Episode 438: Good Morning, It's Time For Crime
This week on WTFolklore, we read The Tale of Ming, a relic of significant cultural importance to China. We have perhaps...different takeaways than the original author intended.Suggested talking points...
28 Jan 202549min
Episode 437: Chili-Dog Delivered Via Gun
This week on WTFolklore, we read The Snow Daughter and the Fire Son, AKA the story of the first two X-Men, Heatmiser and Snowmiser, a tale that begins, middles, and ends in tragedy for inexplicable re...
22 Jan 202548min
Episode 436: Bedtime Stories For Sleep Paralysis Demons
This week on WTFolklore, to make up for missing you on Christmas Eve, and to kick off 2025 in style, we're in for a "Rootabaganing". In layman's terms, that means we're reading both How Five Rusty Rat...
7 Jan 202553min
Episode 435: Graffiti Kills Wizards and Saves Lives
This week on WTFolklore we read The Stones of Plouhinec, a "seasonal" story from "France" (but not THAT France...)Suggested talking points: We're Not Going to MegaFrance, Put Fear Into the Egg, Tangen...
17 Dec 20241h
Episode 434: Men Are Like Failed Potatoes
This week on WTFolklore we read the Irish tale How The Wise Women Got Their Farm of Land Rent-Free from Lord Kilmaine, a title whose brevity matches the alleged wit of it's main characters.Suggested t...
10 Dec 202446min
Episode 433: Ancient Chinese Among Us
Here we go again...
3 Dec 202453min
Episode 432: THAT DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION AT ALL (What the Rose Did to the Cypress, Part III)
This week we conclude the twisting, turning road that is What the Rose Did to the Cypress, with and even the story is sick of itself by the end.Suggested talking points: No Secrets When There's Breads...
26 Nov 202442min
Episode 431: Livin' on Deer Time (What the Rose Did to the Cypress, Part II)
This week we continue our puzzling journey into What the Rose Did to the Cypress, but we take a bit of a detour away from riddle-solving in order to gather snacks, learn nothing, and kill hundreds of ...
19 Nov 202443min
