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HEY! YOU! CARMAN'S DOING A KICKSTARTER ! CHECK IT OUT! This week on WTFolklore we read Herr Lazarus and the Draken, which sounds SUSPICIOUSLY familiar to another tale we read many, many years ago... Suggested talking points: Sweeping: A Thing You Don't HAVE To Do On Carpets, About 40% Cooler, Paperwork Makes Friendship Stronger, A Beef With Foxes, Fairy Shark Tank If you'd like to support Carman's...

This week on WTFolklore we read Lutung Kasarung, the tale of a woman so committed to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory that she does it like, four or five times in a row. Also, there's a very humble, magical monkey. Suggested talking points: Carpetalism, Grocery Store Final Boss, Carpet Cannon (Celebratory), Carman Stanklation, Humble Monkey Dynamite If you'd like to support Carman's artis...

This week on WTFolklore we read The Flaming Horse: The Story of a Country Where The Sun Never Shines, which is ACTUALLY the story of a man who loves two things most in life: Books and Murder. Suggested talking points: Lost the Rights to Sunshine, Regicide: Round 2, Good Ol' Fashioned Imagination Fight, Backup Plans are for Chumps, Sun Love Horse, Horse Love Sun, Murder Is Usually It's Own Reward I...

This week on WTFolklore we conclude reading Princess Nobody , Andrew Lang's fanfic about some of Richard Doyle's paintings AND A Midsummer Night's Dream,  apparently. We also stumble on the potential catalyst for all the strife between birds and fairies we've documented since the podcast began... Suggested talking points: The Tenants of Carpetpunk, Laughter FAQ, Hair Pasketti, Royally Dusted, Big...

This week on WTFolklore we begin reading Princess Nobody , Andrew Lang's fanfic about some of Richard Doyle's paintings. It also has some serious Kingdom Hearts energy. Suggested talking points: A Two-Year Degree in "Sun", Speaking of Goblin Messes…, Fairy Heist of the Century, Constant Gallivanting, Pondering Princess Strats If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www...

Wow! 365 Episodes! You've got one for every day of the year now! This week on WTFolklore we read The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese, which is frankly a reasonable position to have. Suggested talking points: This Episode Brought To You By Carpets, Non-Tenured Adjunct Professor Laminate, The Raunchiness of Cheese, You Have To Earn Pockets, Paws at the Threshold, THE CHEESE HOUSE WAS A METAPHOR If you'd...

This week on WTFolklore, after a little bit of education on the storied profession of Butling, we read The Disobedient Son, which continues OUR storied tradition of misnomers. Suggested talking points: Dr. Carpets, Practical Butling, Little Devil Dormitory, We Don't Know Anything, Nudged Toward "Acceptable" If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carman...

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Barrel Bung, A Swedish tale about jump scares and glory holes, and we peppered in a light dusting of Satanic Panic at the end, for flavor. Suggested talking points: The Timescale of Omens, Jumpscare Jenny, The One Thing a Bat Cannot Tolerate, BURN THE BUNG, Son of Pikachu, Down the Satanic Panic Hole If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit:...

This week on WTFolklore, we read Hans Christian Andersen's The Swineherd, which may or may not even feature a swine herd in it... Suggested talking points: Crime-Awareness Fighter, The Minimum Square Footage for Wedding, Free Bird! (Imperative), A Stack of Pigs to the Sky, Efficient Ways to Rot the Brain, Instinctual Curtsy If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.p...

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Legend of Leech , which is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it titular detail. Suggested talking points: Posthumous Donut Title, When Your Blood Goes Away, Woke Up Married, Coconut Lard, Turn Off the World 'til Tomorrow 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 spr...

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Two Kings' Children, Another Grimm tale. Gotta be honest, the boys REALLY phoned it in on this one. We'd have been better off if the prophecy in the beginning actually came true... Suggested talking points: Now That's What I Call Folklore!, Begging to be Final Destination'd, Stag Is Man, Man is Drag, Drag is Food, A Bobble Head to Split the Earth, Kid ROI, The...

We'll be honest, we got a little smug this week. We felt confidant in our abilities to predict where a story featuring an Animal A- Team would go. We forgot who we were dealing with... Thanks to Mars for joining us this week! You can also catch him streaming "Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms" Suggested talking points: See and Omen, Say an Omen, A Very Big Monday, Holding onto Whimsy Like a W...

Well, Here we are, right on time, in the first week of 2023. Time to rev up the ol' Folklore machine again, after it's winter slumber. For some reason, we've decided the best way to shake off the cobwebs is the read another Madame d'Aulnoy tale, Fair Goldilocks ...but we're gonna need some help. Thanks to Mars for joining us this week! You can also catch him streaming "Idle Champions of the Forgot...

Don't let the title fool you, this is DEFINITELY a Christmas themed episode, and it is chock-full, jam-packed with 3 different tales of holiday cheer, just for you dear listeners. Just don't think to hard about the mysteries of Santa Claus... Suggested talking points: Advent Calendar of Robbery, Festive From a Turkey's Point of View, Off to Kid Mountain, Toy Slough, Stew is Chew, Soup is Goop If y...

This week we read Why the Sea is Salt, courtesy of Asbjornsen and Moe. The answer is much, much closer to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" than anyone could've possibly anticipated. Suggested talking points: Cheerleader Zamboni, The Sandwich Wars Accord, Brothers on Brothers on Brothers, Bacon Hot Takes, The Piss-cific Ocean If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patre...

This week we read The Goat of Mr. Seguin , and in the process accidently dredge up a centuries-old subtweet from an extremely bitter windmill adressed to a semi-fictional character. Oh yeah, and Gordie is back. Suggested talking points: H.P. Amorcraft's "Le Cthuleaux", Not a Windmill in the Classical Sense, The Mastertruck Chronicles, Number One In Raising Children Wrong, Goat Nirvana, The Shape o...

This week we continue reading Dwarf Long Nose, by Wilhelm Hauff, AKA Satan's Ghostwriter. Based on how things went last week, if you weren't expecting a Fairytale Bake-off, a magic goose, and a war over pastries, you need to turn in your damn folktale gun and badge. Thanks to Dave for joining us this week! Suggested talking points: Atrocity Tourist, Fresh Kitchen Fishin', This Soup is a Steak,  Go...

This week we begin reading Dwarf Long Nose, by Wilhelm Hauff, AKA Satan's Ghostwriter. In it, our precious good-boy hero is rudely accosted by a strange woman with very particular herb sensibilities. War looms on the horizon... Thanks to Dave for joining us this week! Suggested talking points: A New Fun Boy, The AI Art Equivalent of a Human, Insider Cabbage Trading, Guinea Pig Whistle, A Barber's...

This week we're reading Sangkuriang or Legend of Tangkuban Perahu, a tale rife with...complicated and troubling genealogies. Thanks to Dave for joining us this week! Suggested talking points: Were-Husband, The Piss Baby's Son So Easily Forgotten, It's a Nanowrimo Miracle!, Throwing a Tantrum So Hard it Creates Geography, Narratively Necessary Incest If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endea...

This week, while reading The Tale(s) of the White Elephant with Six Tusks , we get some conflicting information on the relative coolness of this elephant. You be the judge, dear listener! Thanks to Melissa for joining us this week! Suggested talking points:  If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings If you like our show, find us online...

Zalutations listeners! On this week's episode of What The Folklore, we're reading Three Boys With Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions Marvel as we descend further into Rootabaga-Tale-Madness Before all that, though, Tyler has some spooky-times movies he wants to bring to your attention I'm truly sorry Even though it eats up the runtime, we hope you enjoy So long, and Happy Spooklore! ...Also, th...

This week on WTFolklore, we hear two different Tales of the Boo Hag, a skinless Sailor Moon who loves to drink breath and hates poker players. Man, Myth-Times had some wild explanations for sleep apnea! Thanks to Dave/Psythe for joining us this week! Suggested talking points: The Boo Spectrum, Subsistence Breath Farmers, Knitting is Sweaty Work, Flayed by Mystical Anime Light, Winner Takes Wife, L...

This week on WTFolklore, we're joined again by the magical sweet potato as we read Struwwelpeter , a confusing collection of cautionary tales about some of the worst kids you've ever heard of. Also, a rabbit gets a gun at one point, unrelatedly.  Thanks to Jayson for joining us this week! Suggested talking points: The Mythos Manspreading Hour, Shotgun Blast of Baubles, The Fingerkinder, A Colony o...

To kick off Spooklore this year, Sun Wukong has us covered by encountering a tree with the creepiest fruit we've ever heard of! Thanks to DEFINEPROG (AKA Matt) for Joining us this week! Suggested talking points: FRUIT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS, Height-to-Demon Ratio, Cup O' Immortality, Bad Cop Worse Cop, Trauma-Bonded to a Monkey If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https:/...

This week on WTFolklore, we're joined by a talking sweet potato to help us read through Godmother Death , but we do take some side roads to talk about Google's "feeling lucky" button, and how to best christen a new sketchbook. Oh, and lube. Lots and lots of lube. Thanks to Jayson for joining us this week! Suggested talking points: The Robin Hood of Antibodies, WAP (Wealth And Prosperity), Wrong As...