What The Folklore?

We've got our first listener suggestion, and as requested last week, it is primo sleepover game material: a good old-fashioned "boff marry kill." If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

We're dipping into a series of Anansi stories this week, which naturally leads to the creation of a new Yonder Toad villain, and a sitcom about neighbors doing sex to each other. This episode brought to you by executive producer Carl with a C, Aarne-Thompson type 1628, "The Learned Son and the Forgotten Language" Suggested taking points: Welsh challenge, fish propulsion, Victorian sensory deprivation tank for cleaning and bathing, a very Garfield thing to do, a very cordial mugging, human hairtepede, my favorite Speed Racer trenchcoats, orthopedic cowboy boots, Time Allen If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

What dumb or weird games did you play as a kid? We're full of them, ranging from a prey-like version of tag, to a game called mopball that you can play for $8 in a Dollar General. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

"The Three Snake-Leaves" is your classic tale: boy meets girl, girl dies, girl had a clause in that pre-nup demanding he be buried alive with her if she dies, boy goes into the grave with her, snakes happen. Pretty basic stuff. This episode brought to you by executive producer Haley S., Aarne-Thompson type 1881, "Carried Through the Air by Game Birds" Suggested talking points: Grimm the engines, the revolution will be periscoped, next of K, anti-hangman, my brotherdad, the wine-addled almost-king, snake attorney, by AC/DC, the speedrun king, non-murder separation, the underbog If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Hope you're ready to learn about the next great anime, because we have conceived, here on this very program. There's crime, fast cars, and rules for buffet lines involved: only the best. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This story "Crystal the Wise" absolutely does NOT end how it should, but there's a lot of potential there. That means it's time to get into the folklore playground, and mix it up a bit! This episode brought to you by executive producer Kaitlyn B., Aarne-Thompson type 236, "Imitating Bird Sounds" Suggested talking points: beer horse, geography secrets, a gift for data analysts, air buttress & buttress, princess fire style, a weird place for a trapdoor, downstairs is helltime, Merry Knifemas If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

There's a ten year old out there with better jokes than us, and here are several of them. We're also on the lookout for some particular collectible coins, so send in your hot tips please. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

"The Girl Who Trod On a Loaf" is a Lovecraftian nightmare disguised as a morality tale: though the morals are also questionable. Maybe Hans Christian Andersen was working through some stuff when he wrote this one. This episode brought to you by executive producer Jen, Aarne-Thompson type 1387, "A Woman Draws Beer In the Cellar" Suggested talking points: FBI escape, cereal frog nuptials, the Underseller, the dark side of Cooties: the game, panic room full of food, bread boogeyboard, marsh-booze, brewery gas huffing, hardened bread foot, load-bearing joke inspector, Inger In Bogeyland, the Hithertoad, poetic tag-ins, corrosive cry-tear, stinkdrink If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Shrek thoughts are always relevant, right? We hope so, because a child drew a picture of anime Shrek and it turns out there are a LOT of relevant images online. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

We're reading "The Journey West" again! It's been over a year: both for us and for the Monkey King, who has been in jail for a loooong time. With good reason too. This episode brought to you by executive producer JP, Aarne-Thompson type 154, "A Sack Full of Dogs" Suggested talking points: enhance on audio crime, self-fruit cannibalism, dry use pool noodle, cubhub clothing delivery, ear storage, everything is clothes, big little backwards water, body based sorrow, psychic in your mouth, the pancake spectrum If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Accidental crime is on our minds this week: have we committed any? How big of a crime is it to forget a taxes? What if you totally meant to do something, and it just... got away from you, is that a crime? Where do you check these things? Also included: a tale of deportation. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Our story this week, "Life's Secret," makes a big claim. It's right there in the title. But does it deliver? Of COURSE not. This episode brought to you by executive producer Whisper Biscuit, Aarne-Thompson type 1626, "Dream Bread" Suggested talking points: ADIDAB, the vertebrate limit, shrimp slumlord, King's First Disappointment, fixer-upper racehorse, pomegranate hot, dating site metrics, my favorite sport pigeons, bread + time = dead, ESPigeoN, dreams of bread, Fifty First Deads, dead teen marriage If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week we're checking in on how the World Cup-sometimes known as the Big Kick-is going so far, review Carman's first day devoted to podcast duties, and lil Jerry has some thoughts on faces. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

"The Four Feathers" is a bizarre narrative featuring some (probably unintentional) surrealist horror. But that's what you get when you put a four-year-old in charge of things. This episode brought to you by executive producer Christopher, Aarne-Thompson type 106, "Talking Like an Animal " Suggested talking points: a chance for German, German name fluency, a cool kind of begot, baby laundering, hot bod god dad, the good word of basic hygiene, the true story of Yankee Doodle, the toddler hierarchy of needs, a horse's destiny, a silent yler, Macy's day bug-out bag, a bony pony If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

We're trying to assess Cricket's job performance, and... there's no way around it, she's just not meeting performance goals. There's also a section on our favorite billboards, and some fun new ways to go about getting a massage. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week's story, "The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child," was the inspiration for the movie Princess Kaguya. What we ended up with is not exactly that movie, which is great. This episode brought to you by executive producer Kyle, Aarne-Thompson type 207C, "The Bell of Justice " Suggested talking points: bamboo bling, Zoloft Jr., Call of Duty: Again, the most dedicated peeping toms, the solar flare self-defense, Stare-ano Bamboogerac, OkBuddha.com, please appraise my hopping teen, doing a driveby on some islands, peekabo signals, rejections by poem If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

What's wrong with the old barter system? Why do we need money? There are some sweet trades available if you keep your eye out. This week we're talking about some of the good barters we've done recently. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Come for the weird asbestos water, stay for the hero who fights off witches with a spoon: we're reading "Tatterhood" this week. It's a story with a whole bunch of interesting stuff waiting at the periphery. This episode brought to you by executive producer Timothy, Aarne-Thompson type 675, "The fool whose wishes always came true" Suggested talking points: David Bowie's best album, bicycle-licking days, the star child of folklore, 30 minute child delivery, Tatter McClain, beggar trash friend, practice kids If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week we're discussing what it would be like if we turned the government over to mice, and about a plan to convince the people that fish traveled over land to achieve manifest destiny. If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

We're back in Grimmland this week with "The Crows." It's a story with a much better story going on in the margins about one woman's total control over a town, and a possible nemesis. How much of that did we add? Folklore changes, it's an oral tradition. Which means it's all canon. This episode brought to you by executive producer Dom, Aarne-Thompson type 1313, "The Man Who Thought Himself Dead" Music from: My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland Suggested talking points: merc with a mouth, Old News the stripper, the stripper hegemony, Ghengis Khan Realties, supermugging, crucified lite, Yonder-Toad, a Chuck-E Cheese crucifixion, Old News' secret police, Chekhov's loaded blind dew If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.