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What The Folklore?
What the Folklore
600 episodes
23 hours ago
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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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.
Show more...
Comedy
Arts,
TV & Film,
Books
Episodes (20/600)
What The Folklore?
Episode 467: Two Birds, One Stone, and Also One is a Cat
It's back to business-as-usual this week on WTFolklore as we re-calibrate our fairy tale senses with some good ol' fashion eastern european fare, "The Glass Mountain", which stars a guy dressed as Hugh Jackman, who is dressed as Jack Black, who is dressed as a school boy.
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23 hours ago
1 hour 27 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 466: Thanks for the Sandwiches, My Whole Family Died
DISCLAIMER: Gordie lost about half of his audio recording this week, so we had to improvise. See if you can guess the parts that got re-recorded! Spooklore 2025 draws to a close this week, and we have another WTFolklore-exclusive, custom made Cryptid tale for you! Join us as we venture to the most terrifying location in North America...New Jersey...
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1 week ago
51 minutes 16 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 465: Bed Bath & Unnamed Dread
Spooklore 2025 continues this week, with a bit of a twist. Rather than continually avoiding every instance of a "This is a THING, and here are it's SCARY FEATURES" type stories, Carman has elected to assemble her own folktale about one such THING, "The Santa Compaña". So enjoy this custom-made spooky story!
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2 weeks ago
50 minutes 13 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 464: The Joann Fabrics Power Vacuum
Spooklore begins in earnest this week, as we read what may well be the earliest-recorded Found Footage ghost story, "The Haunting of Athenodorus", or as we elected to call it, "Ghost Hunters: Ancient Athens Edition".
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3 weeks ago
57 minutes 49 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 463: The Legend of Pork City
On what is TECHNICALLY the first Spooklore installment of the year...we got a little distracted. Thankfully, our spooky instincts kicked in and we accidentally turn "The Vision of Mac Conglinne" into a ghost story anyway.
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4 weeks ago
1 hour 14 minutes 13 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 462: Give us Uppies, or Give us Death!
This week we return to our good friend Carl Sandburg for a Rootabega-adjacent story, "The Haystack Cricket, and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns". If you like random sounds strung together with no evident rhyme or reason, buddy look no further than a Carl Sandburg story...
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1 month ago
49 minutes 15 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 461: So Now You're a 12-Headed Dragon: A User's Guide (with T. Kingfisher)
We are joined this week by very special guest T. Kingfisher! We had to call in back-up to wade our way through "Princess Miranda and Prince Hero", a Polish tale featuring everyone's favorite creep, Koschei the Deathless. It also features a hero (named Hero) who makes some staggeringly questionable inventory-management choices on his quest.
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1 month ago
1 hour 44 minutes 56 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 460: David Blaine Eats 40 Cows
After talking about some crucial current events (read: Stuart Little Lore), we dive into "The Little Purse with Two Half-Pennies", a Romanian tale with some stunning revelations about Project Birdfall's humble beginnings.
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1 month ago
1 hour 2 minutes 23 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 459: Freaky Friday'd with a Corpse
This week on What the Folklore, we read FOUR different explanations for where the heck all these god-dang mosquitos came from. As is our want, we take a more...buffet approach to the answer.
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2 months ago
53 minutes 39 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 458: All Cherry Men are Weird Guys, But Not Every Weird Guy is a Cherry Man
This week on What the Folklore, we read two different stories, "The Eye Juggler" and "Gobbleknoll", which inadvertently creates our most Body Horror-oreinted episode yet! It's Spooklore Summer, baby!
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2 months ago
46 minutes 34 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 457: I’m Not Constipated, I’m WISHING
This week on What the Folklore, we read "The Nodding Tiger", a Chinese story that introduces us to the humble beginnings of a beloved friend.
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3 months ago
53 minutes 52 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 456: Skateboarded Too Close to the Sun
This week on What the Folklore, we read the Spanish tale "The Bird of Truth", which has some serious texture pop-in issues. Either that, or the protagonist is legally blind and shy about it.
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3 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 6 seconds

What The Folklore?
Who Says Solutions Can't Cause More Problems?
This week on What the Folklore, we're reading "Ligur the Water Giant", an obscure German-language tale with a wizard that rivals even the mighty Gaznak!
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3 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes 40 seconds

What The Folklore?
454: Unstoppable Business Glacier of Success
This week on WTFolklore, we head back to our old stomping ground of France for "Blanche and Vermeille". You can tell it's a riveting tale, because we spend a good chunk of the episode discussing things you could wear instead of pants.
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4 months ago
44 minutes 13 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 453: Hell Dad is Real Sad
I'll be honest, it's a doozy of a story this week. We are subjected to the whimsical mind of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, AKA Lord Dunsany, who delivers us to "The Fortress Unvanquishable Save for Sacnoth, AKA The Fortress of Doom". Get your High-Fantasy britches on for this one, folks.
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4 months ago
1 hour 28 minutes 28 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 452: Goose at Heart
It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, again! Again! This time, at least, there's some connective thematic tissue. "First up is A Man That Was Married to a Goose", followed up by "Uinigumasuittuq and the Origin of Living Beings"
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4 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 55 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 451: The Department of Vibes
It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, again! First up is "The Snake Who Became the King's Son-in-Law", followed up by "God's Godson"
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4 months ago
58 minutes 55 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 450: I Don't Even Like Murder
It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, as we read both "The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Crystal Apple" and "The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Trasnparent Apple". But not before we spend much too much time discussing World Milk Day, which is apparently a thing.
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5 months ago
54 minutes 35 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 449: A Wish Too Dumb for the Monkey's Paw
This week on WTFolklore, we read "The Story of the Black Cow", and as with most things, we try to contort it into a Willy Wonka-esque shape.
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5 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 38 seconds

What The Folklore?
Episode 448: All Bangers LLC
This week on WTFolklore, we read "The Legend of Coatlicue & Coyolxauhqui", which are two Aztec names we can absolutely pronounce without mangling them! We learn a lot about the Moon, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and a surprising revelation about Dr. Seuss. Thanks, Mesoamerica!
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5 months ago
53 minutes 45 seconds

What The Folklore?
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.