Vampires of the World
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Okay, sorry it took us this long to do a vampire episode. As an apology, here’s ALL of the vampire stories you could possibly want from across the world - except for that classic European vampire. Because there’s way cooler ones across the globe!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, blood, pregnancy, stillbirth, child birth, miscarriage, colonization, sexual assault, and xenophobia.
Housekeeping
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Cast & Crew
- 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The I'm going to be. Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy 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. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.3 | And Amanda, I feel like I owe people an apology because I feel like... |
| 0:44.4 | Babe, you could never do anything wrong. |
| 0:46.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.9 | But I feel like I've missed something here. |
| 0:49.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:50.1 | Oh. |
| 0:50.6 | And it's that while we have technically talked about vampires in previous episodes, we've never done like a vampire episode. |
| 1:01.1 | Yes. |
| 1:02.0 | Are you saying this is our bloody dive into mythology, legends, and folklore? |
| 1:06.2 | Yes, it is. |
| 1:07.1 | Yes, it is indeed. |
| 1:08.2 | Incredible. |
| 1:08.9 | Yay. |
| 1:09.8 | And I want to give a quick shout out to Kate from our Discord, |
| 1:12.9 | who was very kind to be like, hey, have you guys done a vampire episode? Silly question. Seems like |
| 1:20.1 | you would have. And have you? And the answer is we've done, like we talked about vampires |
| 1:26.1 | when Isabel was on promoting vampires of El Norte. |
| 1:29.9 | We talked about vampires when we did a myth movie night a really long time ago about only two |
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