What the Spooklore 2021 continues this week with two tales from Appalachia. We're reading about Tailypo and The Bell Witch, though we did give a decidedly meatier spin to that second one.  Suggested talking points: Moss Planet, Monthly Finger Pruning, Autonomous O'Malley, Deep Bud, Beef Vs Machine, Ratsgiving, Beef Tokens 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 310: My Three Dogs: It Knows, It Knows and It Knows

What the Spooklore 2021 begins! We're not reading a singular story this week, but three tales about various haunted locations around New Orleans! Is there a surprise visit from our friend and yours the Spooktralizer? listen and find out!  Suggested talking points: The Witchy Spectrum,  Devil Seminars, Famously Sticky, The Scariest Ghost Story Dogs Tell, Haunted by Smash Mouth, Ghost Tesla Toilet Engine 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 309: Spookweather Friends

This week we're reading Dr. Know-All, which is Grimm Tale #98. Or it could've been the Griww brothers, accounts vary.  We hypothesize it may have been the origin of the farce, as well as the evolutionary junction for humans towards crabs.  Suggested talking points: Agents of the Nothing,  Doct Rs Us, A Fatal Amount of Food, A Doctorate in General Awareness 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 308: It's Hip to be Crab

This week we're reading The Devil and the Guachinango from the Philippines,  and given that title, you'd probably never guess which of those characters we find more sympathetic. Who are we kidding, if you've listened to the previous 306 episodes you've probably got a good idea  Suggested talking points: An Hit Wonder, The Urge, Devil-Sized Jars, Digging Holes for Exposure, Stuck Marrying a Devil in a 21 ft. Hole, Many Much More Money 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 307: Glistening Ab Hologram of Your Dad's Approval

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 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 306: Of Mermaids and Murderers

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 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 305: Living in an Unsustainable Paradigm While a Rabbit Teaches You Math and Evil

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 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 304: Dox'd by the Sun

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 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 303: This Episode Is Literally Haunted

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 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 302: Sherlock Horse

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 RussiaSuggested talking points:  The Slamjam Weaver, Trees Can And Should Kill People, Birdsonas, Award-Winning Bag of Hotdogs,  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 301: Quite Vincible

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 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.Music used: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2WH8mHJnhM">My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowQg7TlM2g">Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Recorder cover by Patrick Synnah)</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzdMhS_xiWg">Final Fantasy Victory Fanfare (FFVI Recorder Version)</a>

Episode 300: You, Me, and d'Aulnoy

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 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 299: A Horse-Curse Waiting to Happen

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 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 298: Miscellaneous Man Meat

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 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 297: The Pros and Cons of Misplacing Fire

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 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 296: Tell Me a Story Only a Lemon Would Know

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.