"The Ballad Of Bunyan" | Creep Street Sketch 42

About this episode

The episode explores the transformation of American myths into something stranger, blurring the lines between folklore and fear.

What begins as the usual tall-timber yarn slowly mutates into something stranger, the way American myths often do when the sun goes down and the bottle gets light. Each swing of the axe summons another impossible catastrophe blamed on that big blue-oxed bastard, until the line between folklore and fear blurs like bad ink in a rainstorm. Somewhere out in those woods, the legend still walks… and he’s taking the whole republic with him, one cosmic blunder at a time.

People in this episode

Host: Creep Street Podcast

Topics covered

• folklore
• mythology
• American culture
• tall tales
• fear
• comedy

Keywords

• Bunyan
• myth
• folklore
• tall tales
• comedy
• American culture
• fear

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Ballad Of Bunyan

Places: American, woods

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