What The Folklore?

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

Episodes

Total: 602

We tackle another Chromatic Dwarf story this week, The Little Gray Man, from Andrew Lang's Fairy Boo

This week we cover the tale of Dapplegrim, the only named character in his story. And rightly so, as

After her daring escape from what is almost certainly a fae-managed Kroger, Carman regales us with t

This week we, and by extension you, are treated to The Epic Farts of General Pumpkin. I dunno what e

We return to the welcoming, warm blanket of Fairytalez With a Z Dot Com to read about The Half-Chick

Strangeknife Diaries 2

2024/5/14

Well, this seems familiar...

This week on WTFolklore, we turn our attention to The Toad Woman, a Native American tale of unrecord

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Goose Girl at the Well, A Grimm Brothers' tale that has absolut

Strangeknife Diaries

2024/4/9

Looks like them anime boys are at it again!

This week on WTFolklore, we read Nani Daughter of Nani, A Palestinian story who's title omits a FASC

This week we read The Enchanted Ring. No, not that one, the other one, from Russia. This obviously m

This week we read The Tiger King's Gift. No, not that one, the other one, from India. We actually me

This week we read The Bird Catcher, from Serbia. It features either the very best or the very worst

This week we read The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, another banger from Hans Christian Andersen

This week WTFolklore reads The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower, a Japanese  s

This week we read The Flower Queen's Daughter, which transitions naturally from a PSA about egg cons

Episode 401: THE MEGASUS

2024/2/6

This week WTFolklore reads two tales of similar structure, The Apples of Pregnancy and The Three Pri

We have arrived at what is definitely our 400th episode (excluding a bunch of additional recordings

This week we read The Plague Omen, a Polish tale that, on one hand, is about 4 years too late, but o

WTFolklore kicks off 2024 by reading Tsuru no Ongaeshi and several of it's variants, giving you a ve