What The Folklore?

This week, on an unremarkable episode of WTFolklore, we read The Ram by French baroness, Madame d'Aulnoy. Wait...this sounds awfully familiar...

Suggested talking points: Six Point Ish Years, Brain TV,  Sexy Sad-Off,  Crown Town or Treasure (Nobody Rides for Free),  The Chip of the Century,  Two Days From Sheep Retirement

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Music used:
My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Recorder cover by Patrick Synnah)

Final Fantasy Victory Fanfare (FFVI Recorder Version)

Have you ever just...started talking and minutes to hours later realized you've gone completely off the goddamn rails and everyone is looking at you with a horrified expression? No? Well, We think this may be what happened the first time The Children of the Vultures was told in India. Thankfully, WTFolklore is here to apply a, shall we say, modern-day ripcord.

Suggested talking points: The Suggestion of Sound, Cult Juggling, The Day the Melons Bloom, Vitamin D (For Dance), The Handy Disney Pit, Put Your Faith in Phil Collins

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This week, WTFolklore reads the Nigerian tale, The Woman, Her Husband, Their Children, and the Dodo. This story features what may well be the single dumbest "protagonist" we've yet encountered, and we're like 300 stories deep into this endeavor, so that's saying something.

Suggested talking points: Secret Snacks, A Grim Spectrum of Entertainment, Pop-up Bird Barbershop,  The Sensitivity of Elephants, The Neighbor Without a Face

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This week, WTFolklore reads the Mexican tale Lord Oppossum Brings Fire to Humanity. Took us 297 episodes, but we've finally met a king who gives a damn about his subjects. Obviously it's not human.

Suggested talking points: Obligated to Perform, Fairytale Estate Sale, Take it to Icky Times, The Piss-end of an Opossum, The Original Tyler, The Big Three: Water, Fire, and Booze

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This week, after a little opening Cruella de Scourse,  WTFolklore reads The Three Lemons, from Italy.  On the happy-ending scale, is it an Immortal Moon Wife or a Breakfast of Stones? You'll have to tune in to find out!

Suggested talking points: Mouth Mutiny, A Thousand-Year Campaign to Ruin Dogs, Horniness Begets Hope, Blood Sausage Poptart, Wife Tree

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This week on WTFolklore, we're reading the Chinese tale,  The Waiting Maid's Parrot, and we make a startling number of bird-based revelations in record time. Oh yeah, we've still got it, baby.

Suggested talking points: Snaxedo, The Power of Small Appetizer Shrimps and a Friendly Smile, Old-Timey for "Horny", Shaking Your Leg to an Unnamed Dread, Lynyrd Feathyrd

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This week on WTFolklore, after checking in on the Great Gas Shortage of 2021, we read Kae's Theft of the Whale, a Polynesian tale where everyone just ends up having a ton of fun by the end. Everyone who doesn't die, anyway.

Suggested talking points: The Third Entity, The Genealogical Difference Between Monsters and Muppets, Living BBQ, Bestowing Stronk to Babies, Wizard RAM

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This week on WTFolklore, we conclude our reading of The Day Boy and the Night Girl  by George MacDonald, while also learning a lot about privilege, fallons ids, and the games you can play with nighttime predator beasts 

Suggested talking points: Fought, Kissed, or Ignored Each Other, Heading Mothwards, Pony Ollies, Everyone is Witch, The Death Lamp in the Sky, Playing Stink-Tag with Night Panthers

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We begin another multi-part episode this week, reading The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald, and get to relive experiencing the moon for the first time in extraordinary detail.

Suggested talking points: Folklore Island, Wolf-Shaped Cranium, Real Embassy Wives of Country, Haunted with Smiles, Deepfake Fairytales, The Majesty of Stairs

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On WTFolklore this week, we read the French tale The Satin Surgeon, and take it upon ourselves to rescue the villain from the unfortunate tropes thrust upon her. 

Suggested talking points: Adrift in the Sea of Familyless-ness,  A Quick Pants Feeling, No Maps to the Moon, Sometimes Time is Time, 3/4's Dupable

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