Each year I do a brief episode to say how the podcast is going and what the plan for the year is. First, however, thanks. Games From Folktales comes to you from the unceded lands of the Yugambeh People. Games From Folktales is made possible by its the patreons, who are covering its current hosting…
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Viol d’Amor by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
Count Stenbock was a 19th century nobleman of Swedish descent who held a domain in what is now Estonia. His father died when he was a boy, as did his maternal grandfather, so he was incredibly wealthy for much of his life, although his property was administered for him by his paternal grandfather during childhood.…
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The Byland Ghost Stories
The Byland ghost stories were written into a 12th or 13th century book. They refer to the reign of Richard II as having completed. They take up the afterpage and some small gaps on the pages within the volume, and they are presumably written with the consent, or perhaps encouragement, of whoever looked after the…
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Ken’s Mystery by Julian Hawthorne
A ghost story for your monster of the month. Over to Ben Tucker. Thanks to him and his production team at Librivox. One cool October evening—it was the last day of the month, and unusually cool for the time of year—I made up my mind to go and spend an hour or two with my…
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Mythic Venice #Dungeon23 #City23 April
This year I’ve been participating in Dungeon 23, which is a daily writing challenge, to get together material for a Venice Gazette here for Ars Magica or Magonomia. The first four entries for April have already been published as part of the March episode because they were to do with carnival masks, so I kept…
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Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy’s Curse by Louisa May Alcott
This week I come to you with a plot hook from a most unlikely source: the book “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott. Louisa May Alcott was a 19th century author and in addition to the novel, which has been turned into a movie several times, she also used to write what she called “blood…
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Mythic Venice March #City23 #Dungeon23
This year I’m participating in Dungeon 23, which is a writing challenge where people write each day to build up a series of rooms for a megadungeon. In the City 23 variant, which is what I’m doing, a mass of material to be used to write a gazetteer for Ars Magic or Magonomia about the…
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Dee’s Showstones from the biography by G M Hort
Ars Magica and Magonomia players are interested in how other wizards comport themselves, and how they arrange their laboratories. While I was reading through the biography of John Dee, I found a section about how his lab was laid out. He upgraded it by adding extra furniture and equipment, some of which comes from a…
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The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
I’ve thought about doing this poem before but I’ve excluded it for two reasons. It’s far later than the medieval period, although it is in the Magonomia period Well it’s Georgian theoretically. The other reason is it’s a very popular poem here in Australia: pretty much every school child learns it. It may have taken…
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A legend of Mont St Michel by Guy de Maupassant
St Michael is the patron saint of Normandy. He’s a Warrior Saint: the one who cast Satan from Heaven. It shouldn’t surprise us that the Normans chose him as their Patron, since they started as Vikings and evolved into the world’s most dangerous polo team. Mont Sant Michel, and its daughter house in Cornwall which…
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