60A-Beowulf: I'm Kind of a Big Deal
Myths and Legends
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The Death of Grandal
The creature this week is the Yara Maya Hu from Australian Aboriginal mythology. It will wait until its victim is asleep under a fig tree and then drop down an attack with all of its sucker fingers and thumbs, instantly draining the person of all their blood. Next week, Rothgar comes clean about what just happened, and Beowulf dives 20,000 leagues under a lake to pay a visit to one of folklore's scariest moms.
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