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Animal Magic

j. SNODGRASS

Good-Natured Comedy about Animal Folklore, Biblical Silliness, and the Artificial Primate Habitat I call Home. What can ancient Animal Myths and Fables tell us about how to be Human in modern life? SNODGRASS is a college teacher, public speaker, and the author of Shakespeare’s Goddess, Genesis and the Rise of Civilization, and Chaos Chaos. More info at j-snodgrass.com

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41 episodes

  1. The White Witch (The Ouija Board Murder of Clothilde Marchand, Buffalo 1930) 31:17
  2. The Labyrinth (Ancient Symbol and a Greek Horror Story about Theseus and the Minotaur) 20:33
  3. Shakespeare's Shapeshifters: Bottom's Dream, Puck and Ariel (with Mason Winfield) 29:02
  4. Birds of a Feather (The Evolution of the Bird, and some Touching Stories) 14:42
  5. Stonehenge (The Mystery Revealed!) 14:19
  6. The Hydra (Is this Mythical Monster a Plant? Animal? River? Convent or Coven?) 14:33
  7. Shakespeare's Shapeshifters: Falstaff, Puck, and the Golden Bough (with Mason Winfield) 24:12
  8. Demeter's Daughters in the Underworld (This Greek Myth is a Downer) 12:05
  9. Something Else About Elephants (Ingredients and Indian Beliefs) 16:23
  10. Something About Elephants (Classical Roman and Christian Beliefs) 13:21
  11. Hardware (Maybe the Machines Would Be Happier Without Us) 21:44
  12. The Boar's Head (A Creepy Cincinnati Christmas Tradition) 14:23
  13. Pigs on the Wing (A Pink Floyd Logo Breaks Free and Terrorizes an Orwellian Animal Farm) 15:37
  14. A Big Black Cloud Over Ohio (A Haunted Road-Trip to Witness Nick Cave) 13:50
  15. Circe in the Odyssey (A Greek Mythical Wish who turns Chauvinist Pigs into Bacon)) 15:44
  16. The Sirens' Song: A Heart Concert, and the Odyssey 18:49
  17. Creeps! (Insects in Egyptian, Chinese and Greek Mythology) 15:48
  18. The Raven, the Fox, and the Rich Fool (Jesus said to Consider the Ravens...Why?) 15:13
  19. The Fluid Edge 13:50
  20. Power: Bacteria, Billionaires and Blockbuster Action Stars of the 80s 18:02
  21. The Trojan War and Euripides' Helen (Sample Chapters of WELCOME TO TRAGEDY) 17:39
  22. Bonfire (Classic Fire Stories from Lethal Weapon, Ancient Greece, and Indigenous Americans) 20:15
  23. Leviathan (The Biblical Seamonster and the Battle of Bible and Biology) 15:23
  24. Robin Hood (Medieval Hero or Pagan Trickster?) 16:47
  25. The Easter Bunny Reveals All (Including the Origin of the Goddess Ostara's Hare) 12:16
  26. The Minotaur (David Bowie's Pants and the Myth of Theseus) 14:48
  27. Raised by Wolves (How Dogs Civilized Humanity, and the Meanest Thing Jesus Ever Said) 13:36
  28. Lock, Livestock & Barrel (Abraham and Animal Cruelty in the Bible) 12:23
  29. The Carolina-dog (A Free Sample Chapter of "Chaos Chaos") 13:41
  30. Naysayers (Balaam's Ass, the Talking Donkey in the Bible) 16:42
  31. Hibernating (That Time Michael Threw Carrots at the Bear, Plus Biblical and Native American Legends) 18:18
  32. Groundhog Day Special (Pagan Origins of a Preposterous Holiday) 9:05
  33. "Great Snakes!" (Biblical Snake Stories - Silly and Sexist) 16:50
  34. Here Be Dragons (Lord of the Rings and Dragon-Lore from Greece, China, and Central America) 16:03
  35. Everything All of the Time (4 Kids + Clean House = Impossible) 14:37
  36. For the Birds (The Unfortunate Turtledoves at Jesus' Bris, and an Indigenous American Trickster)) 19:30
  37. Your Smiling Face (James Taylor's Eyebrows) 16:35
  38. Two By Two (Noah's Ark, the Zoo, and a Streetcar Named Desire) 18:40
  39. Fish Story (James Bond, Jonah, and the Whale) 19:03
  40. Holy Cow (Viking Mythology and the Biblical Golden Calf) 19:03
  41. Rabbit on the Moon (Aztec, Chinese and Indigenous American Storytelling) 19:00