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Also, a huge thank you to Rabbi Heichen and Rabbi Gutnik of Melbourne

for your help and advice on this episode. I really appreciate it. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.

Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.

I am one of those people.

My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. A legendary creature called the Golem has been woven through our modern culture more than we realize.

They appear in television shows like The X-Files, Supernatural, and Grimm, in video games like Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed, and Minecraft, in both Marvel and DC comic book universes, in several major fantasy book series, such as

The Discworld and Wheel of Time, and in many tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons

and Magic the Gathering.

The Golem legend has inspired many classic story tropes in the modern age, and has done

so since the stories first arose

in early Jewish texts. Before I get into the details of the legend of the Golem, I want to preface

that these legends originate in Jewish mythology. I'm not Jewish, and don't proclaim to be an

expert in Judaism or its history. I have used scholarly and well

researched sources as I always do, but as I'm not Jewish, I can't eliminate cultural bias completely,

despite my best efforts. I loved reading about this topic because I have zero previous knowledge,

and learning something completely new

is one of my favorite things to do. However, due to this lack of previous knowledge, I also felt

a little out of my depth when constructing this episode. I want to get this right, so if you have any

issues or want to add anything, please let me know, either by email on the MCP website or via direct message on social media.

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