This week on myths and legends, we're doing some fables, a lot of fables actually.

You'll see why you don't mess with cats, ever, and why you should let mosquitoes bite you so you don't die.

The creature this time is a very wise

dragon that you should go seek out because he's so wise. Definitely don't think

about how he's the one spreading rumors of his wisdom and trying to get essentially free meal delivery.

This is myths and legends episode 370 state of nature.

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.

Others are tales that might be new to you, but are definitely worth listen.

Like I said, we're telling some of Aesop's fables this week.

Aesop is a fabulous, which is the name of someone who writes fables and maybe also my new dream job title.

It probably doesn't count a few adapt fables,

so I still have something to strive for.

Aesop, though, probably didn't exist,

which would make him a fabulous fabulous.

Wordplay aside though, very little is known about Aesop's life.

He's said to have lived between 620 and 564 BC,

and he does have a legendary origin, which I'll read and see if it's worth telling on this

podcast. Aesop, as the legends go, was an enslaved man who, through his storytelling ability,

gained freedom and served as an advisor to Kings.

We'll jump in starting with his most famous story, which really just serves as a way to tell all of his other

far more interesting fables. I hear you talking all around the forest that you can beat me in a race.

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