Spooky season begins on Fairy Tale Fix! Kelsey reads a haunting tale called The Leg of Gold from Ruth Manning-Sanders’ A Book of Ghosts & Goblins, generously donated by a friend of the pod Chris Otto, followed by an…interesting (gross) story called The Strange Feast by the Brothers Grimm. Abbie […]
Back for season three! The crew run into some mechanical problems on their trip. Everything was going a little too smoothly.
This week’s episode is very ~aloreing~ and features some very special guests! Kimmy and Ryan from the comedy folklore & cryptid podcast Aloreing join us to talk creatures and cryptids found in fairy and folk tales (when we can find them). Will their prior knowledge of Jezinkas and Kelpies help […]
Team Torta finds themselves in the middle of a Worm Prom tango, but this ain’t a dance that they want any part of! As the giant worms demand a tussle, the party members bob and weave out of the way. But what’s so fascinating about these worms? What would make […]
At last, an episode all about talking cats (sort of)! Abbie cracks open a new book to tell the Japanese tale of the Vampire Cat of Nabeshima, which is pretty much just as cool as it sounds. After, Kelsey brings you the adorable palate cleanser The Small, Small Cat.
While being peppered by delayed fireballs, Team Torta finds themselves between a rock and a hard place. Fending off crystal shards and crystalline blows alike, the adventurers take to the skies or hold their ground as they get ready to rock and roll. Can you smell what the rocks are […]
We got a new book, River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau and it is FILLED with some fantastic stories. Kelsey reads some poetic nonsense that leaves us feeling dreamy with The Stars in the Sky, and Abbie reads a much darker but super cathartic tale The […]
Abbie reviews House of the Dragon: Episode One Welp, I ended up watching House of the Dragon, as I knew I was going to eventually. I’m not physically able to stop myself from watching a show about dragon riders. I just finished episode one and I can already tell this […]
Into the crevasse we go! Team Torta descends into the Rimekeening Crevasse in search of a hero long thought lost. But trouble continues to follow the group wherever they go – from the skies, from the ice, from the chicken or the egg who knows which one attacked first, but […]
