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Episode 306: Of Mermaids and Murderers Sep 14, 2021

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This week we're reading The Fisherman, which, i'm sure you surmised, given the title of the episode. I mean, what else could an episode title like that imply??

Suggested talking points: A Definite Bean Through-line, Critters of an Unpleasant and Potentially Poisonous Variety, Mermaid Law, Lift Down Things Up for Eat?, Aphorisms for Venture Capitalists

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Episode 305: Living in an Unsustainable Paradigm While a Rabbit Teaches You Math and Evil Aug 31, 2021

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This week we're reading The Candy Cottage, which is some flagrant Fairy propaganda, if we've ever seen any (and we have)
But first, did you know about the strange connection between Holes and Donnie Darko? You will, after the first twenty minutes of this week's show...

Suggested talking points: Dance skills directly inverse to exuberance, Liminal Home and Gardens, the cracker of passion, 4chan made manifest, The Wonka Gauntlet

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Episode 304: Dox'd by the Sun Aug 17, 2021

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This week we're reading Five Times Beautiful, a Grecian variant of Snow White, with a bit of Goldilocks and Cinderella peppered in for flavor. Also, please, we're begging everyone, just leave the Sun alone...

Suggested talking points: Trapped Forever in the Pants Circle, Stan February, Who Would Think to Poison a Hat?, Ye Best Start Believing in the Tomb of Ftub, The Bread-to-Cake Spectrum

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Episode 303: This Episode Is Literally Haunted Aug 03, 2021

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Just read the title. Oh, and we're reading The Buried Moon (courtesy of Joseph Jacobs)

Suggested talking points: Ol' Jenkins, Welcome to Show, Crapterion Collection, Moons are Haute Couture, Neptune is Meowth, One Tiddyssippi

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Episode 302: Sherlock Horse Jul 27, 2021

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This week on WTFolklore, we learn why the Mullberry Worm (more commonly Silkworm) kinda sorta looks like it has an ugly horse's head if you squint at it long enough, courtesy of the Chinese tale The Horse-Headed Daughter.

Suggested talking points: Space Jam III- Time Jam, Extended Tylore, The Fatalism-to-Podcaster Pipeline, Show Me the Horsefax!, The Origin of Email-Kidnapped Grandpas

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Episode 301: Quite Vincible Jul 20, 2021

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Back to our regularly scheduled business this week on WTFolklore: spending the first 15-20 minutes talking about pop-culture zeitgeists instead of what we should be doing. Then we move on to ACTUALLY telling the story of Ilya and Nightingale the Robber, from Russia

Suggested talking points: The Slamjam Weaver, Trees Can And Should Kill People, Birdsonas, Award-Winning Bag of Hotdogs,

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Episode 300: You, Me, and d'Aulnoy Jul 13, 2021

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This week, on an unremarkable episode of WTFolklore, we read The Ram by French baroness, Madame d'Aulnoy. Wait...this sounds awfully familiar...

Suggested talking points: Six Point Ish Years, Brain TV, Sexy Sad-Off, Crown Town or Treasure (Nobody Rides for Free), The Chip of the Century, Two Days From Sheep Retirement

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Music used:
My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Recorder cover by Patrick Synnah)

Final Fantasy Victory Fanfare (FFVI Recorder Version)

Episode 299: A Horse-Curse Waiting to Happen Jul 06, 2021

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Have you ever just...started talking and minutes to hours later realized you've gone completely off the goddamn rails and everyone is looking at you with a horrified expression? No? Well, We think this may be what happened the first time The Children of the Vultures was told in India. Thankfully, WTFolklore is here to apply a, shall we say, modern-day ripcord.

Suggested talking points: The Suggestion of Sound, Cult Juggling, The Day the Melons Bloom, Vitamin D (For Dance), The Handy Disney Pit, Put Your Faith in Phil Collins

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Episode 298: Miscellaneous Man Meat Jun 15, 2021

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This week, WTFolklore reads the Nigerian tale, The Woman, Her Husband, Their Children, and the Dodo. This story features what may well be the single dumbest "protagonist" we've yet encountered, and we're like 300 stories deep into this endeavor, so that's saying something.

Suggested talking points: Secret Snacks, A Grim Spectrum of Entertainment, Pop-up Bird Barbershop, The Sensitivity of Elephants, The Neighbor Without a Face

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Episode 297: The Pros and Cons of Misplacing Fire Jun 08, 2021

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This week, WTFolklore reads the Mexican tale Lord Oppossum Brings Fire to Humanity. Took us 297 episodes, but we've finally met a king who gives a damn about his subjects. Obviously it's not human.

Suggested talking points: Obligated to Perform, Fairytale Estate Sale, Take it to Icky Times, The Piss-end of an Opossum, The Original Tyler, The Big Three: Water, Fire, and Booze

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