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What The Folklore?

What the Folklore

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.

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01:29:44

Episode 445: Probably Fairies Did It (The Princess...

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2025/03/18

This week we finally claw our way to the end of The Princess Mayblossom, and learn much more about Lucky Charms lore than anyone could've anticipated.Suggested talking points: I No Longer Side With The Children, Lucky Charms Creation Myth, Figuring Things Out is for Peasants, Cue Tears (Again), A Life On Emotional Cocaine, Live by the Well Die by the WellIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help

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01:02:15

Episode 444: Classic Girl-Smells-Boy Story (The...

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2025/03/11

This week we conclude our reading of The Princess Mayblossom! W..wait? We don't? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE DON'T??Suggested talking points: You WILL Learn the Pain of Existence, The Copypastas of Yore, An 8-Madrid Woman At Most, 3 Hours Of Silence Well Spent, Royalty Playpen Simulator, Chapeau 2.0, Land-Pirates Never Took OffIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on

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01:28:53

Episode 443: Breaking Punzel Protocol (The Princess...

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2025/03/04

We resume our reading of The Princess Mayblossom this week, down one man from the last. d'Aulnoy just takes and takes and takes from us, doesn't she?Suggested talking points: Big Merlin and Lil' Merlin, Indoor Daughter and Outdoor Daughter, Lions: Are They Real?, The Weeping Five, Comfort Diamonds, Loin-Hunger Vs. Regular-Hunger, Elephantvator, I Punzled My Own BrainIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us

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01:34:22

442: Dungeons and d'Aulnoys (The Princess Mayblossom,...

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2025/02/25

Ten Years.Ten Years of doing this, and d'Aulnoy is STILL punking us...Suggested talking points: Entering The Eraser-Free Zone, NURSE TOURNAMENT!, This Didn't Take Long To Get Weird, All The King's Leeches, Constantly Leaking Chastity, The Biggest Punzel Money Can Buy, If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to

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00:53:58

Episode 441: Get Out Of Here, Wife, It's Karate Time!

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2025/02/18

This week on WTFolklore we read two versions of The Wedding of Mrs. Fox, one of which was considered a favorite by Jacob Grimm. One features dick jokes, the other does not. Guess which one was his favorite.Suggested talking points: LEGO Comes For Us All, That's A Lot of Bepis, Is A House a Chef (When It's On Fire)?, An Easy Giggle, A Mickey Mouse Kink, Chucking the Corpse BouquetIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our

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00:57:07

Episode 440: Abs Shaped Like a QR Code

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2025/02/11

This week on WTFolklore we read the Ukrainian tale, Oh: The Tsar of the Forest, and are legitimately shocked at how resilient it's canon proves to be, despite our best efforts to deviate from it.Suggested talking points: The Foretold Hose-Pipe, An Eternal Greasy Handprint, The World is Buffering, A Modern O, Babies Made of Things Babies Aren't Made Of, Moisturized (With Beer), Airtight CanonIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you

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00:51:56

Episode 439: The Episode With Ten Minutes of...

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2025/02/04

EDITORS NOTE: THERE IS A 10 MINUTE STRETCH OF INTENTIONALLY UNEDITED SILENCE FROM 9:09-19:09This week on WTFolklore, after a very good joke that is worth everyone's valuable time, we read The Immortal Rooster, which is actually, secretly, a much funnier ending to The Hobbit.Suggested talking points: Art World Tea, Reverse-Vampire Rooster, How is the Nut Trading?, The First Live Tweet, Ratatouille'd From the Inside, The Unshiniest Place on Earth, Five Armies Vs. ChickenIf you'd like to support

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00:49:31

Episode 438: Good Morning, It's Time For Crime

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2025/01/28

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Tale of Ming, a relic of significant cultural importance to China. We have perhaps...different takeaways than the original author intended.Suggested talking points: The Year is 2136, Cursed with Good Luck, Baby-Play Polycule, All These Flesh Boys With Their Flesh Births, This Is Our Bulbasaur, Crab Shrimp Nervous System VoltronIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us

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00:48:05

Episode 437: Chili-Dog Delivered Via Gun

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2025/01/22

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Snow Daughter and the Fire Son, AKA the story of the first two X-Men, Heatmiser and Snowmiser, a tale that begins, middles, and ends in tragedy for inexplicable reasons.Suggested talking points: Motorcycles Everywhere, The Integrity of the Dog, Distant, Diegetic Battle Music, Of Mice and Mons, But Like Where's Magneto?If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help

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00:53:58

Episode 436: Bedtime Stories For Sleep Paralysis Demons

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2025/01/07

This week on WTFolklore, to make up for missing you on Christmas Eve, and to kick off 2025 in style, we're in for a "Rootabaganing". In layman's terms, that means we're reading both How Five Rusty Rats Helped Find a New Village and The Potato-Faced Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on his Gold Accordion, two stories from the...unique mind of Carl Sandburg.Suggested talking points: The Only Place We're Going Is The Ground, The Audiobook Version of Vegetables, The Coward's Metaphor, Existentialism

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01:00:36

Episode 435: Graffiti Kills Wizards and Saves Lives

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2024/12/17

This week on WTFolklore we read The Stones of Plouhinec, a "seasonal" story from "France" (but not THAT France...)Suggested talking points: We're Not Going to MegaFrance, Put Fear Into the Egg, Tangentially Seasonal, Bee Soup, Faith-Based Graffiti, Eavesdropping on Magic, Innocent Until Proven WizardIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and

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00:46:18

Episode 434: Men Are Like Failed Potatoes

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2024/12/10

This week on WTFolklore we read the Irish tale How The Wise Women Got Their Farm of Land Rent-Free from Lord Kilmaine, a title whose brevity matches the alleged wit of it's main characters.Suggested talking points: You Got Trucker In Your Soul, A Pilgrim-Themed Corner, Women Who Want Money for Sandwiches, Potato Drunk, Joggromancy, Winking Women of InfluenceIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us online to

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00:53:46

Episode 433: Ancient Chinese Among Us

What The Folklore? ·

2024/12/03

Here we go again...

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00:42:28

Episode 432: THAT DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION AT ALL...

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2024/11/26

This week we conclude the twisting, turning road that is What the Rose Did to the Cypress, with and even the story is sick of itself by the end.Suggested talking points: No Secrets When There's Breadsticks on the Line, Final Butt Diamond, Taking Baths With Strange Deer, Marriage In Exchange For Advice, Run-Of-The-Mill Sludge Prince, Miscellaneous Man Meat...Again, This Is Why We Hate RiddlesIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you

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00:43:50

Episode 431: Livin' on Deer Time (What the Rose Did...

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2024/11/19

This week we continue our puzzling journey into What the Rose Did to the Cypress, but we take a bit of a detour away from riddle-solving in order to gather snacks, learn nothing, and kill hundreds of thousands of men.Suggested talking points: A Human Hand Clap, Backseat Riddlers, Men of a Indeterminate Age, An Alternate Pant-Leg of Time, This is Dark Souls Now, An Honorary BirdIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show,

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00:44:30

Episode 430: The Proper Channels (Which is Warfare)...

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2024/11/12

This week we begin our journey into What the Rose Did to the Cypress, a story featuring a riddle so enticing, even knowing it exists drives men to their (countless) deaths.Suggested talking points: Magnet Highway, The Folklore Ice Bucket Challenge, Horticultural Beef, The Sordid Inner-Lives of Garden Folk, I'm Tired of Hunting this Town, Ctrl+F "Face", Ready to be PikedIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you like our show, find us

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00:57:32

Episode 429: RateMyBaby.com

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2024/10/29

Spooklore 2024 draws to a close with a reading of The Story of a Mother, which is not so much a spooky story but a terribly depressing one, from resident sad-sack, Hans Christian Andersen. Turns out, the true horror was videogames from 1993 this whole time!Suggested talking points: The Hamburglar's Living Conditions, A Cave with Amenities, Microwave Beer, Death and Baby, Jealous of the Ocean, Follicle by Follicle, A Little Pee (As a Treat)If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit:

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00:37:00

Episode 428: Please Bloodborne My Daughter

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2024/10/15

Spooklore 2024 continues with a reading of The Legend of the Pineapple, a story that either pushes fruit to new spooky echelons, or is a big coincidence. It's impossible to tell which.Suggested talking points: Spooky By Implication, Painfully Competent, Cooking is a Myth, Waiting to Magically Become Not Terrible, Porridge Was an Ask Too Far, The Spooktralizer Needs a Doctor.If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you'd like to support

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00:51:37

Episode 427: The Wolf-to-Corgi Pipeline

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2024/10/08

Spooklore 2024 continues with a reading of Men-Wolves, a three-act story about a Witch who just can't get her one spell to work right.Suggested talking points: Ol' Gloomy NotJohn, Got the Wolf Quivers, Magic Pants Feelings, Tobias Fünke's Furry OC, Like Sailor Moon if Sailor Moon Sucked, You've Got Wolf Starring Tom HanksIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthingsIf you'd like to support Tyler's artistic endeavors, visit:

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00:45:45

Episode 426: Behaving to Death

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2024/10/01

Spooklore 2024 begins with readings of both The Book of Magic and The Willful Child, two tales selected for their strong connective tissue to one another, and certainly not for their brevity!Suggested talking points: Bonesblood City Magicbook, Pandering to the Spooktralizer, Dracula and Buddies, A Greater Concentration of Diabolicalness, Fill Your Home with Demon-Summoning Books, The Bro-WhispererIf you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit:

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