What The Folklore?

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Two Kings' Children, Another Grimm tale. Gotta be honest, the boys REALLY phoned it in on this one. We'd have been better off if the prophecy in the beginning actually came true...Suggested talking points: Now That's What I Call Folklore!, Begging to be Final Destination'd, Stag Is Man, Man is Drag, Drag is Food, A Bobble Head to Split the Earth, Kid ROI, The King of QuestionsIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

We'll be honest, we got a little smug this week. We felt confidant in our abilities to predict where a story featuring an Animal A-Team would go. We forgot who we were dealing with...Thanks to Mars for joining us this week! You can also catch him streaming "Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms"Suggested talking points: See and Omen, Say an Omen, A Very Big Monday, Holding onto Whimsy Like a Wolf Holds a Rabbit, Judy Bloom's Childrens Bust-Em-Up Book Awards, An Implied Somersault, Special Secret Execution WaterIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Well, Here we are, right on time, in the first week of 2023. Time to rev up the ol' Folklore machine again, after it's winter slumber. For some reason, we've decided the best way to shake off the cobwebs is the read another Madame d'Aulnoy tale, Fair Goldilocks...but we're gonna need some help.Thanks to Mars for joining us this week! You can also catch him streaming "Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms"Suggested talking points: Madame d'Aulnoy's Best-Fit Cesspit, Before We Invented Babies, Birthname Fastpass, Handsomeguypunzle, Smorgasbord of Violence, No Part Of What I Said Is TrueIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Don't let the title fool you, this is DEFINITELY a Christmas themed episode, and it is chock-full, jam-packed with 3 different tales of holiday cheer, just for you dear listeners. Just don't think to hard about the mysteries of Santa Claus...Suggested talking points: Advent Calendar of Robbery, Festive From a Turkey's Point of View, Off to Kid Mountain, Toy Slough, Stew is Chew, Soup is GoopIf 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 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 read Why the Sea is Salt, courtesy of Asbjornsen and Moe. The answer is much, much closer to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" than anyone could've possibly anticipated.Suggested talking points: Cheerleader Zamboni, The Sandwich Wars Accord, Brothers on Brothers on Brothers, Bacon Hot Takes, The Piss-cific OceanIf 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 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 read The Goat of Mr. Seguin, and in the process accidently dredge up a centuries-old subtweet from an extremely bitter windmill adressed to a semi-fictional character. Oh yeah, and Gordie is back.Suggested talking points: H.P. Amorcraft's "Le Cthuleaux", Not a Windmill in the Classical Sense, The Mastertruck Chronicles, Number One In Raising Children Wrong, Goat Nirvana, The Shape of What Letters Could BeIf 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 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 continue reading Dwarf Long Nose, by Wilhelm Hauff, AKA Satan's Ghostwriter. Based on how things went last week, if you weren't expecting a Fairytale Bake-off, a magic goose, and a war over pastries, you need to turn in your damn folktale gun and badge.Thanks to Dave for joining us this week!Suggested talking points: Atrocity Tourist, Fresh Kitchen Fishin', This Soup is a Steak,  Goose Sounds Like a LadyIf 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 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 begin reading Dwarf Long Nose, by Wilhelm Hauff, AKA Satan's Ghostwriter. In it, our precious good-boy hero is rudely accosted by a strange woman with very particular herb sensibilities. War looms on the horizon...Thanks to Dave for joining us this week!Suggested talking points: A New Fun Boy, The AI Art Equivalent of a Human, Insider Cabbage Trading, Guinea Pig Whistle, A Barber's Decoy, Vegetables are What Keep This House TogetherIf 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 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 reading Sangkuriang or Legend of Tangkuban Perahu, a tale rife with...complicated and troubling genealogies.Thanks to Dave for joining us this week!Suggested talking points: Were-Husband, The Piss Baby's Son So Easily Forgotten, It's a Nanowrimo Miracle!, Throwing a Tantrum So Hard it Creates Geography, Narratively Necessary IncestIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week, while reading The Tale(s) of the White Elephant with Six Tusks, we get some conflicting information on the relative coolness of this elephant. You be the judge, dear listener!Thanks to Melissa for joining us this week!Suggested talking points: 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Zalutations listeners!On this week's episode of What The Folklore, we're reading Three Boys With Jugs of Molasses and Secret AmbitionsMarvel as we descend further into Rootabaga-Tale-MadnessBefore all that, though, Tyler has some spooky-times movies he wants to bring to your attentionI'm truly sorryEven though it eats up the runtime, we hope you enjoySo long, and Happy Spooklore!...Also, thanks to our special guest, Theo!Suggested talking points: 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week on WTFolklore, we hear two different Tales of the Boo Hag, a skinless Sailor Moon who loves to drink breath and hates poker players. Man, Myth-Times had some wild explanations for sleep apnea!Thanks to Dave/Psythe for joining us this week!Suggested talking points: The Boo Spectrum, Subsistence Breath Farmers, Knitting is Sweaty Work, Flayed by Mystical Anime Light, Winner Takes Wife, Lesser-Known "Give a Mouse a Cookie" SequelsIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week on WTFolklore, we're joined again by the magical sweet potato as we read Struwwelpeter, a confusing collection of cautionary tales about some of the worst kids you've ever heard of. Also, a rabbit gets a gun at one point, unrelatedly. Thanks to Jayson for joining us this week!Suggested talking points: The Mythos Manspreading Hour, Shotgun Blast of Baubles, The Fingerkinder, A Colony of Tapeworms, Go to the Whip Closet, The Divine Comedy, For BratsIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

To kick off Spooklore this year, Sun Wukong has us covered by encountering a tree with the creepiest fruit we've ever heard of!Thanks to DEFINEPROG (AKA Matt) for Joining us this week!Suggested talking points: FRUIT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS, Height-to-Demon Ratio, Cup O' Immortality, Bad Cop Worse Cop, Trauma-Bonded to a MonkeyIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week on WTFolklore, we're joined by a talking sweet potato to help us read through Godmother Death, but we do take some side roads to talk about Google's "feeling lucky" button, and how to best christen a new sketchbook. Oh, and lube. Lots and lots of lube.Thanks to Jayson for joining us this week!Suggested talking points: The Robin Hood of Antibodies, WAP (Wealth And Prosperity), Wrong As Rain, An Embarrassment of Vaults, The Non-est Profit, The Scent Of Your SoulIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Breath? You should take a deepFaith? this is quite the leapTaste? You KNOW it's bittersweetThis week on WTFolklore, we face our fears, and recap a tale that, as one Grimoire Highwind puts it, is "Not Meant for Human Consumption". We're also joined by special guest, Nate! Music in chronological order:Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)Face My Fears by Hikaru Utada Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu 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 on WTFolklore, we read The Blue Light, a sort of remix of two other tales we've read rather recently, see if you can guess which! In it, we learn of the terrifying capabilities of color-coded dwarves, and the frightening lengths they will go to in order to alleviate their own boredom.Suggested talking points: Beyond the Pavlov Barrier, Smash That Castle Button, Handfuls of Sherbet, Invisible Smoke Break, King Vs. Lung Cancer Vs. Cudgel, Just Hanging (Out) at the GallowsIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week on WTFolklore, we continue our trudge through Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, this time in China, which is not a sudden change of scenery at all. Turns out life is just nothing but problems, especially if you continually, almost deliberately forget you have a magical genie living on your finger.Suggested talking points: Hungry Hungry Himbo, Disney Movie Crisis Actors, Pitchforks and Palanquins, Rembrandt's State Faire Caricatures, Dwayne "The Bird" JohnsonIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week on WTFolklore, we learn possibly THE most efficient way to squander two genies, chock full of wish-juice, as we begin (but do not conclude) reading Aladdin and the Wonderful LampSuggested talking points: AMAB, Amp-to-Amp Genie Wishes, The Round Boy and Jafar, PLEASE Nort the Vizier, A Cause to Lube Up, Hit-GeniesIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week on WTFolklore, we read pull the ripcord on an Emergency Rutabaga Bomb, and dip back into Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Tales, to read through How They Broke Away to go to the Rootabaga Country. Yes, "rutabaga" is spelled wrong on purpose. Prepare to learn a lot more than you ever cared to know about the gestation of Clowns.Suggested talking points: Turn the Doorknob so the Whimbus May Touch Your Eyes, Weird Creepy Parrots With Grass Hair, Icky Ticket, A Train Kiss, Thriving Balloon Economy, Santa Claus Skin CellsIf 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.