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Old Tales, a Winter King, and How Folklore is Treated as Truth: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Old Tales, a Winter King, and How Folklore is Treated as Truth: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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Here Katherine Arden doesn’t invent a new world, she adds to a real one. We unpack how Russian history, Slavic folklore, and the tension of forgetting vs. remembering work together to ground the magic, why spirits feel natural rather than fantastical, and how winter and neglect slowly reshape the world as old stories fade.

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Hosted by Alyssa Curtis & Ash Christine. Theme song by Magiksolo. Recording studio provided by Garden Groove

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