The Demon’s Dance Transcript
Micah (Knob Twister): 0:05
Welcome to Tales of Bedlam. I'm your host, knob Twister. Today we have another tale from Slavic folklore in our deep dive.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 0:17
Sweet, why'd we stop?
Micah (Knob Twister): 0:20
I don't know. Oh, our deep dive into Polish sausages. I love polish sausages. This encompasses the folklore of slavic peoples found in russia, ukraine, poland, bulgaria, serbia a bunch of different places today's tale is the demon's dance the's Dance and apparently this is Polish. It says right on my paper. I love Polish sausage.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 0:50
Sausage.
Micah (Knob Twister): 0:52
Dustin, will you please start?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 0:56
I guess I will. You like that, don't you no. No, you like that, don't you no.
Micah (Knob Twister): 1:09
You're just making snacks that I'm going to have to edit out. Okay, I'm starting.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 1:15
When the wind throws the dust up in the air and whirls it around in a dry eddy, it shows the dance of an evil spirit Interesting.
Micah (Knob Twister): 1:27
Do you know what a dry Eddie is?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 1:29
Yeah, it's like a little tornado.
Micah (Knob Twister): 1:32
Well, I just had to bring this up because the urban dictionary no, you Googled that. No, I've heard this before. So a dry Eddie is actually the opposite of a wet Willie.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 1:51
Do you know what the opposite of a wet Willie is Dustin what they drag something dry out of your ear.
Micah (Knob Twister): 1:55
Would you like me?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 1:55
to show you no, if you touch my ear. I'll punch your face.
Micah (Knob Twister): 1:59
Well, it won't have anything to do with your ear. See, I'm supposed to stick my finger in my ear and pull out some earwax and quickly shove it into your mouth. That's a dry Eddie this conversation is over.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 2:13
What the H-E double hockey sticks?
Micah (Knob Twister): 2:17
Whenever you see this, shut up at once all the doors and windows in your hut, or it will certainly do some mischief to your bones.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 2:28
Put your finger anywhere near my face, I'm going to do mischief to your bones. Yep.
Micah (Knob Twister): 2:31
Mischief.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 2:33
If, however, you are courageous and wish to obtain riches at the sacrifice of your soul, I'm going to have to go ahead and say no.
Micah (Knob Twister): 2:41
Why do you always have to give your soul up for this stuff?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 2:44
It's what it is, man, it's the most valuable thing.
Micah (Knob Twister): 2:47
Couldn't you just give up a hangnail?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 2:50
Who wants a hangnail? I don't know. It's your soul, your eternal soul. Why is that so?
Micah (Knob Twister): 2:58
valuable, priceless.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 3:02
Yeah, you've lost me. You wish to obtain riches at the sacrifice of your soul. Take a new knife, an old knife, a new knife that has been sprinkled with holy water. How do you put holes in water and throw it dexterously into the very middle of the whirlwind? Sounds like a very bad plan.
Micah (Knob Twister): 3:25
And throw it dexterously into the very middle of the whirlwind Sounds like a very bad plan. One day, a fearless young peasant, angry with the demon who, in the shape of a hurricane, had blown off the roof of his barn, took up a new consecrated knife because I'm always keeping those around my person and stuck it in the ground in the very center of the dust. Eddy.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 3:50
That's not what the instructions said to do.
Micah (Knob Twister): 3:57
It said to chuck it very dexterously in the middle of it. He did.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 3:59
He hit the very middle. It said he stuck it in the ground. Oh, you think he threw it and then it stuck in the ground. Yeah, oh, I'm envisioning him standing there and he's stabbing it in the ground. Oh, oh, right, in a moment the demon appeared bent double, as if suffering in great pain and trembling with fear. He asks the peasant what he wanted with him. Mend, my barn, cried the man in great fury.
Micah (Knob Twister): 4:27
Fill up my. He wanted with him Mend, my barn, cried the man in great fury. Fill up my potato hole with gold, which is better than potatoes.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 4:32
Fill up my potato hole with gold. Is that like a pie hole? Then bring to my hut a keg of brandy and three sides of bacon. Yeah, buddy, he's got it going on.
Micah (Knob Twister): 4:46
Brandy bacon have you? Ever had brandy bacon. I have. I've drank brandy and ate bacon.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 4:57
Does that count?
Micah (Knob Twister): 4:58
It's bacon that has been marinated in brown sugar and brandy and then cooked.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:02
It sounds amazing to me.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:04
It's good stuff, I'd eat it. I will do it. All answered the demon, but first take the knife out of the ground. It hurts me cruelly.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:14
Too bad. No, cried the peasant First. Do what I tell you oh the obedience spirit. Finally, someone had some sense. Yeah, the obedience spirit did all that was demanded of him. Sometime after this, the young peasant fell sick.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:32
Yeah, from all that cheap brandy.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:35
Clogged up his arteries with the bacon. Yep Drank the brandy.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:39
Should have asked for salad and tomatoes. As he was about to die, his friends, who were gathered around him, saw the demon standing at the head of the bed waiting for his soul. How does that work? Does the demon just?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:58
like.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:58
Scott Exciton Suck it up like a whippet or something. Did you say whippet? Yeah, did you just reference like a 70s drug culture well, he's standing over the bed just waiting for the soul to float up and he just like maybe he's got a little, uh, a little hand back like ghost Ghostbusters sucks it out. What were those called the Dust Devils? Yeah, the Dust Devils. There you go, and it's a devil.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 6:33
And then he just keeps it with him.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:36
Maybe there's more to that name than we think.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 6:38
That's why I don't use the things. So he's there waiting to die, and so they all saw the demon.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:45
Yes, waiting for his soul.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 6:48
They all lamented his miserable fate and his godfather said I wish I could do a good godfather impression. I don't have to think about it for a minute. It's okay, I can edit it out. You come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding. He'd come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding. If, instead of asking for money, he shot the demon with a silver bullet, he would have lived to be an old man and have saved his soul.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 7:19
Except you read that wrong. No, I didn't. Really. If, instead of asking for money, he had shot the demon with a silver bullet, he would have lived. Try again. Oh my god. Yeah, instead of asking for money, he had shot the demon with a silver button. However, you do that, he would have lived to be an old man and have saved his soul. Is that the end of it? Yeah, what?
Micah (Knob Twister): 7:52
they thought that if they loaded like a shotgun or a blunder blaster what are they called blunder blasters or something blunderbuss, blunderbust, apologize with like a silver button that it would be able to kill a bulletproof witch or demon.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 8:10
Or werewolf.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:12
Yeah, Silver bullet right, yep.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 8:14
Huh. Well, that's advice came a little late. Where was the godfather prior prior? I don't know, but this story doesn't make any sense shooting gangsters is the moral of the story keep a silver button and a blunderbuss around I think the moral of the story is to leave.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:41
Leave the demons alone alone.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 8:43
Well, he got a potato hole full of gold.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:46
But he died, it's true. I wonder if he got to spend any of it.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 8:52
I wonder if there's something lost in the translation, because that just didn't seem like it meant anything at all. It really didn't.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:59
A lot of the folklore tales that we read don't seem to have a deeper meaning.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:06
That's true, but this one didn't even really make sense. The first part's more like a story.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:13
Maybe it's a greed thing, because the godfather said instead of asking for money.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:19
Oh, he should have just shot him.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:22
Mm-hmm. What if he didn't have a blunderbuss and he couldn't have shot him? Maybe he was all out of silver buttons because he was so poor?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:32
No, he had a potato hole full of gold.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:35
That was before he asked the demon for the gold.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:40
Did he ever take the knife out of the ground? Apparently, he just left the knife in the ground.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:46
Well, he had. Yeah, because he said he'd take the knife out after the demon filled the potato hole.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:52
That's when you should have brought the silver button.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:54
That's when you should have shot him.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:57
We're getting it figured out now. We found the loophole. Make the deal with the devil, then shoot him with the silver button.
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:05
And then kill the devil.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 10:07
I don't know. I don't even know what's going on.
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:12
That sounds to be an impossible task. You would have to ask John Wick to come help you.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 10:18
I'm going to have to get a holy knife and start chucking it at whirlwinds.
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:25
I think you'd do better with the donkeys.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 10:32
I'll chuck it at donkeys too.
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:34
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Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 10:39
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Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 11:19
Swag. Good night Bye that was weird.
Micah (Knob Twister): 11:36
That one, I don't know, I guess that one went. I thought that was cooler when I first um gone through it. But but, it didn't quite that. One's probably going to be a bonus anyway because it's so short.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 11:54
It was just weird. It was a weird story. It's a page long and it switched gears three times.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:04
How does that?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:06
even work Good story writing. It started out like a Native American tale.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:12
Yeah.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:12
Kind of given background and then all of a sudden there's action, uh-huh.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:17
With the peasant.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:19
And then he's just dead.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:20
In an empty potato hole. That sounds bad.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:24
I'm in my barn Missing my potatoes. I make a t-shirt. I'm in my barn Missing my potatoes. That'd make a good t-shirt. I'm in my barn, people ask.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:34
I need some bacon. What's that mean, brandy?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:37
I'm in my barn. What's that mean? Mend it, you can, uh ooh. Another good shirt would be uh Dry Eddie Sicko.