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  • Animal Helpers: Boots, Bandages, and Blood Sacrifice

    Animal Helpers: Boots, Bandages, and Blood Sacrifice
    2026/08/14
    Why is it always the youngest, humblest sibling who gets the magic animal on their side? This episode we explore Puss in Boots, La Chatte Blanche, and what animal companions tell us about who folklore thinks deserves to win.

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    49 分
  • Father of terror or enigmatic woman?: unriddling the Sphinx

    Father of terror or enigmatic woman?: unriddling the Sphinx
    2026/07/11
    We talk lions, hybridity, and the unsettling power of a creature that's often part woman, part beast, and entirely a threat to masculine authority — the Sphinx, in all her medieval and Renaissance guises.

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    40 分
  • Harvesting the Salamander Wool

    Harvesting the Salamander Wool
    2026/06/27
    What does it mean for a cold, damp, thoroughly amphibious creature to become the defining symbol of elemental fire? In this episode, we explore the salamander, the fire-resistant (allegedly), asbestos-covered, love-poetry-inspiring, hellfire-embodying little amphibian that confused natural philosophers from Aristotle to Linnaeus.

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    40 分
  • Proud as a Peacock

    Proud as a Peacock
    2026/06/14
    From Hildegard to the Habsburgs, we explore the European perspective on the most spectacular bird.

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    43 分
  • Pharoah's mouse

    Pharoah's mouse
    2026/06/01
    We discuss the curious lore of the Egyptian mongoose or ichneumon and its habit of disemboweling crocodiles – from the inside.

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    33 分
  • How fantastic is burning poop?

    How fantastic is burning poop?
    2026/05/16
    Guest expert Christine Cooper-Rompato regales us with the most excremental of all animals, the bonnacon, which defends itself by ejecting burning poo.

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    43 分
  • In which we swan with swans

    In which we swan with swans
    2026/03/09
    From the OG bird of the soul to the medieval dining table, we explore the long fascination with swans and their (mostly nonexistent) song.

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    45 分
  • The sheep hath paid for all

    The sheep hath paid for all
    2026/01/25
    We're back with our 50th episode on the truly fantastic sheep of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, from the Lamb of God to environmental justice, animal rights, and the lubricants that made the industrial revolution possible.

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    43 分