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What The Folklore?

A comedy podcast that exposes the absurd side of folklore. Each week we read a story, fix plotholes

Episodes

Total: 622

Don't let the title fool you, this is DEFINITELY a Christmas themed episode, and it is chock-full, j

This week we read Why the Sea is Salt, courtesy of Asbjornsen and Moe. The answer is much, much clos

This week we read The Goat of Mr. Seguin, and in the process accidently dredge up a centuries-old su

This week we continue reading Dwarf Long Nose, by Wilhelm Hauff, AKA Satan's Ghostwriter. Based on h

This week we begin reading Dwarf Long Nose, by Wilhelm Hauff, AKA Satan's Ghostwriter. In it, our pr

This week we're reading Sangkuriang or Legend of Tangkuban Perahu, a tale rife with...complicated an

This week, while reading The Tale(s) of the White Elephant with Six Tusks, we get some conflicting i

Zalutations listeners!On this week's episode of What The Folklore, we're reading Three Boys With Jug

This week on WTFolklore, we hear two different Tales of the Boo Hag, a skinless Sailor Moon who love

This week on WTFolklore, we're joined again by the magical sweet potato as we read Struwwelpeter, a

To kick off Spooklore this year, Sun Wukong has us covered by encountering a tree with the creepiest

This week on WTFolklore, we're joined by a talking sweet potato to help us read through Godmother De

Breath? You should take a deepFaith? this is quite the leapTaste? You KNOW it's bittersweetThis week

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Blue Light, a sort of remix of two other tales we've read rathe

This week on WTFolklore, we continue our trudge through Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, this time in

This week on WTFolklore, we learn possibly THE most efficient way to squander two genies, chock full

This week on WTFolklore, we read pull the ripcord on an Emergency Rutabaga Bomb, and dip back into C

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Twelve Dancing Princesses, the classic Grimm Bros. tale about a

This week on WTFolklore, we read two vastly different versions of The Legend of the Hero, Menesk, wh

This week on WTFolklore we finish reading the Hans Christian Anderson tale, The Tinder Box, which is