Are you a cat lover? Well, whether the answer to that question is yes or no, this story is for you! Come along as I relay the tale of the “Three Sons of Fortune'' and their miraculous (and frankly, ridiculous) methods of making money, and then smile at the heartwarming English tale of Dick Whittington and his cat. So let’s hear some unofficial infomercials, fire a cannon into a cornfield, and find out exactly what makes cats so dangerous to small island kingdoms, only in this week’s episode of Funklore.
Sources for this episode:
https://www.history.com/news/invasive-species-list-mammals-birds-aquatic
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/34/6/1435/707557
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1387/cats-in-the-middle-ages/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-burning
https://worldstories.org.uk/reader/dick-whittington-and-his-cat/english/244
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Whittington
https://www.nathanalanjewelers.com/lab-diamonds-vs-natural-diamonds
https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kinder-_und_Haus-M%C3%A4rchen_Band_3_(1856)/Anmerkungen#70
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schildb%C3%BCrger
Grimm, J., & Grimm, W. (2012). The Three Sons of Fortune. In The Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales (pp. 292-294). Canterbury Classics.
Created, written, and recorded by Justin Bouck
Album art and custom music bed created by Joshua Andrus
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