| The Hidden Almanac for Friday August 12th, 2016 |
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| Episode 451 |
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| Previous episode: 2016-08-10 |
| Next episode: 2016-08-15 |
Summary[]
Today we remember the children of the Wolf Pit, and consider the implications. Also we avoid singing by a narrow margin. Too narrow a margin.
Be Safe, and Stay Out of Trouble.
Transcription[]
Welcome to the Hidden Almanac, I’m Reverend Mord. Today is August 12th, 2016.
D: Hi, everybody! I’m Archon Drom!
Drom, I have reading up on people from…somewhere else.
D: What, like Troyzantium? They’re fine! Their food is way better, frankly. We fought the damn Spice Wars, thousands died, and we still can’t make a decent curry to save our souls. You hand somebody in the city a piece of beef and their first thought is to boil it with cabbage. I ask you, is that worth basing a national identity on?
It is not. And I did not mean people from Troyzantium…I meant from elsewhere.
D: What, like the Mountain Kingdom? Nobody comes from there these days. All those traps and the king wandering mad in the catacombs. It’d be goth, but you know he’s pooping in a corner somewhere.
Let us not talk about that. I was actually thinking of the Children of the Wolf Pit.
D: Sounds like a metal band, Mord. Which is fine! I like metal. I went to a Heartworm concert last month.
Did you.
D: Yup. And I moshed! Youngsters these days, they hardly know how to mosh.
The mental image is…searing. But no. The children of the Wolf Pit appeared in the 12th century. They were found in a pit trap dug to discourage wolves.
D: Okay.
They were green.
D: That’s different.
Indeed. They spoke no known language. They were brother and sister. The boy died, for they could eat neither bread nor meat, but the girl learned to eat raw beans, and then other foods as well. Her skin lost its green hue, and she learned the language and was baptized.
D: I don’t suppose anybody wrote down her original language?
This is why we are…colleagues…Drom.
D: Ha! You nearly said friends, Mord, admit it!
I did not. But no. No one thought to record anything of her original language, and she herself was illiterate. She said that she came from the land of St. Martin, where the sun shone only dimly and the light was always like twilight, where all was green. She and her brother had been lost herding cattle for their father, and went into a cave, whereupon they emerged from the wolf pit.
D: Sounds like folklore to me, Mord. Given me about twenty minutes and a dulcimer, and I could have a folk song ready to go.
That will NOT be required. But it is an intriguing incident nonetheless. People come from…elsewhere….at times, do they not?
D: Are you sure you don’t want a folk song? It could have euphemisms! We could talk about milkmaids and spotted cows and tying garters!
(sigh)
The Hidden Almanac is brought to you by Red Wombat Tea Company, purveyors of fine and possibly defunct teas. Red Wombat --- “We Dig Tea.”
Also brought to you by Scarlet Wombat Publishing’s latest songbook, “You May Be On To Something, and Other Ballads of Love, Loss, and Euphemism,” by Pastor Drom.
D: We’ve got an album, too!
Of all the abominations the Fathers have wrought, this may be the most despicable.
That’s the Hidden Almanac for August 12th, 2016. Be safe, and stay out of trouble.
Outro[]
Out of character
The Hidden Almanac is a production of Dark Canvas Media, and is produced by Kevin Sonney. The voice of Reverend Mord is Kevin Sonney. And the voice of Pastor Drom is Ursula Vernon. Our intro music is Moon Valley and our exit music is Red in Black, both by Kosta T. You can find more by Kosta T at the Free Music Archives. All other content is copyright 2013 through 2016, Ursula Vernon.