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This week we're reading The Fisherman, which, i'm sure you surmised, given the title of the episode. I mean, what else could an episode title like that imply?? Suggested talking points: A Definite Bea...

14 Sep 202159min

This week we're reading The Candy Cottage, which is some flagrant Fairy propaganda, if we've ever seen any (and we have)But first, did you know about the strange connection between Holes and Donnie Da...

31 Aug 20211h 6min

This week we're reading Five Times Beautiful, a Grecian variant of Snow White, with a bit of Goldilocks and Cinderella peppered in for flavor. Also, please, we're begging everyone, just leave the Sun ...

17 Aug 20211h 10min

Just read the title. Oh, and we're reading The Buried Moon (courtesy of Joseph Jacobs)Suggested talking points: Ol' Jenkins, Welcome to Show, Crapterion Collection, Moons are Haute Couture, Neptune is...

3 Aug 202152min

This week on WTFolklore, we learn why the Mullberry Worm (more commonly Silkworm) kinda sorta looks like it has an ugly horse's head if you squint at it long enough, courtesy of the Chinese tale The H...

27 Jul 202142min

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