The Fairy Tellers

The episode you've all been waiting for... BEAUTY AND THE BEAST! Strap in folks. Katrina and Geoff finally retell the tale that they've been building up to since Valentine's Day. First Katrina takes t...

17 Jul 20202h 28min

Katrina and Geoff discuss mermaids! Geoff retells a Jamaican Anansi story where the mischievous trickster god ends up at the bottom of the ocean and encounters a mermaid-like being called Sea-Mahmmy. ...

3 Jul 20201h 2min

Katrina and Geoff are surprised to find a folklore connection to current events! What does a petition to rebrand Splash Mountain have to do with folklore? Katrina takes us back through the history of ...

19 Jun 20201h 18min

Katrina and Geoff discuss murderous grooms! In this episode we continue toward our eventual Beauty and the Beast episode with two more tales involving monstrous grooms (animal or otherwise). Geoff ret...

5 Jun 20201h 32min

Katrina and Geoff discuss fables! Again. On our second ever Fifth Friday Fable Fest we retell a number of Aesop's famous fables that feature gods of the Greek pantheon. In the process we discuss how t...

29 Mai 20201h 2min

Katrina and Geoff talk textiles! Following up on a listener suggestion, we delve a little deeper into seidr, a magic practice of shaping and influencing fate that is closely related to Norse mythology...

15 Mai 20201h 22min

Support the Nepal Youth Foundation by visiting www.nepalyouthfoundation.org/donate/ Katrina and Geoff discover the REAL Tiger King! Katrina retells the story of The King Who Rides a Tiger, an epic Nep...

1 Mai 20201h 4min

Support the Nepal Youth Foundation by visiting www.nepalyouthfoundation.org/donate/ Katrina and Geoff go to Nepal! In support of the Nepal Youth Foundation we spent some time getting familiar with Nep...

17 Apr 202058min