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 Thursday for Folklorica! From Straw Hut Media
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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18 Mar 2021
Bluebeard
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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25 Feb 2021
The Bird of the Sweet Song
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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24 Dec 2020
Saint Nicholas and the Children
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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11 Dec 2020
The Bishop and the Tohunga
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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2 Jul 2020
Goat-Face
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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27 Jun 2020
King Solomon and the Worm
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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19 Jun 2020
The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die
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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29 May 2020
The Story of Benito
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.
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21 May 2020
Grey-Man
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.
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2 Jan 2020
The Foolish Young Mussulman
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!
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26 Dec 2019
The Water of Life
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!
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19 Dec 2019
Dance Mad
The Wintu story of a damn good party. Plus.... fish!
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12 Dec 2019
Dionysus
You know him. You love him. Dionysus, Bacchus or whatever you call him (daddy?). His origin story is what's on our minds today.
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5 Dec 2019
The Water Kelpie
A Scottish tale of warning. Sticky horses! Missing fingers! Backwards hooves!
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28 Nov 2019
The Legless Knight and the Blind Knight
A Russian tale from Alexander Afanasyev. Two knights-- one legless, one blind-- what will happen next?
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21 Nov 2019
Saint Wilgefortis
She was the patron saint of bearded ladies, abused ladies, trans folk and intersex people. We read the Austrian version of her story!
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14 Nov 2019
The Girl Without Hands
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.
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15 Aug 2019
Announcing Folklorica!
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
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