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What The Folklore?

What the Folklore

A comedy podcast that exposes the absurd side of folklore. Each week we read a story, fix plotholes and create new ones, and invent unintended connections between tales.

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#504
Tuesday · 1 hr 29 min
Episode 501: READY THE WOMAN CATAPULT!
Welcome to Season 2! Our inaugural story is "Cherry the Frog Bride", a Grimm tale that starts silly and becomes increasingly...well...Grimm.
#503
September 15 · 1 hr 42 min
Episode 500: Running the Podcast in Admin Mode (AKA Alergic to Information) {AKA Animal Alphabet, 2nd Edition}
Episode 500
#502
September 8 · 56 min
Episode 499: I AM THE HORSE
This week, on the eve of episode 500, we read "The Baker's Apprentice", a story that serves as a tortured metaphor for the kingdom of Heaven, but works great as a metaphor for the worst cake you've ever heard of.
#501
September 1 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 498: The Kindly Wizard, Updog
This week, after a brief look at the stupid, stupid future of Golf, we journey to Scandinavia for the tale of "Wet George"
#500
August 19 · 58 min
Episode 497: The Moon is Full of Meat
What's the best way to chill out and relax after the 5-Part Epic of Sundiata? Well, I can think of several, but the one Carman CHOSE is to read a Rootabaga Tales double feature...so please enjoy "How The Potato-Faced Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning" and "Pokerface the Baboon and Hotdog the Tiger"
#499
August 11 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 496: At Last, I Have Told You About Sundiata (The Epic of Sundiata, Part 5)
Are we...are we free???
#498
July 28 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 495: A Breadcrumb Trail of Venerable Old Men (The Epic of Sundiata, Part 4)
Oh, hey, look at that...still talking about Sundiata this week!
#497
July 21 · 1 hr 2 min
Episode 494: Might as Well be Spectacularly Wrong (The Epic of Sundiata, Part 3)
Think you've heard enough about Sundiata yet? Because I have terrible news...
#496
July 14 · 1 hr 3 min
Episode 493: Responsible for 1/9th of a Baby (The Epic of Sundiata, Part 2)
This week, we FINALLY hear about Sundiata! Or Do We??? (We do).
#495
July 7 · 58 min
Episode 492: Some of Them are Djinn, All of Them are Bros (The Epic of Sundiata, Part 1)
TW: Brief description of marital SA between 51:38 and 52:00 After probably-months of teasing, it is time to begin another epic, this time "The Epic of Sundiata". And by "begin", I of course mean "we'll get around to talking about him eventually, maybe".
#494
June 30 · 1 hr 3 min
Episode 491: Everything Leads Back to Rock
Have you seen the movie "Her"? No? Go check out the trailer...okay, got it? Now you basically understand this week's story, "The Wonderful Stone". Except instead of Scarlet Johansson's disembodied voice, just picture a cool rock.
#493
June 23 · 1 hr 1 min
Episode 490: A Miserable Soundscape of Love
This week we read "The Tale of Katcha and the Devil: The Story of a Clinging Vine", which is a story we can all agree we've never read before. 100% sure about that, as are you. Right??
#492
June 16 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 489: The Fish are Extremely Armed
Enticed by Carman's cryptic clue of "Grandpa, Man-eating, Egg", we dive headfirst this week into "The Legend of Aji Saka". It for sure has each of those things in it.
#491
May 26 · 1 hr 1 min
Episode 488: Detective Tardigrade is on the Case!
After reading a much-too-long epic (that really could've been boiled down to a single episode), we decided we needed a palette cleanser. For some reason, we also decided that palette cleanser would be Hans Christian Andersen. This week, we read "The Rose Elf".
#490
May 19 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 487: Suplex the Moon (The Story of Harap Alb, Part 3)
This week on WTFolklore, we finally conclude the epic known as "The Story of Harap Alb", with perhaps the most pitiful, confusing "Animal A-Team" we've yet encountered on the podcast.
#489
May 12 · 1 hr 5 min
Episode 486: The Wrong Eyes Blinking (The Story of Harap Alb, Part 2)
This week on WTFolklore, cooler heads prevail, and instead of alternating back and forth between epics, we pick up where we left off last time and read Chapters 2 and 3 of "The Story of Harap Alb", titled "Under the Power of Bald-Man" and "The Bear's Lettuce and The Stag's Precious Stones"
#488
May 5 · 59 min
Episode 485: Playing Bridge with the Boys in a Bear Suit (The Story of Harap Alb, Part 1)
This week on WTFolklore, we do what we've always done best: complain about commercials. Then we read Chapter 1 of "The Story of Harap Alb", which is itself titled "The Ember-Eating Flying Horse"
#487
April 15 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 484: The Wizard of Teeth (The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather Part 3)
Even though it says "Part 3" in the title, we close out Part 2 of "The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather" this week, thus bringing an end to our tale of a guy so dumb and annoying he caused the very concept of death to exist.
#486
March 31 · 56 min
Episode 483: Unanimous Vote from the Bug Council (The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather Part 2)
This week, we conclude at least Part 1 of The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather, having learned nothing about said Red Feather, but a surprising amount about bugs, their legs, and the lexicon of demons and wizards.
#485
March 24 · 48 min
Episode 482: Part 1 of Part 1 of ? (Part 1)
This week on WTFolklore, we begin an unexpectedly long journey into "The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather", a Zuñi Folktale that we've barely scratched the surface on, if the episode title serves as any indication

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