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Back to our regularly scheduled business this week on WTFolklore: spending the first 15-20 minutes talking about pop-culture zeitgeists instead of what we should be doing. Then we move on to ACTUALLY ...

20 Jul 202157min

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,...

13 Jul 20211h 54min

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 thi...

6 Jul 202153min

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...

15 Jun 202146min

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.Sug...

8 Jun 202133min

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 t...

1 Jun 202158min

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.Suggeste...

25 Mai 202142min

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 w...

18 Mai 202158min