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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

This week on WTFolklore, we conclude our reading of The Day Boy and the Night Girl  by George MacDonald, while also learning a lot about privilege, fallons ids, and the games you can play with nightti...

4 Mai 20211h 2min

We begin another multi-part episode this week, reading The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald, and get to relive experiencing the moon for the first time in extraordinary detail.Suggested ...

27 Apr 20211h 2min

On WTFolklore this week, we read the French tale The Satin Surgeon, and take it upon ourselves to rescue the villain from the unfortunate tropes thrust upon her. Suggested talking points: Adrift in th...

20 Apr 20211h 8min