What The Folklore?

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 If you'd like to supp...

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 If you'd like to support Carman's artistic e...

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 If you'd like to support Carman's a...

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 If you'd like to suppo...

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 Panther...

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 If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavo...

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

This Week on WTFolklore, We have a (kinda) double feature, briefly reading A Riddling Tale , followed up by  The Grimm Brothers' Snow White and Rose Red , a somewhat plodding story we give a much-needed face lift to Suggested talking points: Animals Doing Things, Dry as a Wife Should Be, Kids Who Look Like Trees, Bear Scout Cookies, Beauty and the Beast Synldrome If you'd like to support Carman's...

On WTFolklore this week, we read The Battle of the Birds , a title that promises us juicy lore, and instead delivers a mishmash of plot points we're all too familiar with already. Suggested talking points: A Singular Dook, Married to Science, The Whole "Bone Ladder" Business, Ears of Holding, The Key to the Moon If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/c...

This week on WTFolklore, we read "The Raspberry Worm", and encounter a whole new breed of fruit authority. We do get bored and start talking about chicken sandwiches, but you really should've seen that coming by now. Suggested talking points: an NFT on Hopes and Dreams, Worm Census of Finland, Kid Cocaine, The Lesserberries, Richard Horrifying If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors,...

On this episode of What the Folklore, after the traditional Kingdom Hearts Cold Open, we read King Bean, a story of dubious Italian royalty, but that is mostly meant to scare witches. Suggested talking points: Southern-Fried Backhanded Niceness,  Noble Bean, The Fetish Checklist, Ableist Witch Bookclub, Expressing Hatitude  If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.p...

This week on What the Folklore? we conclude The Fairy of Dawn , and shocking no one, find ourselves much more enamored by the cadre of horses than literally any other character. Oh, and a new cult dropped. Suggested talking points: The Justice Binary, The Goddess of Wednesday,  Land Sirens, How Windy Are These Dogs?, When the Dayball Sleeps, Yelling at the Lying Box If you'd like to support Carman...

This week, the three intrepid heroes of What The Folklore achieve their destiny, which for some reason was to hear the Romanian tale The Fairy of Dawn . Beggars can't be choosers, I suppose. Suggested talking points: Live Weather Requests, A One Alarm Lifestyle, Dragon Fingers, Quantifiable Horse Beauty, The Bottom of God's Lego Box, There's a Horse in You All! If you'd like to support Carman's ar...

This week on What the Folklore, we head on over to Lapland to hear the story of The Elf Maiden , which is not so much a story as it is a series of refusals to the call of adventure. It really makes you think about society, don't it? Suggested talking points: The Arkansas Community College Fightin' Balanced Breakfasts, Cinnamon Toast Slurp, Grand Theft Barno, Punch Tree Make Pants, Beef From Anothe...

This week on Wtfolklore, we take another trip to Japan to hear about The Girl with the Wooden Helmet . There's also a very loud, pesky cat that keeps interrupting the audio, it's so weird. Anyway, hope you enjoy Suggested talking points: For the Love of the Crime, Glue Helmet vs. Pig Helmet, Wet Ass Sea Shanties, Pull the Sick out of my Wife, The Annual Buckethead Google, A Loosey-Goosey Approach...

The time  has come for the thrilling conclusion to d'Aulnoy's epic tale The Blue Bird . Will something inanimate come to life? Will there be a volcano? You may be surprised, dear listeners. Suggested talking points: We're Not Done with Ooze Yet, Reinstate the Bird, A Jim Butcher Novel Waiting to Happen, It's Egg Time. If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon...

This Week on WTFolklre, we continue to read The Blue Bird by Madame d'Aulnoy, where things take a turn for the even goopier and oozier, and now demons may be involved? It's hard to say. Oh, remember that wizard? He's back. Suggested talking points: These Frogs are Too Powerful, A Timeshare on Daughters, Oozy Sleep, Daytime Crying, The Air Freshener of Traitors, Round 9 of King Hunt If you'd like t...

This Week on WTFolklre, we once again subject ourselves, and you our dear listeners, to a tale from one Madame d'Aulnoy, titled The Blue Bird . If you think we finish the story in this one sitting, buddy you must be new around here. Suggested talking points: Airport for Meanies, Directly from Brain to Wall, Myth Times Twitter, The Oozy one and the Eighth Wonder, Optimus Bunny, The Sloppiest Dragon...

This Week on WTFolklre, we read The One About Coyote Going West , a Cherokeean tale about the time two lesbian coyotes dressed as Santa save Christmas with Raven Symoné by farting on Cherry Man atop a pile of toaster ovens...no really. For reals! Suggested talking points: Concurrent Reincarnation, Baby Dumdum Stories, Nothing Begets Ducks Begets People, Frozen III: Ovens, Elsa Butt Lesbian Santa C...

This week the WTFolklore Gang reads The Ass, The Table, and The Stick from merry ol' England, as was requested by @kerfuffle on our Discord server, who's fault this all is. Over the course of the journey, we learn the true meaning of wealth, and meet the Demigod of Slapstick Suggested talking points: A Country of Go-Getters and Morons, Stick Rich, Donkey Bank, A Dumb Ride on Gravity, A Weird One-S...

On a very scientific WTFolklore, we learn the origin point  of platypuses, courtesy of the Australian tale, How Platypuses Came to Australia . We also learn a surprising amount about ladders and the various despotic figures of the animal kingdom. Suggested talking points: A Lit House, If Ears Could See, Ladder Detour, Turkey Brothel, Keeping a Duck Wife, Duck Hitler v. Turtle Hitler, Oversold the...

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Wise Dog , a story from the Yoruba Tribe of Africa. Have you ever wondered why there  is so much trouble and strife in your life? Apparently Africa thinks it's your mom's fault, and they have some compelling evidence to back up the claim. Suggested talking points: "Smartest Book Ever" by E.R. Udite, Brevity is the Soul of Smart, Jane Whimbus, Jefferson Choo Cho...

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Cricket , a story from China that introduces us to the exciting new world of championship cricket fighting, a sport so beloved that it devolved into a full-on police state! Suggested talking points: The Cat is About the Bug, A True Beef Honk, The Annual Cricket Reckoning, Wet Ass Grandma, The Clicks and Clacks of Battle If you'd like to support Carman's artisti...

In this return to the Ramble format, we get back to basics as we really appreciate the craft of crime, measure our heights against various dictatorial figures, and take a more carceral approach to child rearing 

This week on WTFolklore, to celebrate the fresh, cerulean sheen cast over the state of Georgia, we've got three bite-sized tales from GA: Wooden Nutmegs, The Cross-Eyed Mule, and A Rough Night on the Farm . They explain...a lot. Suggested talking points: Dogs as Doctors, Non-Euclidean Parking Lot, Blue State Comedy Tour, Typewriter Monkey Vacation, Donkey Pop, The Throat Dimension If you'd like to...