A story about the cultural importance of terrifying children with Yxavel Magno Dino

So when I found out that you wanted to talk about your family's folk tales or tales from your cultural background, I thought, okay, I'll do the same.

What is my cultural background? And then I was thinking, I could tell you outrageous stories about the things my family gets up to in England, because I'm from England.

I'm from the West Country.

Well, not really West Country.

I'm from the Gloucestershire area, halfway between Gloucester and Bristol.

But I thought, no, I'm not going to tell you those outrageous stories from my family's past.

I'll do that in another episode.

And then I started to think, well, what are the traditional stories of England and Britain? And then that was sort of, you know, like it made me think about politics.

And I don't know if you've noticed that in the news lately, there's been a sort of an anti-immigration movement in Britain where they put up the English flag, which is the St. George cross.

And in Scotland, they put up the St. Andrew's flag, which, And they're putting it up on like roundabouts and people put them up in flats on the balconies and stuff.

And I was thinking, and when they started happening, I think it was in 2025 was when it kicked off.

It struck me as really odd because I have done the stories of – I don't think I've done St. Andrew, but I've definitely done St. George and St. Patrick on my podcast.

And so I had to learn all about those two saints.

And I know St. Andrew as well.

People don't stop and think about who they actually were.

So it's like St. George is the best example.

So he's really strongly associated with Britain.

And people know the story of St. George slaying the dragon.

And like here in Australia, we had St. George Bank for years and there was the dragon in the costume.

It's all very cute and everything.

But so I thought, These people that are using it as a symbol of English nationalism, they do not realise the origin of that story because St George, he's not English.

St George is actually from, he was from Turkey.

He was a Greek, ethnically Greek guy from Turkey.

And it all goes back to the Crusades.

He was one of the Crusaders.