Hosted by What the Folklore · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 600 episodes
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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.
What the Folklore hosts What The Folklore?, a comedy show with 600 episodes published.
Have you seen the movie "Her"? No? Go check out the trailer...okay, got it? Now you basically understand this week's story, The Wonderful Stone . Except instead of Scarlet Johansson's disembodied voice, just picture a co
This week we read The Tale of Katcha and the Devil: The Story of a Clinging Vine , which is a story we can all agree we've never read before. 100% sure about that, as are you. Right?? Suggested talking points: A Husk of
Enticed by Carman's cryptic clue of "Grandpa, Man-eating, Egg", we dive headfirst this week into The Legend of Aji Saka. It for sure has each of those things in it. Suggested talking points: Big Water vs. Big Queso, Thic
After reading a much-too-long epic (that really could've been boiled down to a single episode), we decided we needed a palette cleanser. For some reason, we also decided that palette cleanser would be Hans Christian Ande
This week on WTFolklore, we finally conclude the epic known as The Story of Harap Alb, with perhaps the most pitiful, confusing "Animal A-Team" we've yet encountered on the podcast. Suggested talking points: Emoji Hierog
This week on WTFolklore, cooler heads prevail, and instead of alternating back and forth between epics, we pick up where we left off last time and read Chapters 2 and 3 of T he Story of Harap Alb, titled Under the Power
This week on WTFolklore, we do what we've always done best: complain about commercials. Then we read Chapter 1 of T he Story of Harap Alb, which is itself titled The Ember-Eating Flying Horse Suggested talking points: Pu
Even though it says "Part 3" in the title, we close out Part 2 of The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather this week, thus bringing an end to our tale of a guy so dumb and annoying he caused the ver
This week, we conclude at least Part 1 of The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather, having learned nothing about said Red Feather, but a surprising amount about bugs, their legs, and the lexicon of
This week on WTFolklore, we begin an unexpectedly long journey into The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather, a Zuñi Folktale that we've barely scratched the surface on, if the episode title serves
We're back to regularly scheduled antics after surviving d'Aulnoy again, this time to read The Dun Cow , a story that would've fazed us a decade ago, but to which we now find ourselves unfortunately inured. Suggested tal
We conclude our Journey through The Benevolent Frog , and come to the unanimous consensus: to improve the story, the frog must go. Thank you once more to Dani for joining us on this particular ride! And if you're interes
We continue our Journey through The Benevolent Frog , and, unfortunately, this section DOES include a frog. Its benevolence, however, is up for debate. Thank you to Dani for joining us on this particular ride! Suggested
The time has come, once more. The clock has rolled over again, another year has passed, and to usher us into Year 11 of WTFolklore is none other than our dear, dear friend, Madame d'Aulnoy. Thank you to Dani for joining
This week, after celebrating our own brand of "Big Game", we dive into one of the Four Great Folktales of China, The Butterfly Lovers Suggested talking points: The Super Toilet Bowl, Secret Treaty (to Defeat Gordie), All
A slightly-less-but-still-bite-sized episode of WTFolklore as the Whimbus continues to throw its tantrums on us. This time we crack open a tome that threatens to remain with us for some time to come, The Cats' Arabian Ni
It's a bite-sized episode this week on WTFolklore as we race against the sky to complete a recording. Not all of us made it... we read Shippeitaro, a tale from Japan. Suggested talking points: Nary a Goof, Boat% Speedrun
This week on WTFolklore we read The Bad Mother, a Romani tale so chock-a-block full of chaotic magic, it may well be our Primordial Fairy Tale. Suggested talking points: The Price is Wrong, Speaking of Brain Diseases, Go
We return in 2026, kicking things off with two short tales, one from Hans Christian Andersen, the other a Grimm, with the sliveriest of slivers for connective tissue to one another: traveling occurs in both. Suggested ta
We cut it VERY CLOSE this year, but it wouldn't be a year of What The Folklore without us dipping in to another chapter of The Journey West. Thanks to Dave, Jayson, Matt and Melissa for all joining in on this one, and Th
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