This week on Myths and Legends, it's a story from English folklore about Moving Day.

We'll see that. If you only have the same three guys move your entire house over and over again,

and you don't pay them at all that might be a problem.

Also we'll see what to do if your parents give you a box full of men.

The creature this time is a Shetland pony who will drown you but only as a joke.

This is myths and legends episode 364 of mice and men and frogs and birds

This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know but with surprising

origins and others are tales that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen.

Today it's a story from England about striking out on your own and getting a little help from

your friends, your tiny friends who live in your pocket. He was not a child any longer and someday Jack's mother and father were going to have to see it too.

A towering five foot. Jack's mother and father were going to have to see it too.

A towering five foot eight, with hair coarse-like hay on his pillow and toes sprouting from the

blankets.

Jack had long outgrown everything this quiet farm could offer.

Because of that, he had spread his wings last year at 18 with plans to leave and flourish

elsewhere.

Anywhere. just not here.

He made it as far as the final fence post on the hill, in the rain with a shovel slung

across one shoulder, only to return like a fly, resolved to the web.

With a heavy head and heavier arms, he had trudged home, having never left, still a boy. Perhaps now, never to be a man. Still, also, the family's lone offspring,

with no siblings to hide behind.

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