Stories, Tales, Myths, and Legends Nathan Hansen
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- Society & Culture
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Explore what defines cultures throughout the world—their stories, tales, myths, and legends. This podcast provides a new story, tale, myth, or legend each episode for you to listen to and think about.
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A Case of Trespass
This episode is a story from 1897 written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and is titled "A Case of Trespass." She was in her early twenty's when it was published. L.M. Montgomery went on to publish over 500 short stories and poems and is most famous for the Anne of Green Gables series.
If you liked this podcast, check out the episode some of my coworkers at the library put together on "Anne of Green Gables" on the podcast "The Book isn't Necessarily Better" -
The Eyes Have It
"A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere, Bot only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way..." ~Science Fiction Stories introduction to Philip K. Dick's "The Eyes Have It."
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The short story in this episode was published by the San Fransisco Examiner in 1890. The author is Ambrose Bierce and the story is titled “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
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The Star and the Lily
This episode covers two short stories that are titled "The Star and the Lily." Published nearly four decades apart, each story covers a unique cosmology as they unfold. One explains why we find water lilies where they are, the other explains why garden lilies bloom when they do.
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The Paradise of Children
This episode is myth from antiquity retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It comes from his “Wonder Book” and is titled “The Paradise of Children.” You may have heard of Pandora's box, this myth is where that idiom originates.
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The Master Cat; or Puss in Boots
This tale is from a translation from Charles Perrault’s original French version of his 1697 book “Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: more commonly known as Tales of Mother Goose and is titled “the Master Cat; or Puss in Boots.
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