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This week on WTFolklore, we read The Blue Light, a sort of remix of two other tales we've read rather recently, see if you can guess which! In it, we learn of the terrifying capabilities of color-code...

6 Sep 202259min

This week on WTFolklore, we continue our trudge through Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, this time in China, which is not a sudden change of scenery at all. Turns out life is just nothing but problems,...

30 Aug 202256min

This week on WTFolklore, we learn possibly THE most efficient way to squander two genies, chock full of wish-juice, as we begin (but do not conclude) reading Aladdin and the Wonderful LampSuggested ta...

23 Aug 202257min

This week on WTFolklore, we read pull the ripcord on an Emergency Rutabaga Bomb, and dip back into Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Tales, to read through How They Broke Away to go to the Rootabaga Country. ...

9 Aug 202242min

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Twelve Dancing Princesses, the classic Grimm Bros. tale about a rat king made out of daughters who dance their lives away every night down in Space Jam World.Sugge...

2 Aug 202244min

This week on WTFolklore, we read two vastly different versions of The Legend of the Hero, Menesk, which both purport to be true accounts. Shockingly, Astoundingly, and with great effort, we DO manage ...

26 Jul 202246min

This week on WTFolklore we finish reading the Hans Christian Anderson tale, The Tinder Box, which is shockingly revealed to be a collaboration with Mary Shelley (the inventor of Mars), and a cautionar...

19 Jul 202241min

This week on WTFolklore we check in with the Hans Christian Anderson catalogue, reading The Tinder Box, which is a story that definitely, totally, 100% takes place on Mars, and you can't change our mi...

12 Jul 202243min