
#119 Tales of the French Salon
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina delve into the world of King Louis XIV's French Salons. During this time period, many women of the nobility were meeting together in the salons and stretching their ...
19 Juli 20252h 1min

#118 Clever Gretel
In this episode, Geoff shares that his son is currently having him read through ALL of the Grimm Brother's collection of tales. And while on this journey, his son has really gotten a kick out of some ...
5 Juli 20251h 3min

#117 Mermaid Tails (Or Not)
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina fight to break their Mer-MAY curse by attempting to get an episode all about the most famous seductresses (or kidnappers) of the sea (or lakes). These little (or big...
31 Maj 20251h 37min

#116 Ethiopian Sons: An Evaluation of Values
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina turn to a pair of tales from Ethiopia that illustrate how stories can talk about what we value without being overly didactic. They retell two stories stories come ...
3 Maj 202549min

#115 All's Well That Ends Well For Catherine the Wise
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina celebrate Shakespeare Day on April 23rd! Shakespeare employed folklore in his tales to connect his audience with the familiar while also reworking it enough to pull ...
19 Apr 20252h

#114 The Golden Trunk
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina dive back into The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile. Is it violent? And misogynistic? And unnecessarily sexual? Yes. But it's also racist. Katrina was sent a cop...
5 Apr 20251h 19min

#113 Speranza Wilde and the Evil Eye
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina talk about some of the work of Lady Jane "Speranza" Wilde. An Irish nationalist who was gathering the lore of the folk, Lady Jane Wilde believed that the heart of th...
22 Mars 20251h 23min

#112 Wise Men of Gotham and the City of Chelm
In this episode, Geoff and Katrina take a trip to several different cities of fools (and feel right at home). First Katrina explains how the folkloric village of Gotham ended up turning into a city of...
8 Mars 20251h 27min


















