Mythology of Pokémon Sword & Shield
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The internet’s newest favorite Pokémon game has real-life mythological origins, from its towns and cities to the wild new Pokémon making their debut in Sword & Shield. Join us to learn about new horrifying fossil animal mashups, Viking forest cats, and why the Weald isn’t just a Galar thing.
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Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about hauntings, demons, household mischief, captivity, curses, flashbacks, death at sea, gravestones, warfare, virginity, societal constructions of sexual “purity,” societal constructions of masculinity/femininity, species extinction, climate change, museum fraud, and body horror.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.9 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Amanda, and I'm doing the intro solo this week because Julia had the flu. |
| 0:10.3 | Oh, no. |
| 0:11.1 | This is episode 162, mythology of Pokemon's sword and shield. |
| 0:15.7 | And it is an extremely good episode. |
| 0:18.4 | I feel like I say that all the time in these intros, but this one in particular, we talk about the world building of Sword and Shield. We talk about individual |
| 0:24.6 | Pokemon and the stuff that inspired them. It is not a spoilery episode. So if you haven't |
| 0:30.5 | gotten Sword and Shield or you haven't finished it yet, don't worry. We tell you when we're going |
| 0:34.5 | to recap the plot and then you can skip for just a minute or two to make sure that you don't get spoiled. Thanks too to Eric Silver for suggesting this episode. |
| 0:42.0 | We love doing Pokemon. I loved the first Pokemon episode we did. And it was very exciting to talk |
| 0:47.3 | about British stuff and word origins and other things that get me very excited. And then to learn |
| 0:52.8 | all about the mythological origins of some of |
| 0:55.0 | the best sword and shield pokes. But first, welcome and thank you to our newest patrons, Brittany, |
| 1:00.6 | Rachel, and Hess Linna Sam. You join the wonderful ranks of our supporting producer level patrons, |
| 1:06.7 | Philip, Megan, Deborah, Molly, Skyla, Samantha, Sammy, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. |
| 1:12.0 | And our legend-level patrons, Audra, Chris, Jack Marie, Kylo the Husky, Mark Badi, Morgan, Mr. |
| 1:17.7 | Fulk, Josie, Sarah, and BMEY up Scotty. Thanks to you and the hundreds of other people who |
| 1:22.9 | decide to support spirits every month on Patreon, we get to keep doing this, and we love it so, so much. |
| 1:28.7 | So thank you. |
| 1:29.5 | Now, for this episode, we were drinking Pymns Cups, which I describe and tell you all |
| 1:32.9 | about in the actual episode. |
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