What The Folklore?

What the Spooklore 2021 continues this week with two tales from Appalachia. We're reading about Tailypo and The Bell Witch, though we did give a decidedly meatier spin to that second one.
 

Suggested talking points: Moss Planet, Monthly Finger Pruning, Autonomous O'Malley, Deep Bud, Beef Vs Machine, Ratsgiving, Beef Tokens

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What the Spooklore 2021 begins! We're not reading a singular story this week, but three tales about various haunted locations around New Orleans! Is there a surprise visit from our friend and yours the Spooktralizer? listen and find out!
 

Suggested talking points: The Witchy Spectrum,  Devil Seminars, Famously Sticky, The Scariest Ghost Story Dogs Tell, Haunted by Smash Mouth, Ghost Tesla Toilet Engine

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This week we're reading Dr. Know-All, which is Grimm Tale #98. Or it could've been the Griww brothers, accounts vary.  We hypothesize it may have been the origin of the farce, as well as the evolutionary junction for humans towards crabs.
 

Suggested talking points: Agents of the Nothing,  Doct Rs Us, A Fatal Amount of Food, A Doctorate in General Awareness

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This week we're reading The Devil and the Guachinango from the Philippines,  and given that title, you'd probably never guess which of those characters we find more sympathetic. Who are we kidding, if you've listened to the previous 306 episodes you've probably got a good idea
 

Suggested talking points: An Hit Wonder, The Urge, Devil-Sized Jars, Digging Holes for Exposure, Stuck Marrying a Devil in a 21 ft. Hole, Many Much More Money

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This week we're reading The Fisherman, which, i'm sure you surmised, given the title of the episode. I mean, what else could an episode title like that imply??
 

Suggested talking points: A Definite Bean Through-line, Critters of an Unpleasant and Potentially Poisonous Variety, Mermaid Law, Lift Down Things Up for Eat?, Aphorisms for Venture Capitalists

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This week we're reading The Candy Cottage, which is some flagrant Fairy propaganda, if we've ever seen any (and we have)

But first, did you know about the strange connection between Holes and Donnie Darko? You will, after the first twenty minutes of this week's show...

Suggested talking points: Dance skills directly inverse to exuberance, Liminal Home and Gardens, the cracker of passion, 4chan made manifest, The Wonka Gauntlet

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This week we're reading Five Times Beautiful, a Grecian variant of Snow White, with a bit of Goldilocks and Cinderella peppered in for flavor. Also, please, we're begging everyone, just leave the Sun alone...

Suggested talking points: Trapped Forever in the Pants Circle, Stan February, Who Would Think to Poison a Hat?, Ye Best Start Believing in the Tomb of Ftub, The Bread-to-Cake Spectrum

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Just read the title. Oh, and we're reading The Buried Moon (courtesy of Joseph Jacobs)

Suggested talking points: Ol' Jenkins, Welcome to Show, Crapterion Collection, Moons are Haute Couture, Neptune is Meowth, One Tiddyssippi

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This week on WTFolklore, we learn why the Mullberry Worm (more commonly Silkworm) kinda sorta looks like it has an ugly horse's head if you squint at it long enough, courtesy of the Chinese tale The Horse-Headed Daughter.

Suggested talking points:  Space Jam III- Time Jam, Extended Tylore,  The Fatalism-to-Podcaster Pipeline, Show Me the Horsefax!, The Origin of Email-Kidnapped Grandpas

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Back to our regularly scheduled business this week on WTFolklore: spending the first 15-20 minutes talking about pop-culture zeitgeists instead of what we should be doing. Then we move on to ACTUALLY telling the story of Ilya and Nightingale the Robber, from Russia

Suggested talking points:  The Slamjam Weaver, Trees Can And Should Kill People, Birdsonas, Award-Winning Bag of Hotdogs, 

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