368: Indian Fairy Tales: Eye Love You

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When your seven spouses all have the same dream on the same night and ask you not to do the thing they dreamt would lead to problems for all of you...maybe don't immediately do that thing.

The creature is Sæhrímnir from Norse myth, AKA ham sandwiches.

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Music:

"Memeti" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Sargento" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Gallant Fantasie" by Blue Dot Sessions

Transcript

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0:00.0	This week on Myths and Legends, it's a story from India, and you'll see how you can get unfathomably rich, selling dead pigeons,
0:07.0	and how to build the Bat Cave with unlimited rice.
0:10.0	The creature this week is all you can eat ham sandwiches.
0:14.0	This is myths and legends, episode 368.
0:20.0	I love you. This is Myths and Legends, episode 368.
0:23.3	I love you.
0:29.4	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.
0:36.5	Others are tales that might be new to you but are definitely worth the listen.
0:40.1	Today's story is from India. It was a fairy tale collected by British folklorist Joseph
0:44.7	Jacobs in the late 19th century, so unfortunately it's not super descriptive on places or time
0:51.0	periods. In that way it's kind of like most fairy tales but I do wish
0:54.4	we had more info. We'll jump in with a king about to leave on a hunt, but first he has to say
1:00.0	goodbye.
1:16.5	Love you, love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you the king said I love you to his queens all seven of them. A sigh followed, a sigh that they all knew the reason for, but he
1:29.1	was going to tell him about it anyway. I'm really glad you're all such an amicable group, the king started.
1:35.2	There's no jealousy, no scheming, they all wanted what was best for one another and they were
1:40.0	all on team air. But team air was without its MVP.
1:44.8	Because I don't have an air, despite seven wives,
1:49.0	the king said.
1:50.0	The women looked to each other and didn't need to state the obvious that when you
1:56.3	marry seven women of various ages, backgrounds and families and none of them conceive
2:02.1	it started to seem like maybe the common denominator. families and none of them conceive.
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