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Listener discretion is advised. The

1:09

world is full of stories. Stories

1:12

of the strange, the bizarre,

1:15

the unexpected. Join

1:18

Cat and Jethro Gilligan-Toth

1:21

as they lift the lid and

1:23

cautiously peer inside the

1:26

box of oddities. So

1:29

I've made a promise to your friend Erica

1:33

to write a book about your little sayings and

1:35

expressions.

1:38

Like for example, how when you refer

1:41

to sexual reproductive organs, you

1:43

refer to them as bits.

1:44

Well, bits can really mean any

1:47

part of your body. Sure. Or when you go

1:49

somewhere, you say you're gonna scootal.

1:52

Yeah. Or when, whenever

1:55

you're going through your phone

1:57

looking for something, every time you tap the...

2:00

screen you say boop.

2:01

Anyway, I'm writing a book about this

2:03

and I'm calling it Catechisms. It's

2:06

gonna be an e-book when I self-publish

2:08

on Kindle. Yeah. I'm sure it's gonna sell

2:10

untold dozens. But you

2:13

do have a very unique way of

2:15

expressing yourself and it's charming

2:18

and unique

2:19

and authentic. The

2:21

other day I commented on in

2:24

a group that I'm in on Facebook it's I'm

2:26

over 30 so obviously I'm a dinosaur explain

2:28

this to me and I posted

2:31

about how the little Jesus say

2:34

something a certain way and

2:36

someone was like

2:37

what's a Jesus? And I

2:41

was like you know the young people. Yeah. The young the

2:43

youngins. Yeah it's a derogatory

2:46

term that's primarily

2:49

used I think in Maine.

2:50

But I was talking about how it seems

2:53

as though the word

2:55

whenever is replacing

2:57

the word when and I find

3:01

that concerning. I

3:03

understand that language changes and whatever but when

3:06

you know when the thing happened

3:09

you wouldn't say whenever it happened

3:11

because you know when it happened. So

3:14

I don't understand it. Why are the Jesus

3:16

saying it?

3:17

Little Jesus are saying it yeah it's all the

3:19

little Jesus fault. Maybe it's a regional

3:21

thing and it's got nothing to do with the Jesus. I don't

3:23

know. That is such a main thing though. Your

3:26

little Jesus get out of my yard. Little

3:28

Jesus.

3:29

Anyhoozle. I just

3:32

I want to warn you here about

3:34

this this next story. This is

3:36

gonna be dark and painful

3:39

and ugly. Oh. And

3:41

I just want you all all you little Jesus

3:44

to recognize the fact

3:46

that this will be uncomfortable and

3:48

consider this a trigger warning.

3:50

Okay so this one is not for the little Jesus.

3:52

It's not for the little Jesus. Okay. It's for the big

3:54

Jesus. Okay I'm excited. I can't

3:57

believe we've not touched on this story.

4:00

before now. Oh, is it something that I know

4:02

about? Oh, yeah. Yeah, everybody knows

4:04

about it. But I'm gonna dig into the details

4:06

a little bit. I got this email from Nick.

4:08

It just said, the subject matter just said,

4:11

Jethro, it's time. And

4:16

and so I open it up and it says, we

4:18

need the Ed Gein pod. And

4:20

I wrote back, you're right, Nick. It

4:24

is time. In the annals of American

4:26

crime, few cases are as shocking

4:28

or disturbing as that

4:30

of Edward Theodore Ed

4:32

Gein,

4:33

the body snatcher and murderer from Plainsfield,

4:36

Wisconsin. He left him

4:39

a carb legacy that went on to inspire

4:41

an entire generation of horror

4:44

film makers. Yeah. Psycho

4:46

was based on that. Silence of the Lambs

4:49

was based on that. There's a lot of questions

4:52

about the crimes of Ed Gein, their

4:54

motivations, the aftermath, tracing

4:57

the shadow that Gein

4:59

has cast

5:00

over both true crime history and popular

5:03

culture. Born on August

5:05

27th, 1906 to George

5:07

and Augusta Gein, Ed

5:09

was raised alongside his older brother Henry

5:12

in a rural farmhouse in Plainsfield,

5:14

Wisconsin. Augusta

5:16

was a fervently religious woman

5:19

and she isolated her sons from the outside

5:22

world, propagating a zealous

5:24

fear of sin, particularly carnal

5:27

sin. I'm

5:27

so anxious already. I'm

5:30

just, my body is tight. Ed's

5:33

formative environment marked by his father's

5:35

alcoholism and his

5:37

mother's domineering and puritanical

5:40

influence would later be described

5:42

as a breeding ground for

5:44

his disturbed behavior.

5:46

His mother died in 1945 and after her death, Gein

5:48

was left

5:51

alone in the farmhouse and this is when

5:53

he began to indulge in his morbid fascinations.

5:56

His crimes came to light. They didn't come to

5:58

light right away. It wasn't until

5:59

until 1957 when

6:02

a local woman Bernice Worden, who

6:04

actually owned a local store, disappeared.

6:07

Worden's son informed investigators

6:09

that Gein had been into that store the previous

6:11

evening and he was acting strangely and

6:14

had mentioned he'd returned the next morning.

6:16

So law enforcement heads out to Ed Gein's

6:19

farmhouse.

6:20

Upon their initial search, and this

6:22

again is 1957, law

6:24

enforcement officials were greeted by a scene

6:26

of unimaginable horror.

6:29

Now the farmhouse had already fallen

6:32

into disrepair, was really ramshackle.

6:35

It was a maze of garbage and

6:37

human remains. Investigators

6:40

found Bernice Worden's decapitated body in a shed

6:42

on the property. She'd been shot with a .22 caliber

6:45

rifle and then mutilated post-mortem.

6:48

Inside the house, authorities

6:51

discovered a grotesque collection of items

6:53

fashioned from human body parts.

6:57

Have you ever seen any of the crime scene

6:59

photos

7:00

of Ed Gein's house? Yes. Unbelievable.

7:04

They found masks made

7:06

from the skin of women's faces, complete

7:09

with the original hair and facial

7:11

features disturbingly preserved. Investigators

7:14

also found a collection of skulls, some

7:16

of which he had mounted on his bedposts.

7:20

Among the most macabre artifacts

7:23

were a box full of preserved female

7:26

genitalia, a belt

7:29

made out of female nipples, a pair

7:31

of human lips being used as

7:33

a window shade pole, a

7:36

lampshade and several chair seats

7:38

that were made from human skin,

7:40

also a corset-like garment made

7:42

from a human torso. It's

7:45

very... Very buffalo bill. Very

7:47

buffalo bill. Gein's perverse

7:49

craft extended beyond body parts

7:52

to the personal belongings of his victims

7:55

as well. Police found clothing

7:57

and jewelry belonging to local women

7:59

who had been...

7:59

been recently buried, signaling

8:02

that Gein's grave robbing was not limited

8:04

to just body parts alone. The

8:07

grisly scene painted a stark portrait

8:09

of Gein's twisted psyche, revealing

8:11

the depths of his necrophiliac tendencies

8:14

and his obsession with the female form, particularly

8:17

those resembling his late mother.

8:20

Are we going to skip past the particulars of that part

8:22

of it?

8:29

Yeah, we're going to skip

8:32

past that. I think people know

8:34

what that's all about. Gein

8:37

was immediately arrested and charged with the

8:39

murder of Bernice Worden. During

8:41

the questioning,

8:42

Gein admitted to murders of two women,

8:45

Worden and another local woman, Mary

8:47

Hogan. He also confessed

8:50

to nocturnal visits to the local graveyard.

8:53

To steal jewelry. And

8:55

body parts. He'd been doing this for years

8:58

and years and years. The

9:00

grave robbing aspect of Ed Gein's crimes

9:03

adds a really chilling dimension

9:05

to this already shocking case. According

9:08

to his own confessions,

9:10

Gein started robbing graves

9:12

right after the death of his mother in 1945. So 12

9:16

years he was robbing graves and no

9:18

one caught him.

9:19

Did he ever, do you

9:22

know, disturb his own mother's

9:24

grave? That's a great question.

9:27

I don't think so. There's a theory that

9:29

he did. In fact, Werner Horsog,

9:32

the filmmaker, wanted to test

9:34

that theory that Gein had

9:36

already dug up his own mother. And the only

9:38

way to do it was to engage in

9:41

the crime of digging up the corpse themselves.

9:44

He drove down from Alaska with

9:46

a German producer, but they backed

9:48

out in the last minutes. Probably

9:52

wise. Yeah, probably a good idea. I

9:54

suppose they could have asked for permission,

9:56

but... It sounds like it was a

9:58

beer-fueled advantage. He

10:01

started robbing graves and tried

10:04

to make a woman

10:06

suit

10:07

with torso flesh but according

10:09

to his testimony it smelled too bad.

10:13

In his confession, Gein described entering

10:15

a days like state in which he would

10:17

be inexplicably drawn to the local

10:19

cemetery. According to Harold

10:22

Schechter's account in Deviant,

10:24

the shocking true story of Ed Gein, the

10:26

original psycho, Gein would keep

10:28

a keen eye on the obituaries published

10:31

in the local newspaper. He specifically

10:33

sought out the graves of recently deceased,

10:35

middle aged women. And

10:37

he was

10:37

meticulous, he conducted his grave robbing

10:40

under the cover of darkness equipped with basic

10:42

digging tools. He would dig up the graves, remove

10:44

the bodies, or parts of them anyway, and

10:47

then fill the graves back in leaving

10:49

little trace of his morbid activity. Gein

10:51

treated these nighttime expeditions almost like

10:54

a regular errand or task, going

10:56

about it with a certain methodical meticulousness

10:59

that really belied

11:01

the horrific nature of these actions. It

11:03

was like he was just going down for a quart of milk. In

11:05

his interviews with investigators, Gein

11:07

claimed to have been in this hypnotic

11:10

kind of trance during these grave robbing

11:12

sprees. And at times he would quote,

11:14

awaken from this trance and find himself

11:17

at the grave of a recently interred

11:19

woman. He insisted that on

11:21

some occasions he returned the bodies to

11:23

the graves if he came out of the trance before

11:25

he had taken them home. Creepy.

11:28

Honest to God. In

11:30

the trial that followed, the discussion centered

11:33

on Gein's mental fitness, of

11:35

course. Ultimately, he was found

11:37

not guilty by reason of insanity

11:40

and committed to the Central State Hospital

11:42

for the criminally insane.

11:44

Yeah, it would be hard to

11:47

buy the idea that someone who

11:49

behaved this way wasn't insane.

11:51

Yeah. And it's really disturbing

11:54

to think that if what he

11:56

is saying is true, he would just awaken

11:59

at an open

11:59

grave, what's going

12:02

on there? Well, I mean, he was traumatized

12:04

as a child. You know, his mother was

12:07

so overbearing and so rough

12:09

on him. And the idea was

12:11

that the entire world and everything

12:14

in it was sinful. And so

12:16

he wasn't allowed to have friends, and

12:19

he wasn't allowed to like talk to other people

12:21

because she was the only one

12:23

who was safe. And so he kind

12:25

of developed this weird like obsession

12:28

with her, and he missed her so terribly

12:30

when she died, which is why

12:33

I wondered if maybe he had tried digging

12:35

her up. Because he

12:37

just kept trying to find replacements.

12:39

Yeah. Yeah. What

12:41

you're saying is dead on psychologists who examined

12:43

Gein's case point to his upbringing

12:46

as the significant factor in the development

12:49

of his pathologies. His

12:51

mother's puritanical teaching combined

12:53

with his isolation likely contributed to

12:55

his distorted view of women and sex.

12:58

His grave robbing and subsequent creation of items

13:01

from human remains have been interpreted

13:03

as a twisted attempt to keep his mother's

13:05

memory alive, with his victims

13:08

often bearing a physical

13:09

resemblance to his mother, Augusta.

13:12

Yeah. Gein died of respiratory

13:15

and heart failure at the Mendota

13:17

Mental Facility in 1984, marking the

13:20

end of a very dark chapter

13:22

in American crime history.

13:24

I didn't realize it was that late

13:27

into the almost the mid 80s.

13:28

He was institutionalized for 25 years. Wow.

13:32

His farmhouse was destroyed in a suspicious

13:34

arson attack in 1958, understandably.

13:37

Fair enough. Somebody was going to

13:39

do it. And his 195 acre

13:41

property was sold at auction. The site

13:44

of Gein's house is still a location

13:46

of morbid fascination, attracting

13:48

tourists and the curious, despite

13:51

its grim history.

13:52

That's not a place I would want to metal detect.

13:55

No, no. Although kind

13:57

of. Stop. source

14:00

information

14:01

inside the mind of Ed Gein from Katherine

14:03

Ramsland, a shocking true story of Ed Gein,

14:05

the original psycho by Harold Schechter,

14:08

the ghoul of Plainfield by

14:10

Mark Gatto, and the man who inspired

14:12

Psycho, Ed Gein's horrific story,

14:15

which came from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

14:19

We saw one of Ed Gein's teeth

14:23

at the East Alcatraz Museum

14:25

when we were in Pigeon Forge. Did

14:27

we?

14:28

Yeah. Why don't I remember that? I feel like

14:30

it had, there was something to do with a letter. Like

14:33

he had pulled it out himself and enclosed it

14:35

in a letter to someone. Wow. Yeah,

14:38

it was rough.

14:38

That's creepy. Yeah.

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darling Kat and Jethro, I'm

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I'm a long time listener, first time caller coming

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I'm glad you opened

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elves, and slat and paten is

21:16

one of my favorites. Slat and paten.

21:18

Big thanks to Macon for

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sending me this topic suggestion.

21:23

Tell me all about slat and paten.

21:26

Paten. Slat and paten. Slat and paten.

21:28

Slat and paten, or slat and pat,

21:31

as she is sometimes called, is

21:33

a woodland creature. So just

21:35

a real quick side note, there are some

21:38

words that came up in my

21:41

research that were from Danish

21:43

articles. So I do

21:45

not have, Blay, I was translating

21:48

like I'm So

21:50

there are some words that I didn't even, I

21:52

wasn't able to find pronunciation

21:54

help for. So if you are

21:57

a Nordlander,

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and

21:59

And you hear me say something

22:02

and you go, well that's not right, I apologize,

22:05

it wasn't intentional, I did my very

22:07

best.

22:08

Right, okay. Okay. I

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think that's a reasonable statement. Thank you. This

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woodland creature, also referred

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to as an elkone, an elf

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woman, but unlike an

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elopige, or an elf girl, or

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a wood nymph,

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which are generally described as very beautiful,

22:25

the slattern pat is described

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by a different characteristic

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as having extremely

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long breasts.

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Not full and

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luscious, just long. Very

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long. How long? The

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boobs of the slattern pat, it's said,

22:44

hang all the way down to the knee

22:46

area. That's what it sounds like my grandmother. In 2010,

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a

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notable sculpture by renowned

22:53

Danish artist, Bjorn

22:55

Nordgaard was unveiled at

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Axelthorff, a public square

23:00

in central Copenhagen in Denmark.

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The sculpture is titled Hanging

23:06

Tits and Her Daughters from Roklebokleshom.

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Is that what her name means, Hanging Tits?

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Hanging Tits. No. This

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piece of art garnered much attention, as

23:17

you can imagine. Right. But

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Nordgaard drew his inspiration

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from a local church, located

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outside the city where this sculpture

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was placed, where a wood carver

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named Abel Schroeder, the

23:32

Younger, had crafted in 1660

23:34

a sculptural pillar known

23:37

as Hanging Tits. This

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pillar served as a support

23:43

for the church pulpit.

23:44

Really? That

23:46

sounds like a banging church. Well, this

23:48

long tittied pillar left a lasting

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impression on Nordgaard, influencing

23:54

his own artistic creation in

23:56

town.

23:56

Thanks for the memories. You can imagine

23:58

if this image.

23:59

in town was a controversial

24:03

idea. The vibe at the church must

24:05

be amazing. And Slatt and Patton

24:08

are usually regarded as being a mix

24:10

of an elf and a troll, leaning

24:13

ever so slightly more toward troll.

24:16

When she has been seen, it's usually

24:18

in a situation where she's very busy.

24:20

Well, trolls, they've

24:22

got quite a schedule to take. So much going on.

24:25

Yeah, you've gotta live under that bridge.

24:28

And if you are able to spot

24:30

her, it's because she's got a lot going on and she can't

24:32

pay attention all the time to who's

24:34

watching. She's a nimble nymph,

24:37

it said. But when she is spotted,

24:39

it said, she's often carrying

24:42

a child on her back. This child,

24:45

it said, could nurse.

24:46

Really? Yeah.

24:49

Wow. Her tig old biddies could be thrown

24:51

over her shoulder so that the child could

24:54

feed, even if carried on her

24:56

back while she's scootlin' around. Making

24:58

her way in the world today.

25:00

That takes everything you've got. In

25:02

situations where the slat and pat is

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chased, she simply throws

25:07

her fun bags over her shoulders so

25:09

they're not in the way while she runs.

25:12

Because if you're hitting your nips with

25:14

your knees while you're...

25:16

Chafing. Chafing, it

25:19

ruins your aerodynamic abilities.

25:23

There might end up being tangling. No

25:25

one wants that.

25:26

Nobody appreciates a good boob tangle

25:28

anymore. While normal

25:30

trolls are usually found in the woods,

25:33

slat and pats were most often

25:35

seen on either the moor or

25:37

by streams where they collected herbs

25:39

and care for their young.

25:41

I wonder if normal trolls resent

25:43

being called that. Just average

25:46

regular old trolls? Yeah, run-of-the-mill

25:48

trolls. Oh fine, just because

25:50

I don't live on the moor. Now, if you'll

25:52

excuse me, I have some billy goats

25:55

I need to hassle.

25:55

Slat and pat were said to work with the trolls

25:58

of the region, the regular.

25:59

older, old, average, not

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important trolls, and performed spells

26:04

for them. They were long-tatered

26:07

witches for the other mystical

26:09

creatures, and they had great magical powers.

26:12

Most tales involve them running,

26:15

usually from Odin himself, who

26:17

was either passing by or

26:19

riding horses during wild

26:21

hunts, and if Odin spotted

26:24

a slat in pattern, he was

26:27

on the hunt. Unclear why

26:29

kings did not like the slat

26:32

in pattern. It doesn't seem to me

26:34

like they're mischievous in any way, but

26:36

it does seem as though they are considered

26:38

the enemy of those not

26:41

living in the magical community in

26:43

lore, if you understand what I mean.

26:45

I think having those types of Tiggle

26:47

Biddies should qualify you

26:49

for higher status in society.

26:52

You think so? Yeah, of

26:53

course. You can do so many things with them.

26:56

Repel off buildings, for example.

26:58

If Rapunzel had Tiggle Biddies

27:01

like that, it wouldn't be her hair she was letting

27:03

down. Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let

27:05

down your Tiggle Biddies, and hurry

27:07

up, there's a billy goat after me.

27:09

Then, or told not to sleep

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on the moor, were by streams, as

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slat in pattern loved youthful

27:16

men. They were kind of

27:18

cougars in that way, and if they found them

27:20

sleeping, they would ravish them.

27:22

Really? But, if a young man

27:25

was into it,

27:28

she would reward him by letting him

27:32

drink her breast milk,

27:34

which would grant him magical abilities.

27:36

Oh, okay. Well then, yeah, alright, fine.

27:39

What kind of magical abilities? Unclear,

27:41

but apparently, you know, banging

27:44

wood nymphs is not considered

27:46

a magical ability, so I can't even imagine

27:48

the wonders that might be included with

27:51

just one sip of slat in pattern

27:53

boob juice. Now, as I said,

27:55

the legendary

27:58

figure, slat in pattern, is so funny.

27:59

opposed to symbolize fertility.

28:02

As you can imagine, she's obviously

28:05

given birth several times. She's

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fed a lot

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of babies from these

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ginormous memories. And

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so it makes sense that she would symbolize

28:17

fertility. Also keep in mind

28:19

that she has fish children. And

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so her boobs gotta

28:24

be long so that she can feed

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her fish children without getting

28:29

her hair wet.

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I see. It's like trawling. I

28:32

don't know what that is, but I know it's a fishing term

28:34

and so I approve. Okay. Because

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Slattenpaten has

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fish children, she's also considered

28:42

a water goddess. Now it's said

28:45

in a Zealand legend that King Volmer,

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a figure of the god Odin, would

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ride across the nation

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every night in search of the

28:55

Slattenpat, who he would then

28:57

shoot and throw over his saddle.

28:59

I don't know if it was like in one swoop or if it

29:02

had

29:02

to be in three, but every

29:04

morning she apparently came back to life.

29:06

Well, that's gotta be disconcerting. Yeah. And

29:09

also exhausting. They're like, oh great, now I've gotta

29:11

go out again and ride across the moors.

29:13

I guess there was some part of

29:15

the legend that said that she had to

29:17

bake bread and cut an X

29:19

on the top of the loaf in order

29:21

for the king to not,

29:24

I really didn't understand this

29:26

part, but I do wanna make bread

29:29

now. So the

29:32

historical journal, Skalk, published

29:34

an interpretation of a startling

29:37

archeological find from Bornholm

29:40

of some small figures that looked

29:42

kind of like little gold human figurines.

29:45

A lot of the items found in this

29:47

area were uncovered around 500

29:50

to 600 CE. One

29:55

of those figures in particular, a female

29:57

figure about four centimeters

29:59

long.

29:59

and three grams heavy has

30:02

attracted attention. A senior researcher

30:04

at the National Museum links them

30:07

with Slattenpatten. He thinks they're representing

30:10

our favorite long-knockered nymph.

30:12

Nice. Though there are a lot

30:15

of those in the region

30:17

who eliminate that as a possibility.

30:19

They're like, nope, that's not what it is. It's

30:21

just a gold figurine. It's a person.

30:24

Her toots aren't that long. Just

30:27

move on. I, however, like to think

30:29

that our Slattenpat, our

30:32

beautiful long-bazoongood friend,

30:35

has been forever immortalized

30:37

in gold because she sounds like fun. I

30:39

want to party with that chick. I found

30:41

my information from medium.com,

30:45

sn.dk, I used

30:48

a lot of Google Translate, demonic

30:50

paradise fandom, and

30:52

just a little bit of Wikipedia.

30:54

Just a little bit. Just a little

30:56

smidgy. Thanks for that stroll

30:58

down Mamrie Lane. Guys,

31:00

we have to go. I'm out of tit jokes. Actually,

31:03

I was out five or ten minutes ago. Bazoongas.

31:06

Golden bozos. Ta-tas. Ticking

31:08

time bags, as Michael Scott called them. I

31:11

forgot about that. Milk monsters.

31:14

Okay. Bouncers. Fleshy mounds.

31:17

Dirty pillows. Dirty pillows. Remember

31:19

that one? I love that one. Isn't that used

31:21

in Carrie? Didn't Carrie's mom

31:24

refer to her breasts as her dirty pillows?

31:26

God, I think you're right. Yeah. I'd forgotten about

31:28

that. Anyway, guys,

31:31

thanks for hanging out with us, you and your

31:33

dirty pillows, and we'll see

31:35

you next time.

31:36

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