: Attraction
Lore
Aaron Mahnke
4.6 • 46.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Folklore is often confined to circles around the campfire or whispered stories at slumber parties. But for a time in America, people turned folklore into things worth traveling to see. And their methods were rather tricky.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing and research by GennaRose Nethercott, and music by Chad Lawson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Aaron here. I know I've mentioned this before, but the release date for my brand new book is almost here. |
| 0:07.0 | Cabinet of Curiosities has been the Sister Podcast Delore for over five years now, so it's time to get it into bookstores around the country. Delors |
| 0:13.7 | around the country and into bookstores around the country and into the hands of fans and new readers alike. |
| 0:18.2 | The hardcover is gorgeous. Really the folks over at St Martin's Press did an amazing job with it and by gathering |
| 0:24.5 | nearly 200 of my favorite stories from the podcast into one place I was able to |
| 0:29.6 | curate and organize them into a really useful topical guide to some of history's most |
| 0:34.8 | curious tales. Now here's what you probably already know but I want to repeat it |
| 0:39.0 | just in case you don't. Any pre-orders between now and the book's release on November 12th all magically count toward its first week of sales |
| 0:46.8 | Which means the more pre-orders there are the better chance this book has of landing on the big bestseller lists. So you know the assignment, right? Go pre-order |
| 0:56.0 | today. I have a pre-order link for the Cabinet of Curiosity's book right in this episode's |
| 1:01.6 | text description so you can just tap on that link and |
| 1:04.4 | do your thing or you can head over to grim and mild dot com slash curiosities and |
| 1:09.8 | find the pre-order button at the top of the page in a massive gold banner. |
| 1:14.7 | Let's make this new book a bestseller and share the gift of wild historical tales |
| 1:19.7 | with a whole new generation of fans. |
| 1:21.8 | If anyone can do it, it's the Lore Army, right? And now, on with the show. The war was bloody and brutal. |
| 1:33.0 | 40 thousand troops swarmed. The war was bloody and brutal. |
| 1:43.0 | 40,000 troops swarmed the island, swords and axes in their fists, |
| 1:48.0 | and at only about 540 square miles, |
| 1:51.0 | roughly an 18th the size of Vermont. |
| 1:54.1 | The small Greek island of Rhodes was wholly unprepared. |
| 1:57.7 | Death rained down on the islanders for months on end. |
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