Czech folklore: House of the Dragon
6/17/20261 hr 6 min
🍼 If your parent goes through the trouble of getting you superpowers...
Kind of the least you can do is get them a new house. And fight all the dragons infesting that house. And get their increasingly specific and dangerous medical treatments for their very real and not made-up illnesses.
😈 The Creature: Sisimito
I did not know the Soviets had a secret program to create Chimpanzee-human hybrid. That's almost unrelated to the Sisimito. Almost.
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First 90 secondsJason Weiser· Host0:00
This week on Myths and Legends, it's the story of Vítasco the Victorious, and you'll learn how to turn your child into a superhero. Turns out you have to get started very early, and you might have already disqualified them. Sorry. But if you manage to, I hope you enjoy your free, formerly dragon-infested castle. The creature this time is an ape man who may or may not have inspired a Soviet mad scientist. This is Myths and Legends, episode 437, House of the Dragon. This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly popular tales you might think you know, but with surprising origins, and others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen. Today's story comes to us from the cultures of the Slovak and Czech peoples. The area that makes up the modern-day Czech Republic and Slovakia was, at the time this story was put down to paper, part of Austria-Hungary, an empire famous for sparking World War I and then also not existing after it. After World War I, the country of Czechoslovakia was created and then fell under Soviet control after World War II. After that empire fell, Czechoslovakia re-emerged and, after the Velvet Divorce, a bloodless dissolution, we have the modern-day nations of Slovakia and the Czech Republic.