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Episode 490: A Miserable Soundscape of Love

Episode 493

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% sur…

12 hours ago

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Episode 489: The Fish are Extremely Armed

Episode 492

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 thos…

1 week ago

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Episode 488: Detective Tardigrade is on the Case!

Episode 491

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 rea…

4 weeks ago

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Episode 487: Suplex the Moon (The Story of Harap Alb, Part 3)

Episode 490

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…

1 month ago

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Episode 486: The Wrong Eyes Blinking (The Story of Harap Alb, Part 2)

Episode 489

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 re…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Episode 485: Playing Bridge with the Boys in a Bear Suit (The Story of Harap Alb, Part 1)

Episode 488

This week on WTFolklore, we do what we've always done best: complain about commercials. Then we read Chapter 1 of The Story of Harap Alb, which is it…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 484: The Wizard of Teeth (The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather Part 3)

Episode 487

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 bri…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 483: Unanimous Vote from the Bug Council (The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather Part 2)

Episode 486

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 Feath…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 482: Part 1 of Part 1 of ? (Part 1)

Episode 485

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 t…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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Episode 481: A Cow Could be a Bird

Episode 484

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, …

3 months ago

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