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🗓️ 3 October 2025
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This episode originally aired in October 2022! Liv speaks with professor and (prolific!) author Daniel Ogden about all things Spooky! Find his many books on ancient werewolves, dragons, magic, and more wherever you get your books! Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
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| 2:17.3 | This is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby, and I'm your host, Live, here with more of the Spookiest of Spookies. Conversation Edition. Today I spoke with one of the biggest names in ancient spooky, Daniel Ogden. He is a professor at Exeter in the UK, and we actually spoke because I had one of his |
| 2:35.5 | PhD students on the show, Ryan Denson, to talk about all things sea monsters. You must remember |
| 2:41.2 | that one from earlier this year. It was great. So when he suggested I speak with Professor Ogden, |
| 2:47.0 | I was eager, not least because I own like four of his books and used my favorite one, |
| 2:51.5 | the source book of magic and all things supernatural, not the official title, that's in the |
| 2:55.1 | episode description, but I used it in so many of this month's episodes, let alone the past |
| 3:00.1 | spooky seasons that I've done. So today we spoke about all things supernatural, |
| 3:07.2 | werewolves and witches and dragons. |
| 3:09.4 | We dived into it all, and I am obviously very excited for you all to listen. |
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