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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

The Lady of the Lake

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Mythology, Drunkhistory, Legends, Urbanlegends, Society & Culture, Educational, Folklore, Myths, Comedy, History, Gods, Alcohol, Learning

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that Spirits Podcast has to of course do a Lady of the Lake episode as part of our Arthurian series!


Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of war, violence, drowning, religious persecution, death, blood, murder, violence against women, and decapitation. 


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- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin

- Editor: Bren Frederick

- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod

- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman

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About Us

Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome to Spirits podcast to boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

0:32.7

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

0:36.6

I'm Amanda.

0:37.3

And I'm Julia.

0:38.8

And Amanda, last time we were in this series, I had suggested the name, there's a Camelot to know about Arthurian legend.

0:48.6

You did.

0:49.2

And I think you shit rainbows and glitter, Julia.

0:51.7

I think everything you make is amazing.

0:53.3

And I think

0:54.2

there was some opportunity to make that title even catchier for us and for conspirators.

1:00.1

Now, that is true. And I will say, bless our conspirators, because we have gotten a lot of great

1:05.3

recommendations for names, as well as someone recommending that we change the name of the series every episode, which might get

1:12.8

confusing, but is also extremely funny to me personally. There is always a tension between legibility

1:17.9

and the bit, and that's where we live, frankly. I think we can actually find a happy medium here,

1:23.7

which is we change the main name every episode, but then we always finish with colon

1:28.7

the Arthurian series. Great. So this week, I want to welcome you back, I guess, question mark,

1:34.6

to Roundtable Fables, colon, the Arthurian series. Cute. I love a little rhyme. So sweet. Last we had

1:43.4

left off in the series, we had gone over the origins of King Arthur, both in a historical sense, as well as his folkloric origins, which include, you might remember, his weird birth situation, a brief overview of his life, some battles, and eventual kind of sword of death, and then got into more of the

2:03.2

details of the story of, for example, the sword and the stone, and how Arthur kind of just

2:07.9

pulled it out of there pretty much by accident, which also solidified his right to rule as the

2:13.4

king. Amanda, are there any other highlights about Arthur's story that stuck with you?

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