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.
Fabric of Folklore
Latest Episodes
Scheherazade: The Woman Who Outsmarted a King with 1,001 Stories (Storytelling)
Scheherazade: The Woman Who Outsmarted a King with 1,001 StoriesAfter 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, a...
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Pandora's Box: Storytelling Episode
Pandora's Box: Where Curiosity Really Came FromThe 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...
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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 wa...
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Have you ever read a fairy tale and not quite understood it? Fabric of Folklore takes you down the curiosity rabbit hole — exploring where these timeless stories come from, what they meant to the people who told them, and what they still have t...
Fairy Tale Flip Ep 25 pt 2: The Fisherman and the Djinn
In Part 2 of this Fairy Tale Flip deep dive, Vanessa Rogers and Donna Fields trace the same "something sealed, something freed, someone clever enough to trick it back" story across three different cultures — a Brothers Grimm tale about a woodcu...
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