Folklorica

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Email us at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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). Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Italy! Lizard fairies and ungrateful goats.

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). Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Worms. Demons. Suicidal birds. It's a Jewish folktale that inspired a lot of personal stories so naturally we ramble!

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. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A story from Japan. Paper cranes. Killer sharks. And our very first guest, Maddy Cross.

It's the story of a good little dude. Read the full text of The Story of Benito from Philippine Folk Tales collected by Mabel Cook Cole and published in 1916. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the story of a good little dude.

Maybe it's not always a bad idea to climb into a sack in Iceland. A tale with twists and turns and a good old grey man from Icelandic Legends by Jon Arnason. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maybe it's not a bad idea to climb into a sack in Iceland. A tale with twists and turns and a good old grey man.

A tale from Tibet about a real dumb-dumb! Also, our last episode of season 1. What do you want to hear next season? Happy New Year! Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tale from Tibet about a real dumb-dumb! Also, our last episode of season 1. What do you want to hear next season? Happy New Year!

Travel to Catalonia with us as we read uber-cutie Andrew Lang's version of The Water of Life. There will be snarky stones, helpful giants, and talking birds! Wow. What a time to be alive! It's the last episode of the year and the second-to-last episode of Season 1! Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travel to Catalonia with us as we read uber-cutie Andrew Lang's version of The Water of Life. There will be snarky stones, helpful giants, and talking birds! Wow. What a time to be alive! It's the last episode of the year and the second-to-last episode of Season 1!

The Wintu story of a damn good party. Plus.... fish! Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wintu story of a damn good party. Plus.... fish!

You know him. You love him. Dionysus, Bacchus or whatever you call him (daddy?). His origin story is what's on our minds today. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know him. You love him. Dionysus, Bacchus or whatever you call him (daddy?). His origin story is what's on our minds today.

A Scottish tale of warning. Sticky horses! Missing fingers! Backwards hooves! Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Scottish tale of warning. Sticky horses! Missing fingers! Backwards hooves!

A Russian tale from Alexander Afanasyev. Two knights-- one legless, one blind-- what will happen next? Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Russian tale from Alexander Afanasyev. Two knights-- one legless, one blind-- what will happen next?

She was the patron saint of bearded ladies, abused ladies, trans folk and intersex people. We read the Austrian version of her story! Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

She was the patron saint of bearded ladies, abused ladies, trans folk and intersex people. We read the Austrian version of her story!

The Girl Without Hands is one of those Brothers Grimm fairytales that didn't make the cut for Disney adaptations. We honestly don't understand why. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at folklorica@strawhutmedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Girl Without Hands is one of those Brothers Grimm fairytales that didn't make the cut for Disney adaptations. We honestly don't understand why.

Introducing… Folklorica! A podcast about stories hosted by two people who really like hearing, reading and even telling, you guessed it, stories. We're your hosts Clayton Steacker and Maggie Boles. We are amateur ethnographers. Gifted googlers. We travel the world (metaphorically because we don't really have money) and bring back folk tales and legends from far and wide. Have you ever heard the story of the legless knight? Well get ready for that and more! We read, we learn, we discuss, and of course, we struggle to pronounce names. But the important thing is WE TRY. Join us every Tuesday for Folklorica! From Straw Hut Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing… Folklorica! A podcast about stories hosted by two people who really like hearing, reading and even telling, you guessed it, stories. We’re your hosts Clayton Steacker and Maggie Boles. We are amateur ethnographers. Gifted googlers. We travel the world (metaphorically because we don’t really have money) and bring back folk tales and legends from far and wide. Have you ever heard the story of the legless knight? Well get ready for that and more! We read, we learn, we discuss, and of course, we struggle to pronounce names. But the important thing is WE TRY. Join us every Tuesday for Folklorica! From Straw Hut Media