Episodes

  • The Girl in the Chest

    The Girl in the Chest
    May 27 2021
    It's my chick in a box!
    This week, we bring you the final episode of season 2. As if that really means anything.
    The Girl in the Chest - The Story of the Third Sister Who was Brave and Good
    from The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore published 1921
    Love u.
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    57 mins
  • Bluebeard

    Bluebeard
    Mar 18 2021
    Bonjour. Ready for a French folktale??
    Aujourd'hui on lit "Barbe Bleue" de Histoires ou contes du temps passé écrit par Charles Perrault et publié en 1697.
    Except that we're actually reading the version from Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book published 1889. We've heard it stays very true to the original Perrault version and is in English, which is better for us. Enjoy!
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Bird of the Sweet Song

    The Bird of the Sweet Song
    Feb 25 2021
    A story from the Azqueltán, Jalisco in Mexico!
    Read it as it was published in the The Journal of American Folklore in 1912 here: The Bird of the Sweet Song
    The book Maggie is reading is called How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny O'Dell. Buy it from your local bookstore.
    Read more about the fight for the rights of the indigenous people of Azqueltán.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Saint Nicholas and the Children

    Saint Nicholas and the Children
    Dec 24 2020
    Here we have a very special holiday episode of Folkorica! Clayton reads "Saint Nicholas and The Children" by Cyrus MacMillan from his book Canadian Fairy Tales published in 1922.
    Read more about St. Nick's sweaty bones.
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    Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!
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    55 mins
  • The Bishop and the Tohunga

    The Bishop and the Tohunga
    Dec 11 2020
    A Maori tale about Bishop George Selwyn and a very cool Tohunga.

    Read the full text of the story here


    Listen to that weird folk song that Clayton found

    Gaze in wonder at the beautiful Mokoia Island


    Watch our friend's friend, Taika Waititi's TEDx Talk


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Goat-Face

    Goat-Face
    Jul 2 2020
    From Italy! Lizard fairies and ungrateful goats.
    Goat-Face from Tale of Tales/Entertainment for Little Ones, aka Stories from Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile  in 1634 (1st Volume) and 1636  (2nd Volume).
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    58 mins
  • King Solomon and the Worm

    King Solomon and the Worm
    Jun 27 2020
    Worms. Demons. Suicidal birds. It's a Jewish folktale that inspired a lot of personal stories so naturally we ramble!
    King Solomon and the Worm from A Treasury of Jewish Folklore, edited by Nathan Ausubel (1948). Originally from Jewish Fairy Tales, selected and translated by Gerald Friedlander (1917).
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die

    The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die
    Jun 19 2020
    A story from Japan. Paper cranes. Killer sharks. And our very first guest, Maddy Cross.
    This story is from The Japanese Fairy Book  by Yei Theodora Ozaki, published in 1903.
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    1 hr and 7 mins