600 episodes
What The Folklore? What the Folklore
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4.6 • 17 Ratings
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A comedy podcast that exposes the absurd side of folklore. Each week we read a story, fix plotholes and create new ones, and invent unintended connections between tales.
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Episode 408: A Mysterious Fellow with a Slight Cherry Scent
This week on WTFolklore, we read "Nani Daughter of Nani", A Palestinian story who's title omits a FASCINATING detail about said character. You'll have to listen in to find out for yourself.
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Episode 407: The Think-About-What-You've-Dungeon
This week we read "The Enchanted Ring". No, not that one, the other one, from Russia. This obviously means we had to infuse it with some timely, seasonal holiday flair of our own.
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Episode 406: Middle-Manager-Slash-King Tiger
This week we read "The Tiger King's Gift". No, not that one, the other one, from India. We actually meet a trinity of animal kings, so we encourage you to tag yourself among them.
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Episode 405: A Blackbelt in Royalty
This week we read The Bird Catcher, from Serbia. It features either the very best or the very worst agent of Project Birdfall. We'll let you decide which.
CONTENT WARNING: Infrequent, but repeated mentions of domestic violence. -
Episode 404: Waiting Room Simulator 2024
This week we read "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep", another banger from Hans Christian Andersen. It doesn't do much to disrupt it's own status quo by the end, but boy are there some twists along the way.
Customer Reviews
Love it
Hilarious. Love the music. Interesting and fun. Inspired me to dive back into mythology. Highly recommend!
This is all I listen to now
This is seriously one of the funniest podcasts I've ever listened to and I don't know how it took me this long to hear about it?? I've been binging it since I heard the first episode. If you're wondering if it's worth listening to, yes. Please. Just do it, even if you don't care about folklore at all. It's rad af.
I Love Them So Much That I Give Them Money
This podcast is a such a delightfully funny, silly and educational(?) show that I ended up becoming a patron on Patreon. I'm always surprised at the frankly bizarre tracks their minds end up going down (which mirror the equally bizarre tales quite well), and the frequent tangents that interrupt the story are just so much fun. I read a lot of folklore/fairy tales (as well as analysis of them) in my free time, so it's extra amusing to hear people reacting to these stories as if they were modern books/movies/etc.