72. Babayag-O-Rama (The Fright Night Motif)

On this episoDe, Max invents a new motif to celebrate the terrifYing moment when someone invades your home and it's either you or them! Also there are stories about a baby-stealing witch in the woods and a Hairy Man who loves to smile. Enjoy!

Janey’s Sources - Wiley, His Mama, and the Hairy Man

• “The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales” told by Virginia Hamilton  
• Virginia Hamilton’s website  
• “Who Gave You the Right to Tell That Story? Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities” by Lisa Shapiro for Vulture. 
• Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (National Park Service site)  

Max’s Sources - The Geese and Swans

• “Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales” introduced and translated by Sibelan Forrester  
• Free text of some of Aleksandr Afanasyev’s collected “Russian Fairy Tales”  
• Free text of “The Magic Swan-Geese,” a different translation
• Pictures of lacquered box art for "The Swans and Geese"

And a HUGE, monumental shoutout to our brilliant audio engineer, Keith, whom we rely on for everything! We don't know how to use computers, what a microphone is, or even how to read (let alone read ancient Sumerian texts! Wow, Keith, you really are a jack of all trades. By the way, what DO those texts say about the end of the world? We're all dying to know!)