#135 The Louse, the Flea, and the Unmoralizable Tales
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina go back to the previous episode's topic of moralizing fairy tales. If anyone can get a moral out of these tales…seek help. Our brains naturally want to make sense of...
8 Aug 1h 11min
#134 The Fisherman and The Stonecutter
Episode Description: #134 In this episode, Geoff and Katrina tackle a sticky question that comes up time and again when talking about and defining the genre of fairy tales. Are fairy tales supposed to...
25 Juli 1h 26min
#133 Tall Talk and Stormalong
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States declaring independence from Great Britain. Katrina wanted to acknowledge the occasion by indulging in the story ...
27 Juni 1h 19min
#132 The Three Journeymen
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina talk about the social historical interpretations for fairy tales. Using the essay Fairies and Hard Facts: The Reality of Folktales by Eugen Weber, we move from talki...
2 Maj 1h 20min
#131 Grand Aunt Tiger
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina dive back into Little Red Riding Hood variants in other parts of the world. ATU 123 and ATU 333 can be found in China, Korea, Japan, and the African Diaspora. But wh...
12 Apr 1h 9min
#130 Little Red Riding Hood
In this episode, Katrina and Geoff use what we've covered in episodes #126 and #128 to examine one of the most famous fairy tales of all time, Little Red Riding Hood. First, Katrina retells the tale f...
22 Mars 1h 50min
#129 The Devil, Death, and Sexton
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina talk about Northern European folk and the tales they tell. Last year, Geoff reached out to Free League Publishing to ask them about their role playing game, Vaesen a...
7 Mars 1h 13min
#128 Snow White and Rose Red
In this episode, Katrina and Geoff continue on with this year's curriculum project by talking about the psychoanalytic approach to fairy tales. We're talking Freud. We're talking Jung. We're talking B...
21 Feb 1h 18min
