Mythical Monsters
Travel the world in search of the strangest and most powerful creatures from myth and legend. These beasts are alternately beautiful and ferocious, seductive and sadistic. But no matter what form they take, they tell a story about their culture as only a monster can. Mythical Monsters is a Spotify Original from Parcast.
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Aboriginal Monsters: Bunyip
32 min
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Mischievous Monsters: Maximón
32 min
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Mischievous Monsters: Nain Rouge
34 min
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Mischievous Monsters: Boggart
34 min
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Mischievous Monsters: Curupira
28 min
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Mischievous Monsters: Tokoloshe
30 min
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Bats: Popobawa
26 min
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Bats: Vetala
32 min
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Bats: Minyades
27 min
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Bats: Balayang
29 min
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Hard-Drinking Horrors: Bahkauv
33 min
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Hard-Drinking Horrors: Green Fairy
In turn-of-the-century France, an artist’s muse meets the beguiling Green Fairy after tasting absinthe for the first time.
33 min
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Hard-Drinking Horrors: Clurichaun
Lurking in the cellars of Ireland’s noble families, the clurichaun is a red-clothed, ruddy-cheeked terror. He offers his services in exchange for wine. But when the stores run dry, misfortune follows.
35 min
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Hard-Drinking Horrors: Silenus
In Greek mythology, Silenus is the adoptive father of Dionysus – the god of wine. And despite having a taste for the drink himself, Silenus’s mind is keen and cunning. Which makes it all the harder for King Midas to use him as a pawn in his schemes.
33 min
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Monsters of Seduction: Deer Woman
Appearing in Indigenous stories all across America, the Deer Woman is a beautiful stranger who keeps your eyes on her at every moment. Even when she’s about to kill you.
29 min
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Monsters of Seduction: Leanan Sídhe
In Ireland, a supernatural muse appears to artists of great talent, promising to be a wellspring of new ideas. But her help comes with a catch. She won’t just earn your devotion. She’ll feed on it.
33 min
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Monsters of Seduction: Trauco & Fiura
On an island off the coast of Chile, in the darkest part of the rainforest, lives a troll named Trauco and his wife Fiura. You don’t want to meet them… But if you hear three knocks in the woods, it’s already too late.
34 min
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Monsters of Seduction: Boto Encantado
Lurking in the depths of the Amazon river, the Boto Encantado is a smooth-talking shapeshifter. He sheds his dolphin form to emerge onto land, with a proposition for you. And you won’t want to say no…
34 min
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Victorian Monsters: Frankenstein's Monster
After Kytgy races into the polar night, she comes face to face with an undead monster and the doctor who created it. The encounter leaves her shaken, but more determined than ever to get back what was taken from her.
31 min
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Victorian Monsters: Mr. Hyde
Agnes Carew loved her fiancé. The refined doctor Henry Jekyll was everything she wanted in a husband. But she had no idea what — or who — was hiding within him.
35 min
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Victorian Monsters: The Beetle
In this retelling of Richard Marsh’s “The Beetle,” a downtrodden man and a great politician struggle against the mesmeric grip of a supernatural shapeshifter.
34 min
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Victorian Monsters: The Mummy
Ancient, vengeful, powerful… and free. What happens when the corpse of an Egyptian queen is reanimated in London?
36 min
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Orochi the Dragon
An eight-headed dragon named Yamata-No-Orochi becomes obsessed with devouring a young farmer. She meets a powerful ally just in time, but making a deal with the god of chaos is going to cost her…
36 min
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Monsters of Disease: Loviatar and Her Children
Loviatar is a goddess and reigning queen of the icy, dark Finnish north. But she's also a mother to nine disease-carrying children. And she has no qualms about sending them away from the nest to wreak havoc on humanity.
35 min
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Monsters of Disease: Poreskoro
Poreskoro is a Romani demon with command over the worst diseases known to man: cholera, smallpox, and the plague. It has four dog heads, four cat heads, the body of a bird, and a snake for a tail. It's so gross that even its father, the King of the Demons, is disgusted by it.
34 min