Tales Checked
By Tales Checked
Categories: History
Every legend, checked against the record. Tales Checked investigates the stories everyone thinks they know — Lilith, the Plague Doctor, the Anunnaki — and tests them against the earliest surviving sources. New episode every Saturday. The audio edition of the Tales Checked video series.
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Recent episodes
- Prometheus Stole Fire. Zeus Punished Humanity. | Tales Checked EP03
Prometheus stole fire — and in Hesiod, mankind paid for it. This episode checks the popular hero against the Theogony and Works and Days, our oldest surviving Greek accounts: the trick at Mekone that Zeus saw through, the fire hidden and stolen back in a fennel stalk, and Pandora — made, in Zeus's…
- The Plague Doctor You Know Came Centuries After the Black Death
Scope note: this episode checks the beaked plague-doctor image — not whether plague doctors existed. Plague doctors were real; the famous beak enters the surviving evidence in the seventeenth century, not in the Black Death of 1347–1351.The plague doctor — beaked mask, waxed coat, crystal eyes…
- Adam's First Wife Was Invented in the Middle Ages — The Real Lilith Record
The "first wife of Adam" story has no ancient source: its earliest surviving text is a medieval book, The Alphabet of Ben Sira (c. 8th–10th century CE). Here is the full record, checked claim by claim.About this episodeLilith — Adam's "first wife," the demon of the night, the icon who refused to…
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