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Ep 96 - Scary Tales: Bluebeard
Ep 96 - Scary Tales: Bluebeard

Girls! Girls! Watch out! Watch out! There’s a Blue-bearded animal roaming about! Happy spooky season listeners! Today’s scary fairy tale takes us to once upon a time in the land of France and the tale of Bluebeard, or Barbe Bleue. Beware the stupidly wealthy man with a stupidly blue beard. He’s rich, his beard is blue, he’s got a locked closet room that you are never to go into. Red flags everywhere 🚩🚩🚩.

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Grimm Fairy Tales, Spooky Myths, PodcastChristian MadonnaDrunk Mythology Podcast, History, Comedy, culture, history, Fairy Tale, Europe, France, Once Upon a Time, Bluebeard, Barbe Bleue, Blue Beard, Castle, Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé, Charles Perrault, Folk, folktales, Red Riding Hood, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Crimson Peaks, Guillermo Del Toro, King Henry VIII, Bourgeois, aristocracy, guillotines, fairy, keys, dead wives club, Patrick Bates, snitch, tallest tower, French, Anne Sister Anne, scimitar, stalling, bluebearding, Béla Bartók, Bluebeard's CastleComment
Ep 93 - Grimm Adventures: Rumpelstiltskin
Ep 93 - Grimm Adventures: Rumpelstiltskin

We’re going Grimm this fall, starting with one of our favorite fairy tales that stars the one, the only, Rumbletitskid, Rumperskersin, no… wait, ah yes, Rumpelstiltskin! He’s weaving for the life of the miller’s daughter and wants his payment. A man, friend or fae, needs a name.

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Ep 70 - Alchemy, Immortality and Celtic Myths with Barbara Barnett, Author of Alchemy of Glass
Ep 70 - Alchemy, Immortality and Celtic Myths with Barbara Barnett, Author of Alchemy of Glass

Join us for a conversation with gaslamp fantasy author, Barbara Barnett, as we talk mythological inspirations in her recent novel, Alchemy of Glass, her latest follow up to The Apothecary’s Curse. Barbara shares the Greek and Celtic myths that inspired her work, like the Tuatha Dé Danann. We get to hear firsthand how she blends elements of magic, science, history, and myth together to tell wonderfully compelling stories. Also featuring great anecdotes from Barbara’s days going to Comic-Con press parties and more!

Both Alchemy of Glass and The Apothecary’s Curse are available anywhere books are sold! Go check them out!

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