This week on myths and legends, we're in Slavic folklore and we'll learn that being really good looking can be both the cause of and solution to all of your problems always, and how you can get rich by getting drunk and tackling someone on the beach. The creature this time

just wants to dance with you until you die. This is Myths and Legends episode 386. Really, really ridiculously good-looking.

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 a listen.

We're in Slavic Folklore this week and while I would like to be more specific than that,

the story isn't really super specific.

It comes from a collection of folk tales entitled Russian garland of fairy tales,

but it was put down to paper in a time when the Romanovs ruled the Russian Empire,

and the Russian Empire was so big that a

translator playing fast and loose with the details could have accurately called

Finnish an Alaskan folklore Russian folklore. So we're going to stick with

Slavic folklore because most of the story

this week takes place in Armenia and also the Middle East, though that's not without

its own inaccuracies as we'll see. All that to say, it doesn't really matter. Set in a world of warring kings,

murderous princesses, and jacked centaurs, today's story begins with a king holding a familiar

request, and a princess with an unconventional response. So, King Guedon, what do we think?

King Kuedon, had just left for his homelands after spending some time

in the kingdom getting to know Princess Milatrisa.

He's horrible. Milatrisa crossed her arms. Horribly rich, powerful, renowned, sorry, I don't think I caught the rest of that sentence.

Kermit smiled.

No, you did.

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