402: Japanese folklore: Misconceptions
🐸Love means never having to say I'm sorry (I poisoned you)"🐸...or something like that. This Valentine's Day there are three love stories from Japan. On the first, a man moves on after becoming a widower (kind of), on the second, two frogs fall out of love...with a place, and on the third, the whole world is in love with a geisha.
😈 The Creature: Maikubi (舞首)
Three heads that don't so much as dance as they do bite each other and sink ships.
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Story 1: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.18748.20Story 2: https://www.japanpowered.com/folklore-and-urban-legends/two-frogs-japanese-folktaleStory 3: https://www.worldoftales.com/Asian_folktales/Japanese_folktale_63.html#gsc.tab=0📼 YouTube
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🎵 Music Credits
"Then Disappeared to the Ground" by Blue Dot Sessions"Bogs Reverie" by Blue Dot Sessions"Jat Poure" by Blue Dot Sessions
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