Summary
Babies of unusual size, vegetable babies, animal babies, and more! This week we’re talking about the most interesting babies of mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, from the Minotaur to Thumbling and everything in between.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of pregnancy, birth, ableism, xenophobia, infertility, forced birth, abortion, misogyny, child abandonment, violence, neglect, child abuse, bestiality, death, natural disaster, and anti-semitism.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:11.1 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:15.3 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:16.2 | In this episode 297, Magic Babies. |
| 0:19.6 | Yeah, Amanda, so because we are of a certain age now, which I hate saying that, but here we are, |
| 0:27.2 | I have been spending a lot more time with babies and new parents, which I know you have a pretty |
| 0:34.6 | large family, both close and extended, But as an only child and as someone who |
| 0:39.4 | is like pretty close in age with all of my cousins, I did not spend a lot of time growing up |
| 0:44.1 | with babies. Yeah, I am the oldest of four kids and I'm six or seven years older than the |
| 0:49.6 | youngest two who are twins. So growing up, I did a lot of baby rearing and there were a lot of baby cousins |
| 0:54.7 | around me. Caring for babies has always been a part of my life. Though now as an adult, my friends |
| 1:00.7 | are starting to have babies for the first time and it, you know, it feels different to be like, |
| 1:03.7 | wow, what a person who resembles you as a person versus as a child. I was like, oh, a creature I have to keep not yelling. And that was more how I related to |
| 1:10.9 | them. A creature I have to care for. Oh, no. Yes. A lot of my friends, like you said, and at least on |
| 1:16.6 | my husband's side of the family, his cousins and stuff like that are starting to become parents. |
| 1:20.8 | While I'm not personally sure if parenthood is in the cards for me, I have been thinking a lot about |
| 1:27.4 | pregnancy and birth. And as I for me, I have been thinking a lot about pregnancy and birth. And as I |
| 1:29.9 | usually do, I have been thinking about it through the lens of mythology and folklore. |
| 1:35.2 | Oh, Julia, has something about the world really like politicized pregnancy recently? |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah, both of that and just like because I am almost 30 now and people have been asking when I'm going to have kids for the past like four years of my life. |
| 1:49.4 | Yeah. |
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