Episode 076 – Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore

This month we’re reading Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore. We talk about the internet, oral stories, where to start reading superheroes, the problems with incredibly long books, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
• Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm by Varla Ventura
• Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms
• Christmas Customs and Folklore: A Guide to Season Rites by Margaret Baker
• • Hark! Podcast
  • Jingle Bells written by James Lord Pierpont
  • Wassailing
  • Haxey Hood
  • Boggans – Changeling: The Dreaming
  • Snap-dragon (game)
• Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O’Brien
• Here Comes a Chopper to Chop Off Your Head: The Dark Side of Childhood Rhymes and Stories by Liz Evers
• • Ring a Ring o’ Roses
• Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec
• Les grandes légendes du Québec : un tour du Québec en 25 récits traditionnels
• Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder’s Fork and Lizard’s Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles by Marty Crump
• Medusa’s Gaze and Vampire’s Bite: The Science of Monsters by Matt Kaplan
• Crash Course Mythology
• White as Milk, Red as Blood: The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth translated by Shelley Tanaka and illustrated by Willow Dawson
• • Willow Dawson’s website
• Contes du Nord illustrated by Kay Nielsen
• • Kay Nielsen – 43 artworks

Other Media We Mention

• Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
• PBS Idea Channel
• • How is Slender Man Internet Folklore?
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
• • What If? Website

Links, Articles, and Things

• Kelpie: “malevolent water horses”
• Jack Zipes: “an American academic and folklorist who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales”
• Slender Man
• Creepypasta (just spooked myself out by watching some videos on Petscop…)
• Afrofuturism
• The crew of the Argo
• Folklore of Quebec
• Protein poisoning
• Russian Fairy Tales
• Baba Yaga
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comic series) (Sonic News Network wiki)
• Transformers Wiki (read the image captions)

Favourite Folklore/Fairy Tales

• The Girl Without Hands (The Handless Maiden)
• Vasilisa the Beautiful (girl sent to Baba Yaga’s hut)
• The Yule Lads

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