What You May Have Mythed!
A podcast that explores Myths, Legends, Folklore and Fairy Tales from all over the World in an easy-to-understand, fun and humorous way.
Episodes
101 episodes
LVII: A little tail
A short episode this week, courtesy of the Brothers Grimm. It's short, peculiar, and rather whimsical. Enjoy!
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LVI: How to train your Dog (A Tales from the Trunk adventure)
This week we delve into a story from Tales from the Trunk, with Perse (Persephone) and her adopted dragon, Englebert. So sit back, relax, and enjoy an original story from myself that sends Perse and Englebert into the depths of Greek mythology....
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LV: A child called rampion
This week heralds the return of the dynamic duo of fairytales, the bringers of fame and fortune, and death and destruction: The Brothers Grimm, and a story that I'm guessing many of you may know...
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LIV: Adventures across Nepal
This week I am shutting my mouth and giving the stage (or rather the microphone) to four of the students I taught whilst out in Nepal. They retold some Nepali myths and legends, recorded them (in a rather echoey classroom) and here they are for...
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LIII: Walled with love
This week we head to Albania for a story about a castle and a poor woman who became a literal part of it...
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LII: Welcome back!
We are back! Only a short re-introduction this week and a little tale from the wondrous land of Nepal, but we are going to get well underway next week!
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LI: Flower Power
A tale of kindness from two countries this week, and also the last episode for a while. What You May Have Mythed! is going on hiatus until June 2025 as I am away travelling. But fear not, on 5th June 2025 we shall be returning with sto...
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L: Curiosity kills
We venture this time to the largest island in the world for a story about a sea monster with a taste for naughty children...
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XLIX: A tail of magic
For the first time we slither our way to the sixth largest island in the world for a wonderfully whimsical tale.
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XLVIII: Light of my life
This week we are venturing to the cold, northern wastes of Siberia for an odd tale about the Sun and the Moon.
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XLVII: Fire, ash, and dust
We return to the Roman Empire this week for a full 'on this day in history' episode as is is the 1,945th anniversary of the destruction of Pompeii. *Trigger warning as this episode contains some graphic details about how the citize...
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XLVI: Grind me a river
We return once again to West Africa and a familiar face makes an appearance...
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XLIV: What a colossal building
We return to an ancient city to look at one particular building. It's big. It's round. And it was a theatre of death. Hmm, I wonder...
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XLIII: Some peas and quiet
A short tale from one of our Danish friends, and a story about a very small vegetable and a rather large bed...
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XLII: Thor's Toy Story
We return to the cold lands of Jotunheim this week and back into Norse Mythology.
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12:43
XLI: It's just one wall after another.
This week we have a request episode from Yasmin and it concerns a city of many walls in the sunny south of France. Any guesses?
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XL: Plough did you manage that?
We return for the first time in over three years to Türkiye and a story very different from the one we heard when we were last here...
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XXXIX: She made a pigs ear of that
We return, for the first time in a while, to England for a peculiar tale involving a woman, a pig, and many other beasts and inanimate objects...
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XXXVIII: Food for thought
A brief tale from the Brothers Grimm this week, but a thought provoking one.
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XXXVII: I'm just lion around
A short episode this week that heralds the return of the German brothers and a story about a fox, a lion, and a horse.
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XXXVI: I spy(der) with my little eye
A short tale about a Squirrel and a Spider (three guesses which one) from West Africa.
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XXXV: Wet a catastrophe
Our first venture into the myths of The Philippines and it's going to get rather wet...
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