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Monsters & goblins · Folklore
The kallikantzaroi: Greece’s Christmas goblins
Goblins saw at the tree holding up the world, pop up for the twelve days of Christmas and get chased off at Epiphany.
Fire & flight
Icarus: wax wings, one rule and a very famous fall
A father builds wings to escape an island, warns his son not to fly too high, and the son does exactly that.
Underworld trips
Orpheus and Eurydice: the song that almost beat death
A musician charms the underworld into returning his wife, on one condition: do not look back.
Monsters & goblins
Medusa: the Gorgon behind the stony stare
The only mortal Gorgon, a gaze that turns people to stone, and a hero who never looked her in the eye.
Underworld trips
Persephone: pomegranate seeds and the reason for winter
A goddess is taken to the underworld, her mother stops everything growing, and a few seeds decide the seasons.
Fire & flight
Prometheus: who stole fire, and why it cost him so much
A Titan tricks Zeus, smuggles fire to humans and ends up chained to a mountain until Heracles turns up.