Folklorica
Folklorica
Straw Hut Media
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
The Girl in the Chest
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 Goodfrom The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore published 1921Love u.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 27, 2021
57 min
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!Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 18, 2021
1 hr 10 min
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 SongThe 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 [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 25, 2021
1 hr
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.Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 24, 2020
55 min
The Bishop and the Tohunga
A Maori tale about Bishop George Selwyn and a very cool Tohunga.Read the full text of the story hereListen to that weird folk song that Clayton foundGaze in wonder at the beautiful Mokoia IslandWatch our friend's friend, Taika Waititi's TEDx TalkFollow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 11, 2020
1 hr 9 min
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). Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 2, 2020
58 min
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).Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 27, 2020
1 hr 18 min
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. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 19, 2020
1 hr 6 min
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. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 29, 2020
46 min
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. Follow us for sporadic posting on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your secrets at [email protected] more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 21, 2020
55 min
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