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The Medieval Monster on Your Coffee Cup: The True Story of Melusine

That twin-tailed figure on your Starbucks cup isn't a mermaid. She's a melusine—a half-serpent monster from medieval French legend who married a murderer, bore him ten deformed children, built him an empire, and flew away screaming when he discovered what she really was. But Melusine wasn't folklore. She was propaganda—invented by a dying dynasty to transform the rumors destroying them into proof of their divine right to rule. This is the true story of how one of history's most successful lies was created, how it escaped the control of the family that made it, and how it ended up on three billion coffee cups a year. 📜 CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 — The Woman on Your Coffee Cup 00:02:02 — Chapter 1: The Cry Before Death 00:07:31 — Chapter 2: The Fountain of Thirst 00:13:48 — Chapter 3: The Romance of Melusine 00:24:39 — Chapter 4: The Broken Promise 00:36:04 — Chapter 5: The Inheritance 00:42:29 — Chapter 6: The Family That Needed a Monster 00:51:30 — Chapter 7: The Book That Conquered Europe 00:57:18 — Chapter 8: The Serpent Escapes 01:06:28 — Chapter 9: The Logo and the Lie 01:12:18 — Conclusion: The Saturday Self 🕯️ ABOUT THE MIDNIGHT ARCHIVES We illuminate the dark corners of history—the stories that power tried to bury, the truths that time tried to erase. Subscribe to keep the candle lit. 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Jean d'Arras, "Roman de Mélusine" (1393) Coudrette, "Le Roman de Mélusine" (c. 1401) Donald Maddox & Sara Sturm-Maddox, "Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France" Françoise Clier-Colombani, "La fée Mélusine au Moyen Âge" Stephen Knight, "Melusine: The Medieval Metamorphoses of a Founding Myth" #Melusine #Starbucks #MedievalHistory #DarkHistory #FrenchHistory #Mythology #Documentary #TheMidnightArchives