Folklore on the Rocks

Come listen as we describe and discuss a couple of 'Internet' Folk Tales - folklore that started on and grew from the internet itself!

Cocktail of the Week: The Slenderman

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We're both under the weather this week, so we are releasing the segment we did as part of Blood on the Rocks' WWI Armistice Day Megasode (which was really great and you can listen to it here: https:…

Join us in the rainforests of the Brazilian Amazon as we talk about the Encantado, the shameless, shapeshifting pink river dolphin that might whisk you away to magical world underneath the river! Sor…

Join us in the lush rainforests of Brazil for some fantastic folk tales involving singing monkeys, pretty beetles, bruised toads, and a very depressing buzzard.

Cocktail of the Week: Caipirinha

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Join us for our 3rd episode of Modern Folklore tales! We've got two for you this week, filled with murderous sky fish and avenging puppers.

Cocktail of the Week: The Old Fashioned

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Join us for our second week up in the frigid Arctic as we narrate and discuss four folk tales from the Inuit peoples!

Cocktail of the Week: (Bloody) Caesar

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Join us on a journey to the Arctic tundra to explore the shapeshifting, red-eyed, half-man / half-caribou Inuit creature known as the Ijiraq. Lost in the snow? Could be the Ijiraq misleading you. Dis…

Are you freezing? We're still freezing. So we're continuing to tell stories about winter around the world. Come listen as we narrate and discuss some chilly tales, perfect for the holiday season! Par…

Are you freezing? We're freezing. So we decided to warm up with a boozy drink and tell stories about winter around the world. Come listen as we narrate and discuss some chilly tales, perfect for the …

Have you been nice or naughty this year? Well if it was the latter, you probably had a visit from this week's creature, Krampus, on December 5th. This dark and shaggy goat-demon-man with horns, fangs…

Join us for our second "Modern Folklore" episode! We narrate 3 stories as we delve into the world of No Sleeps, Creepypastas, and Let's Not Meets, which are the kinds of tales that folklore stems fro…

We bring you 4 fabulous tales of Aboriginal Australian Folklore! They are "Creation Story", "Emu and The Jabiru", "The Bunyip and the Swan", and "Tiddalick the Frog", and can be found at http://dream…

Among the swamps and billabongs of Australia there is a vicious and terrible creature that wants to hug you to death - the Bunyip! We're headed down under to explore this fearsome, chimeric cryptid. …

We bring you 3 tales of Slavic Folklore! The book they are from is called "Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen", by Alex Chodsko, Translated and Illustrated by Emily J. Harding in 1896. The…

This week we discuss the Domovoi, the small, hairy, old man that might live under your stove and originates in Slavic folklore. He helps with chores, predicts the future, doesn’t like to be seen, and…

Join us for our first "Modern Folklore" episode! We narrate 3 stories as we delve into the world of No Sleeps, Creepypastas, and Let's Not Meets, which are the kinds of tales that folklore stems from…

The Spooktacular goodness continues with Part 2! October is our favorite time of year so we wanted to bring you something a little different, in the form of real-life ghost stories and creature encou…

October is our favorite time of year so we wanted to bring you something a little different, in the form of real-life ghost stories and creature encounters. Tales like these are the seeds that folklo…

This week we narrated and discussed three South African folk tales from the 1910 book "South-African Folk-Tales" by James A. Honey. The tales were: "Crocodile's Treason", "The Monkey's Fiddle" and "T…