tfw you were not only called in on your day off to play for the fairy tale forest creatures, but NONE of other people in the band showed.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the cat-sìth, the king of the cats from Celtic folklore. With a white spot on its chest and walking on hind legs, it steals the souls of dead people. You can keep it away with music, games, dance, and, of course, catnip.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Boo Hag from Gullah culture in South Carolina. Like a vampire, she's a skinless witch who sucks the breath of sleeping victims for sustenance. She wears skin during the day to hide in plain sight.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Dullahan, a headless horseman from Irish folklore. Active in August and September, he carries his smiling head (which has the consistency and color of moldy cheese), a whip (made out of a human spine), and lanterns (made out of human skulls).

#CreatureOfTheDay are mooninjer veggey, from gaelic folklore: 2ft tall fairy people. They are mostly harmless, but like to get into mischief that ranges from harmless to very harmful & can include anything from tripping you up, stealing your stuff, light kidnapping, and murder.

#CreatureOfTheDay: Satori (覚) is a mind-reading monkey monster from Japanese folklore. In the forest, it’ll speak your thoughts before you can. Given the chance, it’ll kill and eat you, but if something unexpected happens, it flees. So hope a bird flies into its head

"I accidentally made that ice cube way too big! Use that sword to chop it up real good, Galahad." --King Arthur

#CreatureOfTheDay is the kikimora, from Slavic folklore. A small old woman with chicken legs and a beak who secretly lives in your house and helps out and/or messes with stuff and breaks dishes. She'll make mouse noises behind your stove to let you know she wants food.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the nuno sa punso, from Philippine folklore. The "old man of the mound" is a hobgoblin who lives in termite mounds. If you disturb his mound, his curses can include: vomiting blood, urinating black liquid, and hair growth on the back

#CreatureOfTheDay is the squonk, a fearsome critter from Pennsylvania, in North America. A pig monster covered in warts and moles, it is always unhappy. When escape from a hunter is impossible, it will weep to the point that it dissolves itself in its own tears.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Kamaitachi(鎌鼬) the sickle weasel, from Japan. They ride in dust devils and use their sickle-like front claws to give people painless slices on their legs. They live in the mountains of Japan or "any place with weasels" so I guess watch out.

#CreatureOfTheDay today is the oozlum bird, from Australian folklore. Said to fly backwards either to admire its own feathers or because it doesn't know where it's going, it flies in decreasing circles until it flies up its own butt and disappears.

Me in January: I’m gonna set boundaries this year Me in June after accepting a magical quest and the role of champion of the damp goblin-frogs in the cursed swamp:

#CreatureOfTheDay is the laminak, from Basque folklore. Tiny fairies that clean your house, you can tell they are a mythical creature because they have duck feet. Also b/c they are tiny fairies cleaning your house for you. All male laminak are named "William". Art by Morburre

#CreatureOfTheDay is the lidérc, from Hungary. A "miracle chicken" that hatches from the first egg of a black hen kept warm under the arm of a human, then placed in manure, it will steal gold for you but also sit on your chest at night, making you sick.

New Fictional out today! Dr. Henry Harris has been called to asteroid Y-3, humanity's first line of defense against a vast, strange galaxy, because there's a strange infection growing among the soldiers of the outpost: they're turning into plants https://fictional.fm/subscribe

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Muryan, from Cornish folklore. Said to have offended God, but they were too good for hell & too bad for heaven. As punishment, they shrink each time they shapeshift. The largest are ant-sized, the smallest imperceptible. They'll do a jig if you ask nicely

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Lutin, from France. It takes many forms - a horse that gives magical rides, a tiny person that crawls through your child's hair, or a fancy human. Its favorite form is a white cat, often seen in France & Canada as a Lutin in disguise. Art by Godo.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Korrigan. Celtic princesses who opposed Christianity in Brittany, they're "lovely lustful women who try to lure men into their beds and into a watery death." Trying to put someone to sleep in water is barely a euphemism for murder so that's kind of on you

"The Influenza Fiend (1893)" by Arthur Rackham. Sure it's not strictly-speaking scientifically accurate (or accurate in any way), but maybe we should revisit thinking about infectious disease as little nude goblins that breathe in your mouth, bite your head, and lick your ears

#MythologySource this week is the Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturlson. *The* source for Norse mythology, we'll see a blood ocean, Thor's weird habit of kicking mourners into fire, and why you shouldn't invite Loki to your party (he'll kill your kids). https://myths.link/edda

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Cactus Cat, from the American Southwest. With a branched and spiky tail, armored body, and Wolverine-style bone claws, the cat will use its fearful appendages...solely to smash or cut cactuses to drink the fermented liquid inside and get really drunk.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Gashadokuro, from Japan. The giant "starving skeleton" created from the bones of people who starved or were left on the battlefield, it wanders around at 2am eating anyone it finds so avoid giant skeletons at that hour (and all other hours)

Sail along with Máel Dúin from Celtic folklore on a journey of vengeance, forgiveness, and angry demon murder horses. New episode out now

#CreatureOfTheDay is Papa Bois, from Trinidad and Tobago. A jacked grandpa w/ a beard of leaves, a body covered in hair, & horns on his forehead, he'll protect animals by getting hunters lost in the forest. Just don't look at his cloven hooves. He won't hurt you, it's just rude.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Kludde, from Flanders. An evil black dog that approaches in the least evil way possible: hopping on hind legs. Lunges at the throat of travelers & can take the form of a cat, bat, or frog. You can tell something is off because the animal will be on fire.

#CreatureOfTheDay are the Blue Men of the Minch from Scotland, blue men who live in the Minch. Bring your rhyming dictionary, b/c they'll challenge sailors with two lines of poetry, and the sailors will have to complete the rhyme...or the blue men will capsize the ship.

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I don't know what I notice more, the giant carrying the cows like that, the combo of no pants + the shirt being SO short, or just how over it his wife is. From the story "Jack and the Beanstalk". Art by Arthur Rackham.

#Mythology source: The Library. Falsely attributed to Apollodorus of Athens, the work is a comprehensive compendium of Greek mythology and the cover has the happiest naked dudes fighting to the death that you've ever seen (maybe?). https://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html

#CreatureOfTheDay is the Şüräle, from Turkic folklore. He's naked with a wooly body, long, creepy fingers, and a horn on his forehead. He lures people into the forest and gets them lost so he can tickle them to death.

#CreatureOfTheDay is the fossegrim, the "waterfall lord" from Norway. A watery fiddle player (pictured with a harp?) who plays so well that “tables and benches, gray-beards and grandmothers, [...], even babes in the cradle” dance. Throw a goat into a waterfall correctly & he'll teach you how to play

If you didn't see it in your podcast app this morning: Fictional, our other show, is back for a ten-episode season! The two-part season six opener just dropped today with our adaptation of "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H.G. Wells. Check it out! https://fictional.fm/subscribe

#CreatureOfTheDay today is the Hidebehind, a fearsome critter from North America. A shadow monster that lurks behind any tree and eats human intestines, it has a natural aversion to alcohol. Therefore, you should always go into the woods extremely drunk. For safety.

#CreatureOfTheDay today is the clurichaun, from Ireland: the drunker, surlier cousin of the leprechaun that wears red, not green. They are found either swaggering around wine-cellars, brimming tankard in hand, or joyriding on the backs of sheep and dogs around the countryside.

#CreatureOfTheDay today is the Akaname (垢嘗) AKA the filth-licker, from Japan, and it licks dirty bathrooms. It’s a hunched, shy, disease-ridden, and greasy creature. It's not a good thing if this guy shows up, because he'll only help you if you completely lack even the most rudimentary sanitation.

New episode out today featuring five interconnected stories from the Japanese countryside with themes of loss, purpose, legacy, and your boss falling off a cliff.

Back in the stories of Reynard the fox, and we see that if your dinner is *really* into being eaten, that might be a little suspicious.

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There's a fox living on the hillside behind my house, and I'm a little offended it hasn't tried to get me to shave my head or marry me or eat my liver yet.

Fitcher’s Bird

Zeus: don’t let yourself get attached to anyone you are not willing to walk out on in thirty seconds flat if you feel the Hera around the corner

Every fairy tale ever

Just a friendly reminder

In Celtic folklore there's this thing called "fairy gold" where the fairies of the forest give you gold coins or treasure but, when you get home, you find the gold is just, like, bark or rocks. The difference between fairy gold and crypto is, at least with fairy gold, you still have bark and rocks

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To be clear, tolerating trolls in your life (as in the Danish story of Toller's Neighbors) only applies to actual, misunderstood mythological creatures. When it comes to social media trolls, Myths and Legends strongly advocates for a Block Early, Block Often policy. oaks.nvg.org/danetales1-2...

For no particular reason, I’m reminded that Zeus, the monstrous and seemingly unassailable king of the gods, was, through his own arrogance, short-sightedness, and incompetence, overthrown… by birds. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bir...

Odin announces Thor as the new Secretary of Jötnar Affairs