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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Monstrefact Redux: The Kallikantzaros

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses a holiday monster...

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0:00.0

Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist.

0:02.8

I'm a social media influencer.

0:04.8

Busted while recovering from Brazilian butt lift surgery.

0:08.0

She was yelling at the police for like getting her butt tissue out of joy when they were

0:12.4

hand-guffing her.

0:13.4

She's got hundreds of victims.

0:15.6

To me that's not a con artist that just is a straight-up predator and she just keeps getting

0:20.2

away with it.

0:21.2

This person is a danger.

0:22.5

Listen to Queen of the Con, season three on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever

0:27.7

you get your podcasts.

0:30.6

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:37.6

Hi, my name is Robert Lam and this is The Monster Effect, a short form series from Stuff

0:44.0

to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas and monsters in time.

0:53.1

Magnum mistake, the winter holidays are a time of monsters.

0:57.3

The u-ulads sneak in from the shadows, grilla hungers for the flesh of naughty children

1:03.0

in the darkness, and sinister crampus stalks down from the snow-covered peaks with chains

1:08.9

and switches and child basket in tow.

1:12.7

Even Santa Claus is an immortal being who rules over elves and bioluminescent reindeer.

1:18.6

But the creatures I want to highlight today are the calacanzari.

1:22.1

In the legends and folklore of Greece, they are described as giant, shaggy, satyr-like

1:28.2

creatures not entirely unlike the crampus of alpine traditions.

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