Femlore Podcast (formally Feminist Folklore)

This weeks special appearances include: an evil stepmother, Baba Yaga, magic thread, and of course... a Csar!  Everyone voted for Baba Yaga last week, so here she is. This tale also has a woman named Vasilisa, who has a magic doll that helps her. Picture Annabelle, but like... you know... less murder-rey... That said, Vasilisa willll need some serious help to impress/survive Baba Yaga.  Music is "Lost in Russia" by TRG Banks http://freemusicarchive.org/music/TRG_Banks/Dreamland/Lost_in_Russia Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our website: www.feministfolklore.com, which has some brand *spanking new* merch.

This week: a Chillean story about a lady who is too smart for her guy. Crystal, the wisest person in her kingdom, is commissioned to tutor King's daughter. While there she meets a snot-nosed prince who she doesn't like, but somehow ends up marrying (?? yea.. we wondered that too). He puts her in some really horrible situations, but its OK, because Crystal is resourceful A.F. Unfortunately, there are a lot of issues with this one. Don't worry Carlea and Rachael are ready to tell you all about 'em. Music this week is "432" by Cambo. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cambo/Home_1081 Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our website: www.feministfolklore.com, which has some brand *spanking new* merch.

This week's story is brought to you by our amazing guest Mindy Scott. She tells us this story of "Chimidyue" a Native South American folktale about a little girl who gets lost in the forest. Chimidyue, though naive, is able to navigate this new world better than she originally thought. Don't worry this one is a definitely not a downer (thank godness!).  Music: "spring_thaw" by The Green Kingdomhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Green_Kingdom/Summer_Tour_Remix_v2_1865/03_spring_thaw   You can see/read the show notes with the full bio about our guest Mindy Scott here: https://www.feministfolklore.com/blog/show-notes-chimidyue-from-special-guest-mindy-scott   Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our website: www.feministfolklore.com, which has some brand *spanking new* merch.    

This week, the femlore ladies are still on holiday vacay. In the meantime, we gift you a classic from the "Disney" vault (just kidding). This one is the real story about Sarah Winchester. A bijillion-airre who maybe just didn't want her family over so she built a mansion. Helen Mirren this one's for you. Happy listening! Story Music: Three Generations by Greg Atkinson Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

Because Carlea and Rachael are on vacation, we thought we would re-release an old episode of ours that you can't find anywhere else! In this episode, Carlea tells a version of the Beauty and the Beast, that maybe you didn't know. You know, less Disney, more rude, ugly guy gets whatever he wants. So... Nothing has changed.  Story Music: Wasteland Dusting by Julie Maxwell Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

Happy Holidays listeners! This week, the femlore ladies bring you two woman-monsters that have been overlooked in our traditional narratives about Christmas. True, one has the nickname "Belly splitter"... and not because she's funny... While the other may or may not send her sons (one of which is named Door sniffer ¯_(ツ)_/¯) to find children to eat. So, yes, they are flawed... But, seriously, why should Krampus have all the terrifying holiday fun? Let's just hope you get clothes as presents and meet those spinning quotas... Amirite?  Music is: Weihnachten am Klavier (Christmas Medly for Piano) by Adolf Gluckhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/Adolph_Gluck/~/Weihnachten_am_Klavier_Christmas_Medly_for_Piano Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

The legend of Koko Head is a Hawaiian myth. Let's quickly sum up: a story where a goddess sends her vagina somewhere else to lure a rapist...? What is happening? Why did it take so long for us to cover this one...? Most of your questions will be answered, no guaruntees though.  Music: Johnny Nobles Hawaiians - Hawaiian Hula Melody (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Johnny_Nobles_Hawaiians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_12172002/Johnny_Nobles_Hawaiians_-_Hawaiian_Hula_Melody) Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

Katie crackernuts? Hardly know her... Ugh, sorry about that. All horrible misogynistic jokes aside, this B is T-O-U-G-H. Not only that, but she knows her worth and she asks for it. Crackernuts (hehe) is the heroine of heroines, she advocates for her sister and saves a prince. Annnnnddd... Her name is crackernuts? Where in the hell do we sign up?  Music: "The Encouragement Stick" by Doctor Turtlehttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/Flush_Your_Rolex_1416/the_encouragement_stick   Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

This week we have a Native American legend from the Mi'kmaq people, this one is a real page turner/ear turner (that's probably not right...). It's a rags to riches (debateable) story of a young woman who takes a chance on an invisible guy. Can't wait to see (pun intended) how this one turns out.  Music is: "Dead Water" by Rest You Sleeping Giant Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

This week, Carlea shares the Chinese fairy tale "The Chuang Brocade". Finally, a hero we can root for . . . sort of? Join us for magic tapestries, horses with human teeth, fairy palaces, and a romance so quick it puts Knocked Up to shame. Music for this week is: "The Magic of Bamboo" by Siddhartha Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

This week prepare to leave happy. Rachael reads a little known annonymously written poem from the Northern Wei Dynasty... Mulan (translation by Hans H. Frankel.) That's right! The Disney movie didn't lie to you! (We are looking at you Disney's version of Pocahontas...) This week, we all confirm the bad assery that is Mulan and bask in it's glow. This one is not as depressing other stories we've analyzed. Huzzah!  Music for this week is: "Nu Flute" and "Temple of the Manes" by Kevin MacLeod  Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.    

This week, special guest Lauren Crossland-Marr (Rachael's twin sister) tells us a story in honor of last week's All Souls Day. It's a macbre topic: churches made of human bones in Italy. It is said that at one church something strange happens every year on November 2nd. Take a listen! And remember: if something sounds smart it's probably Rachael... Probably... Cantique de Jean Racine (Gabriel Fauré) by Les Petits Chanteurs de Montignyhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/Les_Petits_Chanteurs_de_Montigny/Compilation_classique/07_-_Cantique_de_Jean_Racine_Gabriel_Faure Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our NEW website: www.feministfolklore.com.

For Halloween, Carlea and Rachael discuss two short contemporary legends: "The Babysitter" and "The Slit-Mouthed Woman". Are women vulnerable air-heads or savvy survivors? Are they pitiable victims of violence or malicious monsters preying on unsuspecting children? Or, horror of horrors, are women more complex than the archetypes narratives try to reduce them to? Find out in this week's spooklore double feature! Happy Halloween from Feminist Folklore! Music this week is "Haunted Memories" by Ars Sonor. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our website: www.feministfolklore.com.

A tale as old as time… You know the one where the really hot guy is a captive of a fairy queen and might be an all around terrible person…? Its OK, at least this story has one saving grace: the woman saves the man! Refreshing, right? Before you do your "the patriarchy is dead" dance (Carlea and Rachael have one… just in case…) this dude Tam Lin comes with a lot of question marks. And a TON of red flags. Take a listen! Music this week is "Dragon Country (Apple & Clove) Instrumental Version" and "Goodnight Esme (Instrumental version)" by Axletree: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Dragon_EP/Dragon_Country_Apple__Clove_Instrumental_Version_1186http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Cormorant_EP/Goodnight_Esme_Instrumental_version Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our website: www.feministfolklore.com.

This week, we tell the Chinese tale of the Painted Skin. A terrifying tale of makeup... well, more like taking someones body and then painting their skin with the skin of said (now dead) person. Nope, that's not the latest recommendation from Sephora, it's an interesting tale from China. Check it out! Music: "Thunderbird" by Kevin McLeod Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe! We have been receiving some wonderful story ideas, so keep sending them our way, listeners! Find us on Twitter @femlorepod, via email at feministfolklorepodcast@gmail.com, on Instagram @feministfolklorepodcast, and on Facebook at Feminist Folklore. If you're feeling generous, please review us on iTunes. It keeps us alive! Also, take a look at our website: www.podcast.feministfolklore.com. We also have a brand-spanking new YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/IcX66IwIdd0.