What The Folklore?

What The Folklore?

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  • Who Says Solutions Can't Cause More Problems?

    This week on What the Folklore, we're reading Ligur the Water Giant, an obscure German-language tale with a wizard that rivals even the mighty Gaznak!

    Suggested talking points: A Bowl of Loose Toppings, We've Done a LOT to Vampires, Queen Oprah, Briefly At War with Whales (and Wales), A True Graduate of Princess Academy, Eagle-Surfing, WTFolklore DLC


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr 4 min
  • 454: Unstoppable Business Glacier of Success

    This week on WTFolklore, we head back to our old stomping ground of France for Blanche and Vermeille. You can tell it's a riveting tale, because we spend a good chunk of the episode discussing things you could wear instead of pants.

    Suggested talking points: Sneaking Agenda Into the Prose, 2,370,563 Ziplines to France, Hot Egg, A True Thing About Pants, Deep in the Pleats, Pants That Need Feeding, The Peasant Ick, Not a Happy Face in Rich-People-Land


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    45 min
  • Episode 453: Hell Dad is Real Sad

    I'll be honest, it's a doozy of a story this week. We are subjected to the whimsical mind of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, AKA Lord Dunsany, who delivers us to The Fortress Unvanquishable Save for Sacnoth, AKA The Fortress of Doom. Get your High-Fantasy britches on for this one, folks.

    Suggested talking points: Lying Will Save Your Life, 2999 Whoopsie Boys, Ghost-Wizard-Punzel, We're Good at Letters, Customary Butter Bath, Bereft of Elephant, Wolves in the Wainscot


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr 29 min
  • Episode 452: Goose at Heart

    It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, again! Again! This time, at least, there's some connective thematic tissue. 
    First up is A Man That Was Married to a Goose, followed up by Uinigumasuittuq and the Origin of Living Beings
     

    Suggested talking points: Google-Fingers Activated, Diabolical (Citation Needed), Nary a Grass in Sight, Roolette: The Dating App That Deletes Itself, There's a Wife in the Wife-Hole, Cyrano de Bergerac Sans Rizz, Consensual Meat-Fetching, Date Night with Dog-Husband


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 451: The Department of Vibes

    It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, again!
    First up is The Snake Who Became the King's Son-in-Law, followed up by God's Godson
     

    Suggested talking points: Get Out Your Smile Calipers, The Foley Files, Idioms Better Watch Out, The Wheel of Cake, My Guns are My Sword, Buff Baby Battle


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    59 min
  • Episode 450: I Don't Even Like Murder

    It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, as we read both The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Crystal Apple and The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Trasnparent Apple. But not before we spend much too much time discussing World Milk Day, which is apparently a thing.

    Suggested talking points: #MotherEarthUdders, The Raddest Vitamin on the Internet, A Whoopso Thematic-ish Good Job, Third Listener Confirmed, You Receive Bread, I Receive Hex, An Apple TV Ad Disguised as a Folktale


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    55 min
  • Episode 449: A Wish Too Dumb for the Monkey's Paw

    This week on WTFolklore, we read The Story of the Black Cow, and as with most things, we try to contort it into a Willy Wonka-esque shape.

    Suggested talking points: Zipline Magnate, The Ratio of Ghosts to Guys, Legally a Cake, The 352-Day Calendar, Milk From the Heart, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Premium+, Somewhere In the Churro Family


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 448: All Bangers LLC

    This week on WTFolklore, we read The Legend of Coatlicue & Coyolxauhqui, which are two Aztec names we can absolutely pronounce without mangling them! We learn a lot about the Moon, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and a surprising revelation about Dr. Seuss. Thanks, Mesoamerica!

    Suggested talking points: A Whisper of Citrus, The Crime of Sustenance, Zero to Pissed Off, 401 Cooks in the Kitchen, The Universal Color for Punch, The Concentrated Power of a Colony of Whos, Daedric Suess, The Cat in the Cravat


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    54 min
  • Episode 447: Interrupting the Raven Orgy

    Well, hey there, stranger! Been a minute, hasn't it? We're back, and already up to our old antics again as we read The Three Citrons: The Story of Prince That Climbed a Glass Hill, as you may be able to surmise from this week's episode title. 

    Suggested talking points: A Court-Mandated Month of Minutes, The Chosen Treeman, An Expensive Way To Feel Bad About Yourself, Not Invited to the Wedding (Or the War), The Summer Punzel Catalogue, Two Kings With One Big Big Rock


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Final Folktale 06

    Alright, gang. It's time to finally talk fantasy again, with the tragic tale of Clive Rosefield, and...oh, hold up. Did I miss a digit in the title?

    1 hr 15 min

About What The Folklore?

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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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