Welcome to Folklore & Flourish.

In today’s episode, we enter The Sacrifice—the quiet and costly dimension of love. Across cultures and mythic traditions, love is not only feeling. It is offering. It is surrender. It is choosing another’s good when it costs something real.

Drawing from Hindu, Norse, Greek, and Yoruba traditions, today’s stories reveal love that pays a price: devotion that risks everything, loyalty that endures loss, and hearts that give without guarantee of return. These myths do not romanticize suffering. Instead, they ask a deeper question: when is sacrifice sacred—and when does it become self-erasure?

This episode invites reflection on what love asks of us, and what it does not. Where is the line between generosity and depletion? Between devotion and disappearance?

Rooted in folklore, spirituality, and reflective practice, today’s episode creates space to consider the weight of love’s cost—and the dignity of choosing it consciously.

This podcast honors stories as they were told and the wisdom they carry, offering space for reflection, reverence, and discernment.

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Welcome to Folklore & Flourish.

In today’s episode, we confront The Jealousy—the moment when love becomes tangled with fear, possession, and the terror of loss. Across myth and memory, jealousy does not arise from hatred, but from attachment tightened too far.

Drawing from Greek, Norse, Aztec, and Chinese traditions, today’s stories explore love that turns inward, fear that masquerades as devotion, and the quiet ways jealousy suffocates what it hopes to protect. From divine vengeance to mortal suspicion, these myths reveal how love fractures when it forgets trust.

This episode invites reflection on what we cling to when we are afraid to lose—and what fear asks us to release. Not to shame the feeling. Not to suppress it. But to recognize when love has stopped breathing.

Rooted in folklore, spirituality, and reflective practice, this episode creates space to soften the grip of fear and remember that love cannot be guarded into safety.

This podcast honors stories as they were told and the wisdom they carry, offering space for reflection, reckoning, and release.

NEW EPISODES DAILY.

Welcome to Folklore & Flourish.

In today’s episode, we enter The Betrayal—the moment when trust is broken and love is forced to reckon with pain. Across folklore, betrayal is not only an act of harm; it is a rupture that exposes truth, vulnerability, and the cost of devotion.

Drawing from Greek, Welsh, Hindu, and Japanese traditions, today’s stories explore lovers deceived, bonds shattered, and promises undone. From Medea’s abandonment to echoes of treachery that linger across lifetimes, these myths remind us that love wounds deeply because it mattered deeply.

This episode invites reflection on the betrayals that still echo within us. Not to justify them. Not to explain them away. But to acknowledge what was lost, what was broken, and what still asks to be witnessed.

Rooted in folklore, spirituality, and reflective practice, this episode holds space for grief without spectacle—and for healing that begins only when truth is named.

This podcast honors stories as they were told and the wisdom they carry, offering space for reflection, reckoning, and restoration.

NEW EPISODES DAILY.