Fabric of Folklore

About Fabric of Folklore

Fabric of Folklore is a folklore podcast for curious, lifelong learners exploring myths, fairytales, music, and traditions from cultures around the world. Each week, we go beyond retelling legends and folktales to uncover what they reveal about the shared human experiences that connect us — because the story is important, but what's underneath is the gold. We're weaving the fabric of our past and present stories to move from feeling disconnected from our roots toward a deeper sense of continuity — grounded in the wisdom of the tales that shaped us. These stories, many rooted in oral history, remind us what it means to be human, connected to one another and to this earth, like the gossamer fibers of a spider's web. Though we live in drastically different corners of the world, folklore reminds us our hearts and minds beat as one human race.

Publisher

Fabric of Folklore

Category

arts · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Mar 2023

Latest episode

20 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

121 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Scheherazade: The Woman Who Outsmarted a King with 1,001 Stories (Storytelling)

   Scheherazade: The Woman Who Outsmarted a King with 1,001 Stories After a series of executions left his kingdom in terror, King Shahryar took a new bride each night — and had her killed by morning. Scheherazade volunteered anyway, armed with nothing but her wit and an endless supply of stories. Each night she left her tale unfinished at dawn, forcing the king to spare her one more day to hear the ending. This is the real story behind One Thousand and One Nights — how storytelling itself became...

2. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Pandora's Box: Storytelling Episode

   Pandora's Box: Where Curiosity Really Came From The myth everyone knows — but not everyone knows it right. Zeus's "gift" to humanity was actually a punishment, the box was really a jar, and the one thing that stayed inside might be the most debated detail in Greek mythology. We unpack the real story of Pandora, what Hope was doing at the bottom of that jar, and why this myth still shapes how we talk about curiosity and blame today. #folklore #greekmythology #pandorasbox Listen to The Fisherma...

3. 

   19 Aug 2026

   The Brahmin, the Tiger, and the Jackal: Storytelling Episode

   A Brahmin walking down the road hears a tiger trapped in a cage, begging to be freed. Against his better judgment, the Brahmin opens the cage — and the tiger immediately threatens to eat him, arguing that ingratitude is simply the way of the world. Desperate, the Brahmin insists they ask a neutral party to judge whether this is fair. One by one, they consult a tree, a buffalo, and a road, each of whom sides with the tiger, citing their own bitter experience of human ingratitude. Just as the...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

75,267

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

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Quality

87

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

75

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