Lore 279: Singular

Lore

Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 • 46.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Even the brightest members of the fairytale world have dark and shadowy origins. In fact, one particular medieval beast developed a terrifying reputation that is still a part of our world today.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Jamie Vargas, and music by Chad Lawson.

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1:02.4	Indeed.com slash show. Terms and conditions apply. There are always patterns. If you stare long enough at the pages of history, you're bound to spot them as well.
1:22.6	The yo-yo between peace and war, the rise of abusive rulers and the people who tear them down,
1:29.1	and the countless moments when people looked at the world around them, and completely got it wrong.
1:35.5	From ancient peoples who believe the stars were pinpricks in an otherwise solid snow globe-like
1:41.5	dome, to not so ancient New Englanders mistaking tuberculosis for vampirism,
1:46.8	sometimes misunderstandings can lead to stories far more fantastical than the truth,
1:51.8	and few places contain more delightful mistakes than medieval bestiaries. For the unfamiliar,
1:58.6	bestiaries were compendiums of creatures both real and imagined.
2:03.2	Basically, they were encyclopedias of every known animal in the popular imagination.
2:08.6	And while these books have been around since antiquity, they became really popular during the Middle Ages
2:14.1	when monks spent their days hunched over illuminated manuscripts.
2:18.9	The text included both written and illustrated depictions of each animal,
2:23.5	blending Christian allegory with real zoological facts.
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