What the Folklore?

Our spooky main course this evening is "The Fox Sister," with a short story titled "The Maiden's Grave" for desert. The desert is necessary to wash the taste of the first one out of your mouth. Because of the ending. This episode brought to you by executive producer Maia, Aarne-Thompson type 1334 "the Local Moon" Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

What comic would you create if you were trying to get rich quick? We know what ours is, after performing a careful analysis of other comics. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

"The Gold Teeth" is our second entry in Spooklore 2018, featuring a soundtrack by everyone's favorite late 90s/early 2000s band Mouthsmash! What's the deal with those gold teeth anyway? Are they normal, parasitic, or do they got ghosts? This episode brought to you by executive producer Samwise, Aarne-Thompson type 466, "A Journey to the Other World " Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

We're talking survival this week. Which one of us would survive the longest in the woods? Anyone else remember their machete days as a youth? Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

We're kicking off What the Spooklore with "the Peony Lantern" from Japan. How spooky is it? Our old friend the Spooktrolyzer is back to help us figure that out, but we'll say this: there are probably more ghosts than there really NEED to be. This episode brought to you by executive producer Grace, Aarne-Thompson type 305, "Dragon's Blood as Cure " Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop That ghost thing

The phrase "crime tokens" in the new Spiderman game is a little misleading. What should it mean? Obviously they're something that criminals give to other criminals to show appreciate for their crime skills. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

"Jack and His Master" is an old-fashioned fairy tale about some dum-dums who get into a mess they could have avoided. If any of them had just done the game theory (pushes glasses up nose) they would have known better. Editor's note: there's about a minute of audio that sounds a bit different, this was recorded later because we needed to make sure we had some facts straight. This episode brought to you by executive producer Liz Wilde, Aarne-Thompson type A1241, "Made From Clay " Patreon Our...

Carman's stuck at home without a car, and we have a TV show pitch to keep her company. We're also renaming our fridge, which is... sort of related. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

"The Story of a Scorpion Who Was the Son of Adam" is what we're reading this week, with periodic interruptions of Very Good Ideas that the right people on Twitter needed to know about immediately. The story itself is the result of someone really crunching to make a deadline. This episode brought to you by executive producer Mcatnip, Aarne-Thompson type 2033, "Henny Penny Thinks the Sky Is Falling" Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

Freaky Friday might have missed the possibility that one side of that agreement would not care about the social pressures of their new role, which brings us to this question: would you Freaky Friday with a cat? Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

We're finishing up "The Goddess of Mercy: a Biography of the Bodhisattva" this week, though honestly, we probably could have just called it last week and it would have been fine. Tiger makes a comeback, which gives us something to hang on to throughout the many twists and turns of this story. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

We're reading part one of "The Goddess of Mercy: a Biography of the Bodhisattva," a long and complicated Chinese story about nuns and transforming hell, and a Tiger who just can't catch a break, and... there's a lot of it. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

Hans Christian Andersen's "Garden of Paradise" is another one of those stories that fundamentally changes our overly tangled web of fairy tale interconnectedness. Hans with the heat again: lots of Immortal Bony/Project Birdfall meat for everyone! This episode brought to you by executive producer Ida, Aarne-Thompson type 670a, "the Woman Who Understood Animal Languages" Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

Did they ever ban dogs from playing basketball after Air Bud? Apparently that rule patch never went through, because that franchise ends up with dogs with full personhood. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

"The Three Languages" is a Grimm story that needs a lot of fixing up. Sure there's a super weird Pope ceremony at the end, but what happened to the dogs and frogs? It's a story that demands some grasping at straws to fill in the gaps. This episode brought to you by executive producer Jake, Aarne-Thompson type 766, "the Magic Sleep" Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

We were sent a theory about Immortal Bony that we might have missed, and get into casting our own biopic and figuring out which fairy tale we'd actually want to live in. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

"A Tale of Two Brothers" just has too much going on, and not enough of it is focused on the children's card game at the center of the conflict. There's a lot that needs to be cut away from this story, and that leaves a lot of room for other, better stuff to fill it back up. This episode brought to you by executive producer Roast Rabbit, Aarne-Thompson type 471, "The Bridge to Another World" Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

What's your proudest moment? We've got a whole range of things we're proud of, from reading stunts pulled as children to mysterious crimes pulled as adults. One of us might be a phantom. Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

"The Legend of Tokoyo" is not originally about toilets, but by Golly it will be by the time we're done with it. If you're curious about how bathroom technology ranks, this is your episode. This episode brought to you by executive producer Bee B., Aarne-Thompson type 812, "The Devil's Riddle" Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop

Why do we still sleep on feathers? Seems like there are better options. Would a semi-sentient living bag of organs be better? You decide! Patreon Our website Our Youtube channel Carman's Etsy shop