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 If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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 The Folklore?

Episode 289: The Authority on Bird Fear

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 If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 288: Infinite Jam that Drowns the World

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  If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 287: The Patron Saint of F*%k

This week on What the Folklore? we conclude The Fairy of Dawn, and shocking no one, find ourselves much more enamored by the cadre of horses than literally any other character. Oh, and a new cult dropped.Suggested talking points: The Justice Binary, The Goddess of Wednesday,  Land Sirens, How Windy Are These Dogs?, When the Dayball Sleeps, Yelling at the Lying Box If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>If you'd like to support Gordie's Tabletop RPG Kickstarter, visit: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gordiemurphy/reliquary-a-science-fantasy-world-building-tabletop-rpg">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gordiemurphy/reliquary-a-science-fantasy-world-building-tabletop-rpg</a>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.

Episode 286: Cult of the Moon Ogre (The Fairy of Dawn, Part 2)

This week, the three intrepid heroes of What The Folklore achieve their destiny, which for some reason was to hear the Romanian tale The Fairy of Dawn. Beggars can't be choosers, I suppose.Suggested talking points: Live Weather Requests, A One Alarm Lifestyle, Dragon Fingers, Quantifiable Horse Beauty, The Bottom of God's Lego Box, There's a Horse in You All! If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>If you'd like to support Gordie's Tabletop RPG Kickstarter, visit: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gordiemurphy/reliquary-a-science-fantasy-world-building-tabletop-rpg">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gordiemurphy/reliquary-a-science-fantasy-world-building-tabletop-rpg</a>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.

Episode 285: Neighs to Neighs, Horse to Horse (The Fairy of Dawn, Part 1)

This week on What the Folklore, we head on over to Lapland to hear the story of The Elf Maiden, which is not so much a story as it is a series of refusals to the call of adventure. It really makes you think about society, don't it?Suggested talking points: The Arkansas Community College Fightin' Balanced Breakfasts, Cinnamon Toast Slurp, Grand Theft Barno, Punch Tree Make Pants, Beef From Another World, Guided Fairytale Tour If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>If you'd like to support Gordie's Tabletop RPG Kickstarter, visit: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gordiemurphy/reliquary-a-science-fantasy-world-building-tabletop-rpg">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gordiemurphy/reliquary-a-science-fantasy-world-building-tabletop-rpg</a>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.

Episode 284: The Metaphorical Pants of Society

This week on Wtfolklore, we take another trip to Japan to hear about The Girl with the Wooden Helmet. There's also a very loud, pesky cat that keeps interrupting the audio, it's so weird. Anyway, hope you enjoySuggested talking points: For the Love of the Crime, Glue Helmet vs. Pig Helmet, Wet Ass Sea Shanties, Pull the Sick out of my Wife, The Annual Buckethead Google, A Loosey-Goosey Approach to "Evidence" If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 283: Who is That and Why is Hat?

The time  has come for the thrilling conclusion to d'Aulnoy's epic tale The Blue Bird. Will something inanimate come to life? Will there be a volcano? You may be surprised, dear listeners.Suggested talking points: We're Not Done with Ooze Yet, Reinstate the Bird, A Jim Butcher Novel Waiting to Happen, It's Egg Time. If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 282: The Pie is Also a Doctor (The Blue Bird, Finale)

This Week on WTFolklre, we continue to read The Blue Bird by Madame d'Aulnoy, where things take a turn for the even goopier and oozier, and now demons may be involved? It's hard to say. Oh, remember that wizard? He's back.Suggested talking points: These Frogs are Too Powerful, A Timeshare on Daughters, Oozy Sleep, Daytime Crying, The Air Freshener of Traitors, Round 9 of King Hunt If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 281: You Too Shall Ooze (The Blue Bird, Part 2)

This Week on WTFolklre, we once again subject ourselves, and you our dear listeners, to a tale from one Madame d'Aulnoy, titled The Blue Bird. If you think we finish the story in this one sitting, buddy you must be new around here.Suggested talking points: Airport for Meanies, Directly from Brain to Wall, Myth Times Twitter, The Oozy one and the Eighth Wonder, Optimus Bunny, The Sloppiest Dragon If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 280: Enter the d'Aulnoycalypse (The Blue Bird, Part 1)

This Week on WTFolklre, we read The One About Coyote Going West, a Cherokeean tale about the time two lesbian coyotes dressed as Santa save Christmas with Raven Symoné by farting on Cherry Man atop a pile of toaster ovens...no really. For reals!Suggested talking points: Concurrent Reincarnation, Baby Dumdum Stories, Nothing Begets Ducks Begets People, Frozen III: Ovens, Elsa Butt Lesbian Santa Capitalism Mistakes If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Epsidode 279: Trustworth E. Coyote

This week the WTFolklore Gang reads The Ass, The Table, and The Stick from merry ol' England, as was requested by @kerfuffle on our Discord server, who's fault this all is. Over the course of the journey, we learn the true meaning of wealth, and meet the Demigod of SlapstickSuggested talking points: A Country of Go-Getters and Morons, Stick Rich, Donkey Bank, A Dumb Ride on Gravity, A Weird One-Sided Speed Date, Personalityectomy If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 278: Tom Bergeron's Collection of Drowning Videos

On a very scientific WTFolklore, we learn the origin point  of platypuses, courtesy of the Australian tale, How Platypuses Came to Australia. We also learn a surprising amount about ladders and the various despotic figures of the animal kingdom.Suggested talking points: A Lit House, If Ears Could See, Ladder Detour, Turkey Brothel, Keeping a Duck Wife, Duck Hitler v. Turtle Hitler, Oversold the Science If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 277: Half-Turkey-Half-Rat-Half-Duck-Half-Turtle, All Action

This week on WTFolklore, we read The Wise Dog, a story from the Yoruba Tribe of Africa. Have you ever wondered why there  is so much trouble and strife in your life? Apparently Africa thinks it's your mom's fault, and they have some compelling evidence to back up the claim.Suggested talking points: "Smartest Book Ever" by E.R. Udite, Brevity is the Soul of Smart, Jane Whimbus, Jefferson Choo Choo, Disney's "The Guy and Where He Lives", The Great Grandog in the Sky If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings">https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings</a>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.

Episode 276: Prefasa and Nufasa

In this return to the Ramble format, we get back to basics as we really appreciate the craft of crime, measure our heights against various dictatorial figures, and take a more carceral approach to child rearing

Ramble's Revenge

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.