Fey Fellows Podcast Fey Fellows Janina & Lucy

This peculiar German fairytale sees a fisherman win magical wishes from a fish who can speak. His wife goes a bit crazy. Nothing will stop her ambitions, except perhaps the fish... While this tale is relatively unknown, it has many equivalents from English to Indian and potentially even Japanese folklore. There isn't always a fish, and there isn't always ambition to rule the world, but you can see the similarity even when it's just a greedy jackal waiting for a bull's private parts to fall off. Not that this version ends well either, mind.

A final episode exploring one of the most terrifying cryptids of all itme

Another whimsical German fairy tale, The Enchanted Princess takes two brother's on a magical journey with impossible tasks - come along and see how they do! We might just tell you how the bees came to know all the secrets of the world on top of that.

Today's episode is about my all time favourite American cryptid and his lesser-known British cousin. Get ready to wind down some dark country lanes in search of the infamous (and beloved) Point Pleasant Mothman and the Cornish Owlman.

This little fairy tale has it all - a magic cloak, neverending riches, a bad witch, a young maiden, giants, oh yes, and donkeys and cabbages. Find out how all these go together and how some utterly unnecessary characters were treated very unfairly in this forgotten tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.

This episode we explore the bigfoot legend, it's origins and various other iterations of the myth