Chilluminati Podcast - Episode 220 - Cryptids and Folklore of Ireland

Episode Date: September 17, 2023

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Chiliminaadi podcast episode 220. As always I am one of your host Mike Martin joined by the Oh baby the Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer of LA. That's us Jesse and Alex. That's you know what I feel like a Seltzer. I feel like that's who I am. That's who you are. That's the two of you. Jason Aaron, what did you say? Why do you look so confused Jesse? The way you started this might have been the most broadcastry. Hello everybody. Welcome back to it. Oh, I'm evolving. I'm evolving as a podcaster. That milk chocolate. I guess a coffee or tea brand deal is in our near future. I'll take either one. Yeah, welcome, welcome to the show. It's just the three of us. After two weeks of guests, one of which Jesse was absent for probably to his own. Can we reveal, do we do we, do we already talk about this on the air?

What? Can we reveal what we want, we want Jesse to do? I don't know that I think that by a band, because there's on Reddit, people were talking about on Reddit and on, yeah, on our discord. Yeah, yeah. That's all I want to do. Watch along. And listen along and leave comments. As I can read it for you. Yeah. Oh, man, dude. Oh, man, I can't wait to listen to that.

I am not like you're going to you. Like, Santel pops off well before I do. It's wild. It's like as a person who deals with him frequently. And I use deal with lovingly. He faced time me the other day. I love this man so much already. Yeah. I love him to death. He is all in unconscious, piracy theories. And I just learned this is totally true. I went out to dinner with an old friend who I used to work with way back in the day. And we're sitting around having a conversation. He's like, do you hear about this alien thing? I was like, uh, yeah, a little bit. He's like, let me tell you. And he went all in, not just like he's convinced,

he started saying things about the pyramids. Oh, wow. And I was like, dude, I can't, I must surround and attract people who are in the space and are just all in. Because I don't know what it is about me personally, where I'm like, I had to sit there. So, pyramids is like a line for me too. Let's put that fucking out there, okay?

Humans could have easily made the pyramids. You brought up the question. Hey, those fires in Hawaii, man, like how come there were a few homes and that were still fine or like, why do the boats catch fire? And I literally had to sit there and explain like Okay, well the homes that were fine they had Metal roofs and you see the winds were so high that the winds blew the embers onto other houses and those houses burnt down

But if you had a metal roof you were fine because the metal didn't burn same with boats the wind blew the embers onto the boats The boats got fire and I had to explain this and he was like, wow. That's unfortunate. That checks out. That makes a lot of sense. And I was like, where are you before this? Yeah, you should have been like, how do you think it happened before that? Did you learn this from the meverse kid? But it's one of those things where I absolutely understand

if you're in that space, if you're operating in there and you enjoy the conspiracy, I love it because it's fun, right? It's fun to feel like you're part of a conspiracy. Yeah, you can enjoy a conspiracy for being fun and not believing it. Sure, well, I don't know his level of belief. He was just throwing out questions.

And I was like, yo, actually, I have answers for you. Yeah, he was like, wow. Hey, listen, no, you know what? Props to him for being like taking the mission. Yeah. And in, in, in, in, in, in, and by being like, that's cool. Now I know as opposed to being like, I got a crazy person. He just like joy is a good conspiracy like I know and you know me like I brought I know what I was doing

Bringing Mathis and Centel together. It's like yeah old Marty McFly touching young Marty McFly in the past and setting off the Chain reaction. I know I know what I did It was this starts disappearing. It was a beautiful chemical reaction. Yeah, and I think sometimes, you know, and I think this is very in line with the energy that I bring to this to this panel, that sometimes it's good to just sort of like taste the flavor of what's going on without. It's the rainbow. Yeah, without worrying about facts and, you know, like you've got to just take it, it's like we're reading it.

Jesse, don't laugh at that. Because, no, it's not like, it's not like, it's not like, it's working on facts. No, no, no, no, no. You got to be top of that episode. Alex came for, he's like, in order to make, to have these conversations, we have to take like the geneticist's post and other posts like that, just as, you know, pretend they're real, pretend they're just facts.

And I'm not saying they are. Yeah, I'm not saying they are. You just take me after the conversation, from the fun conversation of it all. We have to know all these facts and figures and information and statistics, science, throw it out the window. Just so you can understand where the thinking is. You know what I mean?

Like, you can't, if you need a window in and I brought my own conspiracy theory, you know what I mean? I brought my own energy to my mind. You know, it's about a ton of way more government documents than I thought you would have brought. So I appreciate that. Yeah, I know, right?

Like it's not crazy to assume that there's something happening. But I think if you only just do your own research, I think you might miss out on the sort of internet, Mimi sort of like the the zeitgeist of it all. If you know what I mean, you make a good point, you know, before we let you shill to everybody. Yeah. Hey, over on Spotify, you can put up polls and stuff for people. And on that episode, I put up a poll with three options.

Let's see what they say. The options were, I said, what do you believe? Yes, they're here. Something's going on, shrug emoji, or it's all just human error. You know, pretty wide gaps between them. There's way more nuanced answers. But here's what it broke and broke down to.

Only the lowest number is 18.5% of people believe they are here 100%. That is the small stuff. That's our relationship. That's not a lot about our relationship. The next one is 23.5% believe everything is human error. And in the middle, but at the majority at 58% flat, something is going on. Team out.

Team out. So, which is the right, I think that is the right answer, you know, in terms of sanity. But you can make Jesse believe anything you want as far as I'm aware. That's right. And if I put a poll in the show notes for this show asking whether or not I should continue shilling for our Patreon at patreon.com slash shumonade pod. I know for sure that the answer would be 100% yes because everyone out there knows that Shulunade pod on Patreon is where you need to go if you like to be here and listen to us

do this. And in exchange for just a little support for this show that already comes out for free. We are nice enough to offer a plethora of things in return for you. Wonderful things. Not just, not just of tote, not just one membership tote as some crowd funding programs do. No, but add free episodes, many soaps with every episode. Access to our brand new show rotten popcorn which you are actually going to record several episodes speaking of yeah, interruption to see I think it's either 24th the 27th a new four-part Netflix UFO series is coming out a documentary series. Okay, that's a rotten popcorn

If I have a next month that's gonna be October's baby. That's Spielberg, right? I do not know. I just saw a little work, but I think it'd be Spielberg. He was working on one. Yeah, and I'm so, I'm so ready. But go over there, check that out, get Mel's art. Mel's art rules. I look, I never look better online than I do,

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And Jesse will say these words. My name is Jesse Cox, aliens are real, and they're here already. That's what it was. No, I'll believe whatever conspiracy you are. Wiping your ass with the money might still be a better use of it. But I would say that. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Also, these episodes coming out when the announcement has gone out,

we have a live show coming up, everybody. The tickets are officially on sale. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Bam, bam, bam, bam. October 15th at the Terra Grande Ballroom. That is a weekend date. That's a Sunday night. It's a Sunday. Yeah. You'll see the announcement everywhere that, again, the tickets for the show will be in the link area description area below. I guess it's like that in Spotify. Whatever you're on your podcasting, you'll see a link somewhere. Go grab tickets that usually sell out pretty

quick and be awesome to see you there. Make a little weekend trip to LA. If you want to hype, if you want the hype tip, two days before we do a show, my favorite band, my favorite band, Islands, is playing the Terra Grande Ballroom also. I will definitely be there. You might be up there on the marquee with them. Yeah, that's, if that happens, that's my dreams. all room also. I will definitely be there. You might be up there on the marquee with them. Yeah, that's, if that happens, that's my dreams. You've made it. Everybody here is giving Alex his dreams. Look, I'm not gonna, I don't want to put that

by bad into the universe, but if you want to have a great weekend, don't stay in downtown LA, drive there, but get tickets to both shows and have a grand weekend on Friday and on Sunday. Are you going to do what you always do and pop up a food referral kind of like menu? Of course, of course I am. That'll be over at patreon.com as well. You can count on it.

Alright, shillin's out in the way. Boys, is it like my diet like considered the Chiliminati palette cleanser kind of episode? It's time for another episode of cryptids. It's been a little while since we've done some cryptids. I'm so ready for this. I want to tell you, doing the research the past couple weeks has been heavy duty because of those wrestlers that were killing people. That's rough.

Yeah, that's rough stuff. It's not. So I'm happy to just talk about some chill beasts. Yeah, I've got a list of 10 cryptids as always. In this time coming from one of my home lands, I guess you would call it, it's the cryptids of Ireland. Okay. We're going to Ireland finally, because we've done some smaller out of the way places the

past few times. And I haven't done Ireland, which is surprising. I'm like 50% Irish. But like how close are you to your Irish heritage? Like do you know about like Irish stuff? I don't know so you know? No, I'm not very close to know. I know it's crazy.

It's crazy. I don't drink. I was like I don't drink or love potatoes. I don't love potato bro. Love potatoes. Potatoes are one of my favorite foods. Okay, but do you know I do actually know an Irish person in your life? Is there like is there anybody like from the old country?

No, my girl the last person from Ireland died when I was like 10, I think. Okay, so, but still, that's pretty close. Yeah, my great grandmother who was directly from Italy literally died last year. Like, she's been, yeah, crazy. Yeah. Pretty close, pretty close. No, I'm not. Yeah, how about you guys?

Are you Irish at all? I'm not. Yeah, 100. Jesse, I mean, not 100. Okay, yeah. My 50. Yeah, how about you guys? Are you Irish at all? I'm not. Yeah, one hundred. Jesse, I mean, that's a lie. Not one hundred. Okay. 50. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I am not. Zero percent. I do though. So you look more than Irish. I am. Yeah. Yeah. Core County, Ireland is where my people are from. I'm the Balkan powder keg mixed with the Cajun spice bomb. I need the chillest dude of the mall. Yeah, I spoke a lot of weed, you guys. What can I say? All right, well, we're gonna start.

I tried to find, there's a ton of them over there. Obviously, the big ones like leprechaun and whatnot, but we're not gonna look at those. I chose 10 of the weirdest, most interesting one, though there are a few that are familiar to, I imagine a lot of people out here. But we're gonna start and you're gonna figure out how you're gonna rate these.

But this is known as the Boo Game, BU-G-G-A-N-E. Boo Game. So you feel free to look it up, but I'll read along as we go. This is a manx legend, and it's a bulky subterranean creature with features akin to those of a mole.

It's said to be in bodily appearance, similar to a hairy version of a Scandinavian troll with glowing eyes and massive tusks, boogains as magical creatures that cannot cross running water or tread on hollowed ground. Occasionally, fairies may use boogains as a sort of hired muscle. They're like the mooks of the, of the fairy world, I guess, having. Having them, they end up using them to punish people who have offended the fairies. Like Hatchmen.

Fairies get offended, they go get a bouquet, and the bouquet goes and roughs them up. Okay. Like, Balkan skull. Or, no, bebop and rough steady. Yeah. Also, yes, yes. I guess they both sound true, yeah.

They're kind of thuggy, yeah. There's not a lot of detail known as to where exactly this all originated, obviously. You're looking at 16th century, I believe. But one famous example of a bogeyne from a local story is with the bogeyne of St. Trinian's Church. This is one of my, this is when I read this, it made me laugh.

So when, this is kind of gives you an idea of what the bogeyne are all about. When St. Trinian's Church was being constructed, supposedly a bogeyne decided thataine decided that if it was fully built, its bells would disturb its sleep, which I fully, I'm on the side of the bougaine so far. Sure, yeah. So, as the church finished being built, for three nights in a row, the bougaine would go over to the church, climb underneath it or on top of it, and throw the roof off of the church. Just the whole, the whole roof would just come out and it would just throw the

roof for three hours. I'm saying there are some kind of joke there about tearing the roof off. I don't know what it is. I don't have it, but you can, you can do the work here. Yeah, no, we're all there. It's like a, it's like an illumination computer animated movie trailer joke. And, you know, you guys can get it. Yeah. Yeah, it's hilarious. This thing is considered kind of a malevolent goblin or a mega lens. Malevolent.

Malevolent. Malevolent goblin or spirit that is said to haunt all the Isle of Man. And it's said to be about, it can be as small as a size of a child with like huge strength. Rippin' the top of a church. How does it even reach? It's a very good, small little like Jesse because it also has red hair. It has red hair.

I love it. In a long tail. Yeah, it's like me. The book game. It's said to be very strong and can cause a lot of damage. That's kind of like what's known about it. Boogeyne sounds like literally like someone from Louisiana's last name.

The earliest known mention of the book game that I could find anyway was in the 16th century, but it's likely that the creature was probably around way longer. The name Boogeyne is thought to come from the manks word Bugani, BU-G-G-A-N-E-E, so an extra E on there, which simply translates to little devil. So it's like a little fucking shister. Basically.

Love, I love this too. I can see people calling their kid in this 16th century, a little fucking boogany. A little game. Yeah. Thank you to Ghost Bed for sponsoring today's episode. And do you want to hear more about Ghostbed? Because you're gonna, because sit down, I love it.

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More like the nibbler. The nibbler. Fire is, it's like, weakness that is like, I guess. It can rip roofs off. So hold on, so hold on, wait, this is going back to Alex. So if the roof, if the roof, the roof was on fire, he couldn't have affected it anyway. No, he just have to watch that motherfucker burn.

Right, right, right, we wouldn't have any water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hate you so fucking well. There's another fun story of the bogeyne that lived in a forest, and he would often just weigh lay travelers and steal their belongings and run off. One day, a traveler was walking through the forest when he was attacked by the bogeyne, And he would often just waylay travelers and steal their belongings and run off. One day a traveler was walking through the forest when he was attacked by the boogain,

but the traveler fought back and managed to kill it. Okay. Can you kill, Faye folk? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a scary creature. You just have to use iron to be defeated. Yeah, I don't know what the boogain basically, if you ever encounter a boogain, the best thing to do is build a fire and say what else?

A Lord's Prayer. Oh, okay. There you go. These are said to be the only things that can scare away a Boo Game. I feel like Boo Gaines like here somebody say the Lord's Prayer and then they like look at each other and they laugh and then they like rip their church roof off. Yeah, exactly. The other little bits and abilities, it can also change size and shape.

It can be very old. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It can't just blow right over that. That's the craziest ability you can have. I mean, it changes size and shape. Yeah, that, that ability is put right next to it. It's also very noisy. Yeah.

You know, those extra traits, and to the point where like it screams can be heard from miles around. Oh, shit, okay. Yeah, like not like, this thing, like if I ran into one of these, that would fuck up my shit extremely. Yeah, I don't, yeah, so that's the boogain in with it being a popular figure in Manx folklore. It's then featured in many stories and songs and poems over the many centuries. And the creature is also a popular tourist attraction.

There are many places in the Isle of Man where it's said to live. Kind of think like Jersey Devilish. Yeah, are the Mothman vibes? Yeah, yeah. So there you go. Did your first little Ireland cryptid the boogain? It's more manned than Irish, right? Yeah, yeah.

It's one of those ones that kind of like, moved to Ireland. But regardless, that's your first one, that's our little dip. Okay, so how do you rate it? How do you rate this thing? And before we start talking about fucking beer and potatoes again and break the hearts of every Irish person listening even further, yeah.

Let's say, it's a me, am I Irish? Let's see, let's see. Let's see if we can say out of scale of one to five, how easy would it be to write like a, how good of a candidate is the boogain to write like a heart-wrenching poem about? In the tradition of all the wonderful Irish literature and poetry that there is out there.

It's the right, right, right. Oh, I don't wonder what? Five. Oh, right, right. Yeah. Oh, I don't wonder what? Five. Oh, one to five? Well, obviously, he can't find a good Catholic girl. So because he's scared of, you know, prayer and fire. Yeah.

You know, redheads out of the question. There's a lot of fire. I would say redhead. Yeah, but like when he sees, you think he has a mirror, bro? No. Sure. When he sees like others of his own kind even. So I would say, well, gain is a five on the sadness scale because like this guy's life is misery. See, but I would actually go the opposite direction. I was going to put him at like a two because this dude lives to just be a troll. Like he just screams and destroys things.

He's more silly. Like, he's not fun drinking now. That's exactly what I'm saying like he's more silly And I feel like there's room for poetry that's like kind of light and fun But you don't remember those poems as much as the ones about the truly tragic things You know, you know, I remember very well. Okay, no, Terry. I rule f**k. There's a whole thing I'm telling you I'm gonna say I'm say two also, I'm gonna go to two. All right, all right, I agree with you. All right, next up on the cryptid list is the Fardarig, F-A-R-R-R, space, D-A-R-I-G. That's how it's pronounced, Fardarig.

You know that's how I'm pronouncing it, so. Great, I'm sure we'll get this. This is how it's really pronounced. Do you know that we have a subreddit where you can correct us on all the States that we make at our slash Shaluminati pod. It's out there. Don't report my account for suicide. I won't have to ban you. Hi, all of Ireland. Let us know how angry you are. Yeah, at Mathis Games. Oh, no, no, I have Irish. I have Irish Mafia tied as a Boston. I have family in the mom. I don't know that I like that. So I got you, fam.

I got you, fam. Yeah, that's what they say out in Boston. Yeah, okay, so the far Daryk is a small, hairy creature that said to live in the woods of Ireland. It said to be very shy and only appear to people who are lost or alone. The far Daryk is also said to kind of just be harmless, but it can be a little mischievous.

Me. The earliest known mention of the far-dareg as far, again, all according to my own research, is somewhere in the 17th century. Again, it's much like the one before it, though, probably been around for a long time. And they, it to believe that the far-dareg is actually the Irish word, it comes from the Irish

word fear d'arach, which means man of the oak. Oh, so he's like some sort of fake creature. I'm pretty sure these are all going to be. Yeah, most of these are going to be kind of fake in origin, you'll see. They said they mostly live in hollow trees and is often seen sitting on branches or just playing in the leaves. Very cute. It's said to be very good at climbing trees and can often be seen swinging from branch

to branch kind of like a monkey. It will come out only when it's very dark due to its shyness and it will often hide behind trees and bushes. If it sees a human, it usually runs away. However, the far dark can also be a little mischievous. It's said that they like to play tricks on people, such as knocking over their hats or pulling on their hair. It's also said to like to steal food, and it's also been known to eat the

context of picnic bath. This is just a Pokemon or a bag of the bogeyne. It's like a passive bogeyne. This is like if the game, if the book game, if the book game, like did you come in or something. Hey, boy, game, is a book, if the book game, hey, boo boo. But that seems to be the extent of its mischievousness.

It doesn't really actively harm anybody. It just kind of like teases them and spooks them maybe a little bit. It's never known to have hurt anyone, at least in stories that I could have found. And it's a relatively popular figure with an Irish folklore. It's been featured in many stories, songs, poems, much like the Boogeyne. And the creature is also another populist tourist attraction as there are many places in Ireland where this thing supposedly lives. What do you do when you let go?

How do you let go of the part? I'm saying like, you know, there are crypt places in Ireland where this thing supposedly lives. What do you do when you go? Like, how do you legend show the part? I don't know. When I get on, I'm saying like, you know, there are cryptid hunters out there, you know? And there's a lot of shows like Los Legends and like all these other things that go to these places and probably make them touristy for people like us if we didn't have a show about it. And we just wanted to go and, you know, go see it for ourselves.

Yeah, the thing is usually a size of a child, long hair, dark hair, beard, extremely hairy, much like the boogain. These guys are so similar. These guys are like, one is like a go-getter and one is like a procrastinator. Yeah. The other thing, like if you ever come across one,

the theory is like, if you ever see one before it gets to toy with you, literally just like pay attention to it. It hates to be noticed, like make it known that you see it and it'll usually run off. This is me. Like look at it. This is me. I don't want to see any.

It make loud noises and it usually runs away from loud noises as well. Yeah, I don't want anything to happen at all. Ever. Yeah. You know, this one for me in the poem scale is more of like a four. This one like the like only after learning about the bogeyne am I like this guy's tragic because it's like

Imagine if you're like the dude who's like on your parents couch like a stoner you like had some things going For you, but you kind of let him go by but your brother is like Really successful and he's out there and he's like into crypto really deep and he's like, he's talking like Chet Hanks, White Boy Summer bullshit. He's out there, you know, like that's the boogain and this guy's the couch guy, right? And so for me, that's a little bit more tragic. I'm gonna bump him up to a three.

Ah, you know, this guy. Barghar is a three for me. I don't know, he seems kind of like a silly goof to me He has less weaknesses as well. So I'm gonna say a two Yeah, the fire the fire weakness is big, but you know, I don't know, but doesn't stop Martian man hunter that much Okay, I'm the next one That's where I lost you guys on the Martian man hunter. I just don't don't see that.

It has the word Martian in it, man. I guess that's true. He's a man hunter. All right, next up on the list, I'll got. All right, so I wrote down how to pronounce this thing because I don't understand how to pronounce it otherwise. I'm going to copy paste it for you boys to see the word I'm looking at. There you go.

That's pronounced garajiboui. They garajiboui. This thing is unlike the past two, not so small. He is a giant in Irish folklore. It's said to be a benevolent giant who lives in the Wicklow mountains. And he's often depicted as being very tall and strong with golden hair and a beard. The early, it's a Nordic. They didn't know they were dealing with a Nordic at the time, but it's in the New Orleans space. Yeah, it's an ain't. Well, I mean, that's

the logical thing here. Right. Obviously, the earliest known mention of the Garry G. Buie is somewhere in the 17th century. Again, we don't know where exactly it truly started, but these words, they thought to come from Garidich, meaning giant, and Booey meaning yellow or golden. So basically, its name translates to like golden giant or yellow giant. There are lots of stories about this guy. In some stories, he's a helpful giant who helps travelers and farmers, but in other stories, he's a mischievous giant who plays tricks on people. However, he's always portrayed as being, he's almost always portrayed between the two of them though, as usually being kind and gentle. He's got like a little mischievous side.

One of the most famous stories about this giant is the story of how he helped a group of travelers who were lost in the Wicklow Mountains. The travelers were so grateful to the giant for helping them that they built a stone care in his honor out in the Wicklow Mountains. The Gary Bowie is a popular figure still amongst many. There's no tourist attractions other than the Wicklow Mountains that I'm aware of, and I'm not sure it's really touristy for him particularly, but he's said to be so tall, he can be seen from miles around.

Obviously very strong, he can lift boulders with ease. He's also a skilled hunter, and he often brings food back to whatever village he's either protecting or staying at. And he's a kind and generous giant, always helping those who usually need help and those are in need, like getting lost in the mountains and stuff.

And there's, yeah, that's about it for the Gariboui giant. That is Zack Snyder's Aquaman. Wait. Wait, what? What? Can you elaborate for me? Have you seen the Snyder cut? God no.

This man literally just said, I don't know DC and you were like, you know what that's like? I'm just saying. Zack Snyder's Aquaman. He's like I would he never watch a four and a half hour movie He just helps the probably nearly different. He just like they made him a sweater. I don't know they sing to him Sweater. I don't know that he he jumps in this what all right. All right. So in the movie Aquaman The way well it wasn't Aquaman. No, it's in the side of cut. It's in the snutter cut. Yeah, you're right. He's like, in justice league, he has a whole village that loves his ass and like kind of sinks. Yeah. Um, he's kind of like, man, throws him into the wall or whatever. It's like, it's like, it is that. Yeah. Yeah. He's living, he's

living like the easy life kind of like amongst the people. He's almost like what Lex Luthor would be mad at Superman about like making the people. He's almost like what Lex Luthor would be mad at Superman about like making the people that work with him like less strong. You know what I mean? Like because he's so strong and he can just do all the work that they need to learn how to do. He kind of makes them into kind of like he like domesticated them a little bit. Domesticated. See because he's a golden hair giant. I just I thought Thor was a closer. I, but Thor is like the size of a man.

Like Thor is like a, the giant compared to me, like a weedy little scrubbing, but I, when you say giant, when you say giant, I'm thinking like a big, huge, almost like deity like creature that like from black and white when you used to send your like monster to town. Right. You know what I'm talking about? That's the vibe here. That's how I feel. That's how I'm seeing it.

I don't know. I feel like he's a, in terms of like poem, he's a one because people love him. Is he close? No sad heart-wrenching poem. You could write about him, I feel like, because he kind of just seems like he loves life. He loves helping people. People love him. They made a statue, Karen, in his honor.

Yeah, I gotta be honest. This is a one and less. Here's the thing, though. They made a statue, Karen in his honor. Yeah, I gotta be honest, this is a one and less. Here's the thing though. It's a one and less. You could sell me on a five poem about how he's so happy, but really inside. He's depressed. That would be the saddest poem of all or consider this. I am with you guys one because he's just to, it's too precious. It's like, he's like Santa all the time, but for number one question, is he naked? No, okay, cool, good. Next. Why does he feel the need to cover up?

I don't know, he maybe he's just modest. Maybe he's got those 17th century Irish Catholic morals. Yeah, I got pants on right now for sure, definitely. Definitely. God, I hope so. The thing that's gonna make it into a five is if like the Gaston type character comes and like shoots him in the heart and kills it. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? And then the whole

town's like sad and they're like singing a song about their dead friend. Then it's a five. Sad. That's sad. Yeah. I mean, I'm saying at a one. Yeah. But if that's off the table, if that's off the table, one, I didn't see anything about that when I did my research. So I'm going to go with, he's a one. Okay, yeah. I mean, that's fair. All right. This next one I can pronounce. This one is, this one I can see being a little bit more tragic than the one prior. This one is the Amadin Moore. This is a figure in Irish and Scottish Gaelic folklore. And it said to be a another giant, but unlike our dear friend from prior, this one is known to be a fool and a often the butt of many jokes.

He is also known as the great fool or the fool of the mounds. You know, he's just a giant who's a fucking idiot apparently. The earliest known mention of the modern more is around the 17th century. This is, this is like his name translates meaning a modern full, more great. So literally grateful. His name is means he's just a big idiot. The big fucking idiot. Yeah, like just wearing, when your name is big moron.

I already feel bad for him. Yeah, you know that thing about how you treat people stupid and you make them stupid? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe that's what happened. Think about that when you name your mythical beasts. In the stories, he's often, in some stories rather, he's portrayed as a harmless fool who's very easily tricked. But there are some stories where he's also a mischievous fool who plays tricks on people. But he's always again, regardless of his mischievousness, even those stories are treated as this fucking idiot, this moron of a giant.

He barely got away. He barely succeeded in what he was trying to do. I got his powers listed out. He's very tall and strong. That's it. Those are his powers. Like, those tall and strong and fooled's it. Those are his powers. Like those tall and strong and fooled by people. That's his other power.

Yeah, like Marvel's Thor. Marvel's Thor. Yeah, you know, kind of, because he's like, yeah, because Thor is like in the MCU anyway. He's a big moron. He's just a stupid fool. He's what do you call him? You start that way, Port Scott. A golden retriever? Well that way, poor guy. Golden Retriever.

Well, Thor one was rough. Thor two is pretty rough. Thor one. Thor two was double rough, but double rough. Neither of those things are this guy. This guy, I mean, he's in the lightest sense, he's Thor, but in another sense, he just seems to be like a cosmic joke on himself. Yeah. I mean, and even deeper, like a little bit of a deeper cut. He's like, he's in several Irish folk narratives. He's sometimes the leader, he's a sometimes leader of the fairy host in these narratives or poems. The full of the fairy mounds of most or palaces rather

is what he's mostly known for. But there are times where he is like leading fairies in some of the homes, but leading, he's greatly, the reason he's greatly feared is because he may administer the fairy stroke upon you. Oh, and what's that mean? Let me give you the fairy stroke real quick. The fact that you said administer the fairy, the minister at flight, he? Let me give you the fairy stroke real quick. The fact that you said administer the fairy,

the minister is like, he hit it with like, the fairy stroke. He had minister, the fairy stroke. You know what I mean? No. Even, maybe it is a pleasurable thing. Either no matter what, it causes paralysis, crippling of the person, or sometimes death.

What does he stroke you with? Uh, he's most active in June, and I don't know does he stroke you with? He's most active in June and I don't know what he strokes you. He gives you the fairies troke. You have a stroke, but it's called a very stroke basically. And if that stroke causes like paralysis, a crippling of some sort, you die. Oh, right. It's because this guy, a modern, gave you the fairies stroke. That's what it was. The fairies stroke. I know. I love saying it like that. Um, yeah, he's a hard one. Shake a little, you know, he shakes out. Yeah, yeah. Uh, yeah.

So just a little bit extra there. Just a little bit more to give you a taste of what his misjiviness, his misjiviness can be like. It's pretty rough. So on one to five, is he more tragic? Because most stories, he's just a fool, but or is he less tragic? Because in the times that he's not, he's given people fairy strokes. If I'm writing a story about someone getting a fairy stroke, does that count?

Or look, because then that's a tragic story about the person getting the fairy stroke, not about the person, the giant giving the fairy stroke. This guy just seems, if you type in fairy stroke, I'm like, poor and hubby, you think something could have come off. I'm positive. I wouldn't do that. I would do that. I would just see what happens. No, I'm all right. I'm curious. Is Alex checking?

No, I just, I'm, okay. We got a rating. we got a rating. I'm having trouble trying to like, to like, I'm gonna put him out of three. I can't even almost like, Grock was the dude's vibe is. You know what I mean? Like, he's kind of a lovable fool,

but he also leads fairies and he can give you a stroke if at his will. He's no tatanya, that's for sure. He seems more dangerous and scary. Like I would be afraid to write a poem about him. I mean, that's fair. Yeah, I don't know. Like a three, I guess.

I feel, I feel, I feel non-committal. I feel, I'm puzzled by this one. I said three as well. I feel two. This is a solid two. I can see that though. Like I can see it, a two being appropriate for this guy. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he's a weird one, man. He's a very, very strange little giant. It's like a weird like, oh, I wish they were, we saw some giants walking around an island right now and make the place look way cooler. I think that there are some sightings of some sort of like tall man, like some tall gray man. Some tall man.

Well, we did see the, remember the TikTok thing that popped up the guy who was filming back when the three things crashed and he saw that like giant human and then he kind of like vanished off TikTok and it was all really weird. Yeah, was that Ireland? No, I don't think so. That was weird actually, yeah. But I was just saying similar idea, similar idea. All right.

I think giants are out there. The next, the next cryptid. Some might know this one, a puka. I've heard this. Okay. Yeah. I've heard this thing. Okay, a also spelled P U with an, like an acid, like an accent mark, C A. This thing, the puka is a shape shifting trickster, a shape shifting trick to spirit, my apologies, of Celtic folklore that usually takes the form of some sort of domestic animal or a human with tell-tale animal features, like large ears, extra little furry, or maybe even a tail they try to hide.

It is said to be the descendant of the Tuatha-denon, who, Tuatha-de- Denon, who are the ancient gods and goddesses of Ireland. Oh, that's kind of cool. So they're like, just like the Lotha Day Denon. Like a little leftover fart goblin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, he's killed another forest. Yeah, yeah, he's kind of like,

yeah, a little fart goblin of leftover god powers. I love the poop. The poop is like that. The poop is well known for its cunning and wild, and is often said to enjoy playing tricks on humans. It can be benevolent or malevolent, depending on its mood. It can be kind of a moody little cryptid.

And in some stories, it's just a helpful spirit that guards travelers or helps farmers with their work on the farm. Dude, imagine if a Puka just walked up down to the farm, grabbed a hose, I'm gonna help you out today and just start fucking helping you. I would never fucking tell anyone.

And I would just ride this gravy train all the way to the bank. You might even be curious if you're going insane or not. I love that though. But in other stories where it's mischievous creature that just like plays tricks on people, sometimes it'll like steal things off the farm, for instance, other times it might steal your food. Again, just little mischievous tricks.

You're gonna notice in a lot of these these fairies and folklore of Ireland, a lot of stealing food themes, a lot of food kind of disappearing. And I feel like there's a historical reason as to why that would be the case. It makes me frustrated when someone takes food off of my plate.

In general. I would imagine it's frustrating as well. If someone like Lil' Puka showed up and took your potatoes without asking. Like when a monkey comes and he takes my cigarette or whatever and like runs away, you know, like that's what? I'm just saying like, you know, in real life, like I can think of like the closest you can imagine to like a fairy coming and taking your stuff is like,

maybe a monkey coming and taking your sandwich or a seagull coming and taking your burger out of your hands when you're about to eat it. I feel like, I don't know, like, I've never once worried about monkeys taking anything of mine. But what, I mean, where you ever eat a place that's like silly with monkeys? I mean, yeah, a few times. You know, that's my own story. That's what I'm saying. Like, I can see it. I'm just saying, like, little little bastards that take your know, that's my own story. That's what I'm saying. I can see it, I'm just saying, like little bastards that take your food, that's like the first thing I would think of as like what a little goblin boy would do.

Like, as many goblin boys as there are, they're all taking food. Oh, bastards that take your food. If you're curious, what a pig looks like. There are a lot of different drawings of them, but the most common one that kind of like, in terms of what it looks like, is let me give you a picture real quick,

and Dean can edit out the awkward silence. Because it's almost like a jackalope in a weird way. I love the one on Wikipedia, have you seen that one? Oh, the one with just like the little, like a little quick. It says, it says, in his own proper character, however, Puka has a sufficiently grotesque, selfish aspect, and he just fucking looks like this.

Yes. I wasn't gonna use that picture because that tells you nothing. This looks like shit. This looks like his name is dipped dip. It looks like his name is like, Brape. It is to describe this. It looks like a shadow puppy.

It looks like a shadow puppy. It looks like a shadow puppet. Yeah, it looks like a, one of those paper shadow puppets that you would do a performance with in like 13th century Japan. It has no features. It has eyes and a mouth that goes, rap. Yeah, it's just a little, it doesn't even have arms. And I'm not sure it has two legs. It's viewed in, I don't know either.

It's viewed in profile. It looks like an L with a fucking drinking bird head on. He's grotesquely selfish. Looks like he was drawn by fucking John Lennon. I don't even know. Look at the link. I sent you for a more artistic interpretation of these things. Oh, shit. Yeah, this thing looks awesome. This thing looks like it could like fly the Millennium Falcon with Han Solo. He really does. I love that. Yeah, that looks awesome. Yeah, he's a much cooler looking dude. Like if a rabbit and a bat man, like a bat, bat demon, like a gargoyle and a rabbit mixed

together maybe, that's what this one is that you sent. Yeah. Well, the thing about it is, like I said earlier, it can shape shift. Some of the forms it's known to take are horse, donkey, goat, dog, cat, hair, and like I said earlier, sometimes even a human. It's often said to have fiery mains and a mane of tangled hair when it takes animal shapes. A rabbit mixed with a lemur with dragonfly wings. Yeah, yeah, it's a weird looking thing. It's said to live in the mountains, forests, and more of Ireland, and is most active at The L.A.W.E.R.E.R.E.W.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.E.R.E.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.R.E.E.R.E.R.E.R Joyce. They've had a little bits about them. The history of the Puka is not super well-documented,

but it is believed to have originated in Celtic mythology and much like the other ones, 17th century somewhere is like where the first story started popping up that we have records of. There's a few stories well known about the Puka. There's the Puka of Nakanishika. This story tells about Puka who haunts the hills of Nakanishika and county Wicklow. The Puka is said to have the ability to change its shape and is often appears as a horse or a goat in this particular story. And it's said to be a mischievous one that plays tricks on people. Then there's the Puka of sleeve blue mountains. This story tells of Apuka who lives in these mountains in the county Lao, Lao, Lao, Lao, Lao. All this

sounds completely accurate. Yeah, that's right. I can't say these names. We're going to issue a real apology to the entire country. I have to ask to the Irish people, even though I am 50% your blood, I apologize greatly. The Puka said to be a benevolent creature on this story that helps the travelers and helps protect the lands.

Again, it can help you with your farmland if it fucking feels like it. And sometimes it's seen in poems as a guardian spirit protect the lands. Again, it can help you with the farmland if it fucking feels like it. And sometimes it's seen in poems as a guardian spirit of the mountains. The last one I have is the Puka of Beren. And this story tells of a Puka who lives in Beren, the county in County Claire. And the Puka is said to have shape shifter,

I said to be a shape shifter that can take on the form of a human here and ends up going to town just to play tricks on people. It goes into town to just fuck around with them and then leaves. Yeah. It's also known to take in a few stories in the area, a shape of a horse and like take the place of somebody else's horse. It's like, don't obey them.

Yeah, literally just fucks up. It's like you missed your mix, you spit like, type stuff like that. Yeah, that's an interesting way to put it in. It's still skin vibes, right? Like, yeah, yeah, he's like, oh, this is going to be a fun little fuck up. I'm just going to do this shitty thing for no reason, because it's for my jollies. There's a, yeah, the Puka, there's like a bunch of different stories, but there's one that's like about a guy who his name was Sean went into a bar and there was a Puka

already there smiling and waiting for him. The Puka Bar. smiling and waiting for him. The Puka Bar. Yes. Oh my God. If there's not a bar in Ireland called the Puka Bar. And it's like a parka. And it's like, yeah, that'd be hilarious. The Puka Bar and then it's like playing Puka's come out and give you some stuff to smoke.

Yeah. But basically, he walks into the bar that Puka's waiting for him smiling. He's like, hi, Sean, I've been waiting for you and Sean's very confused. He says he knows he's a good man and he wants to help him. And when he asks how, the Puka says he's gonna give him anything he wants, money, power, fame, all that stuff.

But Sean knew the Puka was a trickster and simply said, I don't want anything from you. And with that, the Puka simply said, you're making a mistake and disappeared. And that's the story? That's really just a joke. The Sean guy. No, he lives on and he goes,

that's fine, he lives on. The Puka just left the world around. I can't wait. He left with an ominous, I'm always watching you line, but like, that would fuck with me. I'd like to be real. He would fuck with me too. If I saw it,

but like in a good way or a bad, like sometimes, not a good one. Well, according to the story, I never saw the puka ever again. Um, that's all That's like walking through a spider web for the rest of your life That's yeah, I'm never gonna be sure it's not there. You know what I mean? So yeah on the tragic poem scale the puka is an asshole. It seems like Occasionally a good guy. I would rate him high. I would rate him high. I would, because he's like the fart of the gods.

Yeah, that part, I think, and the way that he interacts with our lives compared to how gods interact with our lives. Like, there's something there's something tragic about that, right? Like, there's something like the March of modern life, you know, like, I don't know. There's something about the time's change. The time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know that song. Yeah. Life, you know, like I don't know there's something about the times chain the time

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Yeah, I think because of that, it's a five. Wow, okay. I think the whole thing, it's a very, if you think about it, do it's just sad. Like he, he's taking it out and in the wrong way. Yeah, he's taking it like he's got a better content. His anger is because he's taking out and he's like really bad life on people. He's just taking out. He's like, all right, all right, so we got a pretty tragic guy.

I can see it. I can see it. All right, this next one I picked specifically for you, Jesse. This one here is known as the Lennon Sheet. I'm going to, I want you to look up, I'm gonna send you a link. Oh, this sounds familiar. Okay, the Leon, it sure is not like, damn she. I literally have a pronunciation around things that I don't know, so I'm pronouncing it as

M. So I'm just... Yeah, no, I mean this, she checks out. This is, oh, I know why, because this is from Shimagami Tensei. Oh my God, okay. Yeah. Well, she's also known as the Banching, the capital B, like the Banching, or the fairy queen. And she's a female fairy and Irish folklore, said to be a beautiful woman who seduces young men and artists.

This is exactly Jesse giving them great inspiration and creativity. However, it comes at a cost. That cost is she also slowly drains your life force, causing you to waste away and die young. Oh, so marriage. Hey, we're getting out. Good, grunt. He dangerfully.

I mean, they're all weird. Oh, whoa, whoa. It feels like, this feels like a, almost like a metaphor for, for young creative people who are like, died early on in their lives for numbers. Yeah, it's like a muse. Some sort of like this muse takes the, that's like the Irish version of the like sea captains wife kind of feeling. Yeah, I mean, the stone called hotty and every one of these is absolutely dude. She I would absolutely ruin my life for her. And it pretty good like mid game like summon or whatever you want to call it, demon.

Shima Gamy 10 to 5. May, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, fair. Yeah, super Gamy 10 to 5 is pretty good. Pretty fun. Just saying, if you like hardcore Japanese RPGs, give it a shot. A breakdown of her name is simply gay-like words, meaning, uh, Lennon means sweet heart or lover. And seed, uh, or she, rather, means fairy.

So very, very straightforward, like most of the names here. And like I said, she's also known as the Banshee, which is a word of Irish origin that means woman of the fairy mound. So not Banshee in the way we now know it, but more of it's an original meaning, meaning a lady of the fairy mound, again, fairy queen. That's why I think that's why they capitalize the bee and the banshee when referring to

the Lanan she. This one's like a five for sure. I'm going to let you, I'm going to say you could go ahead and finish, but this is like a fucking Sandman story. I'll read it. Yeah, I, yeah, she's a fiver. Um, the 10 for me. I'm down.

No way. She's a fiber. Um, the nuns 10 for me. Oh, my God. Hey, hey, come down. No, hey. Well, the nuns, she is said to live in the other world, a parallel realm that exists alongside our own. And she is often seen as a muse, inspiring artists and musicians with her beauty and grace. However, the danger of their life force being drained away when she does so is the tradeoff for such things. There are many stories around her. One story tells of a young poet that was seduced by the Lanan Shi.

She gave him great inspiration and he wrote some of his best poetry while under her spell. However, she also drained his life force and this poor artist died very young. Another story tells of a young musician who was also seduced and very similar to the artist, gave him some of the greatest musical skills they had ever known and became famous very quickly due to his talent gifted to him by the Lanan Shi, but much like the one before it died extremely young due to the spell that he was on.

It's like legit might be a Sandman, actually know that I think about it. Oh, I'm a a Sandman, actually, now that I think about it. Oh, I'm a red Sandman, so I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It's like really in that vibe. Yeah. She's kind of like a complex character, way more complex than most of the other ones we've covered today, and that she's beautiful, but dangerous, representing kind of like a dark

side to create. She's much more of a like, thematically complex creature. Right, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So you know, some look at it as like a reminder that inspiration can come at a price or at least those who seek it must be careful not to like lose themselves in the process.

There's a reason the writers have trouble, you know, in life. Yeah, yeah. Again, like the rest with her, particularly, we don't really know where her origin is. She's thought to have originated within Celtic mythology, but we don't really have a year. Again, like most things when the Rick, written records began in the 16th and 17th century. That's where we have the first references to her. But before then, we don't really fucking know. Yeah, so there's a, I'm curious where you would throw her on the scale. I know Alex said 510, but yeah, I think I said it to 5 as well.

She's easily like one of those like just so you can do so much for care. It was made to ride a heart wrenching poem about. Yeah, let me give you a full story about her and we'll move on. Yeah, one day Miriam was walking in the woods when she came across a beautiful woman. The woman dressed in green had long flowing hair and Miriamin was immediately smitten with her and they began to talk. The woman told Miriamin that she was eventually told her rather that she was Lennon Sheet and that she would give this, uh, him great inspiration for his poetry. Miraman, Miraman, agreed to meet with her again and they began a very secret relationship

so he would quietly go out into the woods and meet with her. Lananxi gave Miraman great inspiration for his poetry as she promised, and he wrote some of his best works during this time. But he noticed that he began to waste away, slowly but surely. Lananxi was draining his life force, whether he she knew it or not, and he knew that he would not have long to live. Miraman did eventually die young, but his poetry lived on. His most famous work, The Midnight Court, is a satirical poem about the Irish legal system. The poem is still read and studied today and is a testament to the power of Lanan Xi. She's also known as a OC of the fairies is a

race of supernatural beings in Irish mythology and folklore. She just kind of heard her influence in tentacles spread. Point of the fairs here. In wide. I like her a lot. She's one of my favorite ones. Really neat. Yeah. There's a bajillion stories and little details about her. You could easily go like lose yourself in. They're romantic. Yeah. Yeah.

Very romantic. Uh, so I had a couple other stories about it, but you know, we don't, we don't really need to worry about that. This is skip. I had like three stories about her because there's just like so many. So this one is another one I think a lot of people will recognize. This is known as, these are rather known as the Fomorians. That sounds like some star Trek shit.

The Fomorians, I'm going to just like, it sounds like beyond the ice wall kind of. Yeah, yeah. These are supposedly a supernatural race in Irish mythology who are often portrayed as hostile and monstrous beings. Originally they were said to come from under the sea or the earth, and later they were portrayed as sea raiders and giants. Their enemies of Ireland's first settlers and opponents to the Tuatha de Denon, the other supernatural, and we've talked about in a previous cryptid.

The Tuatha de Denon defeat the Framurians in the Battle of Mag turid. This has been likened to other Indo-European myths of a war between gods and giants, such as the Acer and Veneer in Norse mythology and the Olympians and Titans in Greek mythology. This is like Ireland's version of that. Interesting. And it's really cool because you can play, you know, God of War lately, Acer and Veneer, you know, that's like the core of the same vibe, yeah, the Ragnarok right now. The earliest known mention of the Framoreans is actually way back in the 10th century.

However, it's likely that much like everything else, it went back even further than that. They're likely just stories passed by word that eventually made it to paper. They were, there are many stories of them. And in some stories, they are a race of giants who are feared by the people of Ireland, but in others, they are a race of like I said, sea creatures who attack ships and coastal settlements, raiding them for food and people. However, they are always portrayed as hostile and monstrous. There is no two sides to this cryptid, unlike literally every other one that we've talked

about today. These are pure evil. And again, the story of battle of, of the Battle of Mag, I imagine is how you say it. In this story, the Framoreans are led by Baylor, a giant with a single evil eye. Baylor? Baylor. That sounds familiar too. That's not true.

That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true. by look, look, L.U.G.H. a skilled warrior in magician and the battle is long and bloody, but in the end the two-authidated non-B are victorious. Baylor is killed and the Femoreans defeated. This is crazy.

I didn't really know anything about this. Baylor is the thing from Game of Thrones. Very games of Thrones in a way. Yeah, a little bit about them. Tall and strong, with some being described as having one eye or one arm, they're often depicted as being ugly. They are said to be skilled in magic and warfare and are often associated with the sea and the underworld.

To me, these things came about likely because of like losing ships at sea, maybe a water travel is becoming more common. There's a story of a fisherman who encountered a femurian. There was a time the fisherman named Fion Mac Comhail, C-U-M-H-A-I-L-L. He was a skilled fisherman and was known for a strength and courage. And one day when Fion was fishing off the coast of Ireland, he saw a large creature in the water. The creature was tall and had only a single eye.

Fion knew that this must be a femurian. The femurian saw Fion and swam towards him. Fion was scared, but he knew that he had to fight. He drew a sword, prepared to face this thing, and the femurian attacked him. But Fion was too quick for the femurian. He dodged his attacks and struck him with his sword, and the femurian fell to the ground dead. Fion had defeated the femurian, but knew that this was not the end.

There were many more femurians out there and they would be looking for revenge on his lost people. So, you know, like it's an interesting story. I don't know, like it just be careful of it. It's just badass is what it is. Yeah, they're very just like a badass creature. This is another five. This could be like an epic poem.

Really? You think these are five? This could be like the epic poem. Really, you think these are five? This could be like the ili. It could be a heart wrenching epic, I thought. Yeah, like this could be all the romance tales happening at once. Like this could be the ili. Yeah, this could be, you know what I mean? This could be a big epic.

Okay, I can see it. I can see it. I know we've done seven, I have a couple more, but we may cut it short, because we're already at an hour. Guessy, what about you? Where are you rating this thing? You know, this one is there's something there. There's something clearly there, but you know what? I'm going to say middle road three three. Okay. I want to go to I don't know if I really see a sad epic about this. I'm pure five. I'm pure five. I know you are. You're like a kill me out getting his little heel popped.

The thing about like the sadness scale is it's rough because the best sadness is one where it's like, you know, going back to happy giant. He doesn't seem like he'd be the sad one, but you could write a really sad tale about how he's happy on the out front side. And that'd be the worst one of all. It'd be so sad.

Well, I'm coming here. I'm coming here for it. You know, you're there. All right, this next one is called the Kalia. Even though it's spelt, kale leech. That's how it's spelt in case you want to look it up. Kale leech. Kalia. Kaleia is a divine hag or ancestor figure in Gaelic mythology associated with the creation

of the landscape and with the weather, especially storms and winter are attached to her. The word Kaleia simply means old woman in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, but it's come to be specifically applied to this mythological feature. The earliest recorded literature of the calia is found in 9th century Irish text, quote, known as the lament of the old woman of bear. That's fucking, I would love to like see the original papers of that thing. Just my history like, oh, I'd be so cool to see the original papers of that thing. I'm just my history like, oh, I'd be so cool to see. This was written by an unknown author

in the yellow book of Lecon, and this is the first tale that specifically names the Caliah as she is known today. In the story, the Caliah is a powerful and fearsome woman who has said to have created the mountains, lakes, and rivers of Ireland. She has also said to be the guardian of the seasons and a responsible for bringing winter to the land.

The Calia is often depicted as an old woman with long white hair and a bent back, like she's got like a bend, like off back. She looks all indecrepate. She is sometimes said to have one eye and she is often associated with crows and other birds of prey. The Calia is a complex multifaceted figure,

and her story is very from region to region. However, she is always a powerful and important figure in Gaelic mythology, no matter where you're reading about her. And in some ways, it's continued in South to be celebrated in honor today. Some of the most common myths she said to have created the mountains of Scotland by throwing rocks at her enemies.

She said, I love that. She said to have the power to control the weather and is often blamed for storms and bad weather. She said to be the guardian of the seasons as earlier, as I said earlier. She said to have a magical cauldron that can grant people wishes and she said to have a pet crow that helps sort of spy on people, very old-esque. That's sick. All this is sick to me.

Yeah, they, uh, there are some places where they believe that Kaliah was said to have lived and left her mark. Ben Nevis, which is the tallest mountain in the British Isles, the Kuhlian hills or on the Isle of Sky, the Pops of Jura, off the west coast of Scotland, the Caliastones on the Isle of Lewis and the Caliawel in County, and County Kerry, Ireland. So yeah, she's really kind of like heavy impact on this world, on their culture rather. What do you, where do your thoughts fall in terms of her? And in the scale, like how do scale, how do you scale this one?

Because she's so much more than a lot of the other ones. Yeah, this is a toughy. I think it's like, almost like the, what I read this as is how important, like the old women, the idea of old hardened people is, especially old women and how important they are. They've created literally like nature, life itself, like, you know, I don't know, there's something kind of sure.

I like that. Kind of beautiful about that. I think I think from that, you know, you're saying it's multifaceted. I love that it's like a fearsome character as well as a tragic character. I don't know. I think this one is as complex as the Leaning, the Fairy Queen. I'm not going to even disrespect the by trying to pronounce it.

I don't know how to cheat. Yeah, let on sheet. Like this to me is just as interesting. And you know, for every way that Lennon sheet is praised for beauty and like inspiration, this is like the like, you know, for every way that Lanan sheet is, is, is praised for beauty and like, inspiration, this is like the, the, like, you know, the opposite's like stark reality. I don't know. I think it's nice. I think I like this. This is a five. I'm with you. I'm a five on this. It's a five for me. For say. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's, there's a lot here. I think it could make a really great story.

Yeah. Five easy, easy five. I, I, I glad I think that'll be probably our winner across the board. So before we end, let's not end on her. Let's end on something very small because it got a little bit of a video game connection that I really love. And that's why I want to cover it. But they don't know. Yep, you got it. These are known as the sluach.

You like that? Sluach. Ooh, sluach. Yeah like that? Sluach. Sluach. Sluach. Yeah. Sounds like Quinger. He's class of malevolent spirit in Irish and Scottish folklore believed to be the restless souls of individuals barred from all of the afterlifes, heaven, hell, and other world where the fairies live.

Thus, these spirits would gather like a flock of birds and pray upon the living, always arriving from the West. Seen as a trouble, as trouble some indestructive, the slouch would try and steal the dying souls of innocence to add to their mass. Thus in days of old, windows facing West were often closed to try and prevent the spirits from coming in and abducting the souls of those that might be on their deathbed. Which is kind of a weird thing. Ali and Esk.

Thus, the sluach are made up of tormented souls of the innocent who have been dragged away by the restless dead to share in their eternal torment, a fate that would doubtlessly strike dread into the hearts of those who believed in such things in the superstitious past. These guys are not to be confused with the concept of the unceiligord, though there's a lot of similarities between them and the wild hunt. They're not the same. And the video game, a connection for them specifically, is in the legacy of Kane video game series. The sluag are among the enemies that Rosalind counters in the spectral realm.

I got to go back and play those. scavenging, animolithic creature that prey on souls and usually prefer to flee from Rosalind. Oh, guys, who steal souls? That's what they are. That's a good, that's a good little PlayStation. That should be, that should be back. Those things, those are good games. I went through the whole series a couple of years ago. The top down one is really good. And then I never played the third one, but I like the second one. Yeah. Yes. A soul reaver, blood, Omen 2, soul reaver 2. But the, I don't know, they're not tragic. They're a one on my scale.

They're just a, but actually no. In some ways, they're the most tragic because they are just made up of innocent souls kidnapped by them. So I'm gonna put it out of four. Yeah, I mean look, it's not, it's not as open and shut as the hag or the fairy queen. It's not as like iconic as that, but I like it. So yeah, I think I'm maybe like three and a half four. I like it. Jesse, rate us out of here. Really, I'm surprised. I thought maybe because you know, it's got some similarities to the wild hunt,

it's in legacy of Kane. You might know. I get it, it's very like similarities to the wild hunt, it's in legacy of Kane. You might not know. I get it. It's very like again, we're not talking about like cool. What time out sad story? You get the rules. Well, they, Alex set the rules, Halo.

All right. Well, they're like all innocent souls. They're all innocent souls that got kidnapped. Right, but this is about the souls. This is about the creature. The creature is the souls. Yeah, the creature is the souls Right, but do they know are in the computer? What I don't know if they really know they know though Are they aware of what they are? Good question. I don't have that that's what I'm saying like it's a different thing

It's like you know, Malthus you're playing different thing. It's like, you know, Malthus, you're playing Baldur's Gate. Yeah. Are the mind flares the person they were before, dude? You know, good question. I don't know. That's why I'm asking. It is a good question.

Yeah, it is a good question. I'll say three right down the middle just to be safe. Animals are yirk hosts culpable. Good question. That's it for our cryptid episode. I learned everybody. I learned it to 5 out of 5. Legacy of King gets to 5 out of 5 and Morph gets to 5 out of 5. You guys get to 5 out of 5 listening patreon.com slash to the library pod gets 5 out of 5. I'm gonna give Jesse a 5 out of 5. I'm gonna give a map this to 5 out of 5. I'm gonna to give Jesse a five out of five. I'm going to give Mathis a five out of five.

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