What The Folklore?

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Episode 296: Tell Me a Story Only a Lemon Would Know Jun 01, 2021

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This week, after a little opening Cruella de Scourse, WTFolklore reads The Three Lemons, from Italy. On the happy-ending scale, is it an Immortal Moon Wife or a Breakfast of Stones? You'll have to tune in to find out!

Suggested talking points: Mouth Mutiny, A Thousand-Year Campaign to Ruin Dogs, Horniness Begets Hope, Blood Sausage Poptart, Wife Tree

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Episode 295: Courtship, King Quest, Sad Beanie Baby (The 3 Fairy Tale Genders) May 25, 2021

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This week on WTFolklore, we're reading the Chinese tale, The Waiting Maid's Parrot, and we make a startling number of bird-based revelations in record time. Oh yeah, we've still got it, baby.

Suggested talking points: Snaxedo, The Power of Small Appetizer Shrimps and a Friendly Smile, Old-Timey for "Horny", Shaking Your Leg to an Unnamed Dread, Lynyrd Feathyrd

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Episode 294: Used Whale Dealership May 18, 2021

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This week on WTFolklore, after checking in on the Great Gas Shortage of 2021, we read Kae's Theft of the Whale, a Polynesian tale where everyone just ends up having a ton of fun by the end. Everyone who doesn't die, anyway.

Suggested talking points: The Third Entity, The Genealogical Difference Between Monsters and Muppets, Living BBQ, Bestowing Stronk to Babies, Wizard RAM

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Episode 293: Et Tu, Wall? (The Day Boy and the Night Girl, Part 2) May 04, 2021

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This week on WTFolklore, we conclude our reading of The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald, while also learning a lot about privilege, fallons ids, and the games you can play with nighttime predator beasts

Suggested talking points: Fought, Kissed, or Ignored Each Other, Heading Mothwards, Pony Ollies, Everyone is Witch, The Death Lamp in the Sky, Playing Stink-Tag with Night Panthers

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Episode 292: Wi(mbus) Fi(mbus) (The Day Boy and the Night Girl, Part 1) Apr 27, 2021

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We begin another multi-part episode this week, reading The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald,and get to relive experiencing the moon for the first time in extraordinary detail.

Suggested talking points: Folklore Island, Wolf-Shaped Cranium, Real Embassy Wives of Country, Haunted with Smiles, Deepfake Fairytales, The Majesty of Stairs

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Episode 291: NOT TODAY, CUPID! Apr 20, 2021

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On WTFolklore this week, we read the French tale The Satin Surgeon, and take it upon ourselves to rescue the villain from the unfortunate tropes thrust upon her.

Suggested talking points: Adrift in the Sea of Familyless-ness, A Quick Pants Feeling, No Maps to the Moon, Sometimes Time is Time, 3/4's Dupable

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Episode 290: And So, They Vengefully Kissed the Dwarf Apr 13, 2021

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This Week on WTFolklore, We have a (kinda) double feature, briefly reading A Riddling Tale, followed up by The Grimm Brothers' Snow White and Rose Red, a somewhat plodding story we give a much-needed face lift to

Suggested talking points: Animals Doing Things, Dry as a Wife Should Be, Kids Who Look Like Trees, Bear Scout Cookies, Beauty and the Beast Synldrome

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Episode 289: The Authority on Bird Fear Mar 30, 2021

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On WTFolklore this week, we read The Battle of the Birds, a title that promises us juicy lore, and instead delivers a mishmash of plot points we're all too familiar with already.

Suggested talking points: A Singular Dook, Married to Science, The Whole "Bone Ladder" Business, Ears of Holding, The Key to the Moon
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Episode 288: Infinite Jam that Drowns the World Mar 23, 2021

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This week on WTFolklore, we read "The Raspberry Worm", and encounter a whole new breed of fruit authority. We do get bored and start talking about chicken sandwiches, but you really should've seen that coming by now.

Suggested talking points: an NFT on Hopes and Dreams, Worm Census of Finland, Kid Cocaine, The Lesserberries, Richard Horrifying
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Episode 287: The Patron Saint of F*%k Mar 09, 2021

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On this episode of What the Folklore, after the traditional Kingdom Hearts Cold Open, we read King Bean, a story of dubious Italian royalty, but that is mostly meant to scare witches.

Suggested talking points: Southern-Fried Backhanded Niceness, Noble Bean, The Fetish Checklist, Ableist Witch Bookclub, Expressing Hatitude
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