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Back to SearchEpisode 403: Knitting...Sinisterly
Episode 406
This week WTFolklore reads The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower, a Japanese story that demonstrates the perils of being TOO ni…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 402: My Horse is Dead and the Toilet's Clogged
Episode 405
This week we read The Flower Queen's Daughter, which transitions naturally from a PSA about egg consumption protocols to a Ye Olde retelling of Scott…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 401: THE MEGASUS
Episode 404
This week WTFolklore reads two tales of similar structure, The Apples of Pregnancy and The Three Princesses and the Unclean Spirit. Turns out when yo…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 400: WTFolklore, Now on LaserDisc!
Episode 403
We have arrived at what is definitely our 400th episode (excluding a bunch of additional recordings that simply don't count). Such a momentous occasi…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 399: Fresh Ghost Meat
Episode 402
This week we read The Plague Omen, a Polish tale that, on one hand, is about 4 years too late, but on the other, probably wouldn't have changed much …
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 398: Piss Soup is Not the Way to Repay a Favor
Episode 401
WTFolklore kicks off 2024 by reading Tsuru no Ongaeshi and several of it's variants, giving you a veritable zodiac wheel of animal wives to choose fr…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 397: Tips on How to Defeat a Child
Episode 400
Rounding out the year 2023, we read the two wintery tales, The Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds and The Yule Buck and the Girl, to jam-pack as m…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 396: Cream of Water Soup
Episode 399
This week on WTFolklore we read the Brazillian tale, Why the Sea Moans, which is obviously a well-known phenomenon and not just a made up excuse to t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 395: Hallmark Movie Event Horizon
Episode 398
This week on WTFolklore after some brief forays into the worlds of toilets and Hallmark movies, which ARE different, we read The Cat that Walked by H…
2 years, 7 months ago
Episode 394: The Constellation of Meats
Episode 397
This week on WTFolklore we read The Fairies of the Waterfall, which inadvertently helps to clue us in on the diabolical modern-day machinations of th…
2 years, 7 months ago