🫏One little rent-a-donkey, one big journey🫏

Actually he's a full-grown rental donkey but the journey is a big one because, when you're a poorly treated rental donkey and you have a chance to escape, you take it. Then, spend the rest of the time trying to get back to captivity because the world is dangerous and scary.
😈 The Creature: Eikthymir

The giant stag from Norse myth that makes it rain...rain. He's not as cool as his friend, who has alcohol constantly flowing out of her udders.
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414: Monkey King: Ham-bushed Jul 30, 2025

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🐷Sun Wukong is a bad friend🐷

But, to be fair, he never said he and Pigsy were friends...because you don't send your friends to dinner parties where everyone is trying to murder you.
😈 The Creature: Each Tened
A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire.
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413: European folklore: Justice Jul 16, 2025

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🔔Ring the bell for justice🔔

Want justice? Ring the bell. Doesn't matter if you're a horse or a snake or a merchant or a peasant but if you're one of the latter two probably don't get caught ringing the bell of justice. King Charlemagne puts of a bell of justice and consequences ensue.
😈 The Creature: The Dun Cow
A giant cow that just wants to give your free groceries. Just don't try to take more than your fair share.
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412: Indian folklore: Dicey Jul 02, 2025

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🎲Losing your kingdom in a game of dice🎲

The story of Nala and Damayanti is a tale of love, loss, and losing everything but your underwear because of your terrible decisions and then also your underwear.
😈 The Creature: Drekavac
The creature is the Drekavac, and it's many things to many people. All of them are weird
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"Edgeworthia" by Chad Crouch
"Pilgrim's Progress" by Chad Crouch
"Dune Lullaby" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Thule Racer" by Blue Dot Sessions

411: Celtic folklore: The Wake Jun 18, 2025

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⛵️Get lost at sea with Maelduin⛵️

All Maelduin wants to do is avenge his father's murder...with more murder. He should have listened to that wizard. Because he didn't, his trip just got a whole lot longer. And stranger.
😈 The Creature: The Donestre
The lion headed stranger who will eat you, sure, but also feel really bad about it.
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"New Crescente" by Blue Dot Sessions
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410: Japanese folklore: Provincial Jun 04, 2025

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⛩️Stories from the Japanese countryside⛩️

Five interconnected stories of purpose, meaning, justice, talking animals, the boss falling off a cliff, mushrooms, and travel hampers.
😈 **The Creature: The Dinny Mara
The Dinny Mara is a friendly merman who wants to rehabilitate the reputation of water creatures. They could probably start by not drowning so many people?
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"Never a Worried One" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Denton" by Blue Dot Sessions
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409: Reynard: Nasty, Brutish, and Short May 21, 2025

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🦊 Reynard the fox hates meetings, too 🦊

Especially because at most of the meetings he's invited to, people usually try to kill and eat him. Today, we're back in the stories of Reynard the fox, with sick kings, superpowered storks, and Isengrim the wolf trying to not constantly get skinned alive.
😈 The Creature: The Devs
I guess you have to worry about head trauma and TBI a lot less when you have seven heads.
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"Laddo" by Blue Dot Sessions

408: Knights of the Round Table: Hither and Thither May 07, 2025

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🏰When a knight says he'll be right back, he means it

Unless he dies. Or gets captured. Or just forgets about it, prompting his son to come looking for him in the land of wickedness...and also maybe saving Camelot in the process? It's the story of Sir Morien.
😈 The Creature: The Kaichigo
All those games you haven't played are lonely...and also maybe messing with your stuff in the basement.
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Morien: https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/morien-weston.pdf

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407: West African folklore: Wiser Apr 23, 2025

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🍼Have a budding tyrant? You need a snarky talking baby🍼

Yenga Naa is wiser than the chief. How do you know? Well, he named himself that...the moment he was born.
😈 The Creature: The Cornu
How do you torment sinners without getting your hands dirty? The cornu, that's how.
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406: Slavic folklore: Udder Nonsense Apr 09, 2025

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🐄Baba Yaga, Dragons, Giant Talking Pigs🐄

We'll see what happens when a king who wants one son gets more than he bargained for: three sons, with the oddest one of all, the one capable of calming dragons (when he's not slaying them) and outsmarting giant evil pigs (when he's not slaying them), being born...from a cow.
😈 The Creature: Coliunn Gun Cheaun
The worst, best headless friend you hopefully never had.
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