Rumpelstiltskin
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, it’s Rumpelstiltskin. Amanda reflects on pre-industrial revolution girl bossing, Julia starts singing her social security number into the breeze, and how parent’s need to learn better lies to brag about their children.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, forced marriage, threat of violence, revolution, anti-semitism, kidnapping, body horror, racism, blood, and illness.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | M. |
| 0:05.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.3 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.1 | And this is episode 332. Rumpel Stillskin, which I hear, Julia, after the process of preparing |
| 0:44.8 | this episode, you can now spell. |
| 0:46.6 | I can spell it correctly on the first try and that is the most proud I have been in a |
| 0:51.6 | really long time. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm proud of you too. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you. It's more difficult |
| 0:55.4 | than you would think. You look at it and you're like, I probably know how to spell that. No, the L |
| 0:59.1 | doesn't go where you think it is and there's an extra L in there as well. An extra T. You weren't |
| 1:04.4 | expecting that T. Well, I'm so excited to learn about the story, which I think I have a very |
| 1:09.9 | simplistic understanding of, but I bet is |
| 1:12.3 | more messed up than I remember. I just had so much fun when we were working our way through |
| 1:17.3 | the story of Pinocchio. And while obviously that was like a very chunky story told over |
| 1:21.9 | multiple months through a magazine, which again blows my mind that it was a time period where |
| 1:27.2 | there was magazines. It had me thinking |
| 1:29.7 | about other fairy tale characters that I very much enjoy, and Rumpel Stiltskin is one that |
| 1:35.5 | really does stand out to me. So Amanda, I do, I want to ask you, what do you remember about this |
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