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Study 151 - Sir Buzz / The Blue Light (Patreon)

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2025-12-11 16:00:05
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Indian fairy tale Sir Buzz gets a strange study this week, along with its Grimm variant The Blue Light! Vampires, tigers and bee-men, OH MY!

Special thanks to reader Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions, for his voice, production and the rockin' tunes!

Some light reading: Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales

Grab your tix for The Smith Circle: A Clark Ashton Smith Conference on Saturday 1/10/26!

Today's episode features selected arrangements from Bach's Concerto No. 3 in D major, BWV 1054: II. Adagio e piano sempre as well as Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578.

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G. Gorgo

Love the shout-out to Daniel Ashliman. His website is an incredible resource.

Jason Thompson

Old fairytales have crazy body counts of casual people who fight the heroes! There’s a lot of this in the Arabian Nights too!

Jason Thompson

About The Smith Circle: I’m also a panelist! So come by and listen to me (and other people) ramble about Smith’s artwork! ;)

REO Jackwagon

Very fun running through various parallel versions of various parallel folklore. Super-enjoyable format. 😄

Jim Cannon

I believe Puss in Boots dealt with a shapeshifting ogre in similar fashion. Tricked the ogre into assuming the form of a mouse and then just ate it.

Gideon Falcon

With the princess being weighed in flowers, it puts me in mind of many other instances in folklore where a maiden or (more especially) princess is described as beautiful because of how absurdly FRAGILE she is. Like the Princess and the Pea: any woman who could sleep perfectly fine with a pea under her mattress, or rather under SIX mattresses, is apparently far too brutish and unrefined to be a REAL princess. I even recall one story, I forget if from India or further east, where the Princess was described as so dainty that she literally couldn't WALK on her own, without feeling stabbing pain in her inhumanly tiny feet. It's just part of that same age-old patriarchal insecurity that DEMANDS that women be not just subservient or dependant, but utterly helpless without a big macho alpha chad male to go throw rocks at things for her. Even before considering the truly horrific bodily mutilations such beauty standards have pushed women towards in various cultures, it just baffles me that people would see appeal and attractiveness in a trait that just sounds so exhausting to deal with.

Gideon Falcon

Same resolution in the Spiderwick Chronicles, in keeping with the fairt tale inspirations for it. The previously overwhelmingly powerful ogre turns into a bird, allowing the VERY bird-hungry hobgoblin to straight up eat him.

Newk

If it's one thing I've learned from listening to your podcast it's that you're never supposed to trust the suit of armor so the concept of a suit of armor at the airport passing out drinks It's counterintuitive to everything I've learned here Chad

Jamie Malaika Chatelin (she/her)

I’ve also tried and failed to get through Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales. One of the authors did an interview on a different podcast that I like. Although I’m still not smart enough to read the paper it did give me a much better understanding of the concept and methods that the paper is about. I highly recommend you listen to it and maybe more episodes of the podcast if fairytales are a form of short stories you enjoy. https://grimmreading.podbean.com/e/an-interview-with-dr-jamie-tehrani-on-the-origins-of-fairy-tales/ Speaking of fairytales I’d like to recommend that I always thoroughly enjoy reading The Robber Bridegroom collected by the brothers grimm. A girl is betrothed to a rich man who lures her to his home, where she discovers he's the leader of a cannibalistic gang of robbers

DayGloTigerShark

I was interpreting it that the boy couldn't carry the box anymore as Sir Buzz was manifesting being why he dropped it. Which may also be why he isn't as unforgiving as most supernatural beings in fairytales tend to be after they're handled improperly.

Robert Smith

As the father of a son who just turned 18, Sir Buzz felt both prophetic and deeply, deeply terrifying.

Wulf Mungus

If there is one take away from these stories... It's that it never good to be a soldier...

Corey Wittig

I’ve been working on a story that I’m hoping to turn into a book (would be a first for me) that includes elements of the tinderbox including the huge eyed dogs! (Large as mill stones on one of them but I prefer the first dog with its dinner plate sized eyes). I was also loving your discussion of the Soldier and Death—during my last years as a school librarian (where I practiced oral storytelling with the younger kids) I started pillaging Henson’s The Storyteller when I needed to learn a new one. I told The Soldier and Death (as well as The Three Ravens) to K-2nd grade students in a veeery similar fashion to old John Hurt. I even had a sack and random hand puppets for demons as props. It was great!

Falconhoof

I think the common thread you've missed between these two stories, is a protagonist who gains the services of a magical being, and then uses them for incredibly mundane ends. In Sir Buzz, the son has a genie at his disposal, and then uses his first wish to make a door dash order (which he intended to pay for). In The Blue Light, the soldier gets the dwarf to kidnap a princess, just so that she can clean up his hotel room. Perhaps I've been spoiled by the convenience of modern life, but I think most people could dream bigger than food delivery and housekeeping service.