We share a lot of folklore on this site, and that includes podcasts about folklore! Let’s explore what each podcast is about and try to sell you on it! There are a lot of great folklore podcasts listed here, we bet you’ll add them all to your library to listen to!

Espooky Tales 

Latin American folklore, myths, legends, haunted places and espooky cuentos del rancho. Hear the stories you grew up with like La Llorona, as well as true stories from listeners and guests. Join friends, Cristina & MJ, every Friday and hear these tales. Stay espooky!

Speculative fiction writer, long-term resident of Japan and Bram Stoker Award finalist Theresa Matsuura explores all that is weird from old Japan – strange superstitions, folktales, cultural oddities, and interesting language quirks. These are little treasures she digs up while doing research for her writing. 

Legendary Africa Folklore Podcast 

Welcome to Legendary Africa! Your gateway into the mythical, magical and legendary world of the African continent. Join Theshira as she encounters dragons, witches, fairies and magicians, listens to stories about demigods, boy heroes and dragon-slaying princesses, runs from ogres, ghosts, vampires and werehyenas, and goes searching for Egyptian treasure! Brought to you by fur-writers, Hestia the Dawg and Athena the Doggo, of the award-winning Canine Creative & Co. Proudly a member of Straight Up Strange Productions. 

What The Folklore?

A comedy podcast that exposes the absurd side of folklore. Each week we read a story, fix plotholes and create new ones, and invent unintended connections between tales. 

Mythos

A storytelling project focusing on region and culture-specific folklore from around the world, complete with immersive narrative, lush music…and a dark edge. Experience traditional tales re-imagined and placed in original contexts. 

Ghosts and Folklore of Wales podcast with Mark Rees: Real-life ghost stories, folklore, myths and legends from haunted Wales. Join Mark Rees – “arguably Wales’ leading authority on the curious and paranormal aspects of the country’s history,” (Western Mail) and author of books such as Ghosts of Wales, Paranormal Wales and The A-Z of Curious Wales – for a fascinating journey through the weird and wonderful history of Wales and the world.

From ‘most haunted’ Welsh castles to fairy-filled forests, discover long-lost cases of pesky poltergeists, seafaring stories of mermaids and mermen, and ancient tales from Mabinogion and King Arthur on this spine-chilling tour of Wales’ magical, fantastical, dark, and, at times, horrible history. Each episode of this unique folklore podcast explores a different topic, and offers Mark’s unique insight and research into: seasonal traditions from the Mari Lqyd to Halloween (Nos Calan Gaeaf); unusual funeral and wedding customs, such as the macabre Sin Eater and eerie corpse candles; how the magic of witches, wizards and the ancient Druids continue to cast a spell over the land today. 

The Folklore Podcast

The ethos of this podcast is simple. To bring world-class experts in the fields of folklore and its associated areas of interest to a wide audience, completely free of charge. 

Folklore, Food, and Fairytales

A unique take on storytelling folklore podcasts featuring stories with recipes and food history connected to each episode’s story. Is the food in fairytales and folklore really symbolic or does it just make the tale relatable? Food and stories have their own rituals and feed different parts of us. If you had to choose between the two, could you? How is the history of food tied into stories? Will this podcast answer these questions or will there just be a great story and a highly tenuous link to a delicious recipe? You’ll have to listen to find out. 

(Formerly Feminist Folklore) Folklore has been used for generations to share stories across cultures. Each week this season Rachael and Mindy, walk the winding path of folklore. They ask how the stories we tell influence today’s culture and how we view women. From murder ballads to fairytales, we discuss the power these stories have over us all. It won’t be just sad but maybe, just maybe, also uplifting. 

Fabulous Folklore with Icy

Fabulous Folklore will give you your weekly fix of fabulous folklore in fifteen minutes (or less)! Hosted by fantasy and gothic horror writer, Icy Sedgwick, the podcast explores folklore, legends, superstitions, mythology, and all things weird, occult and unusual. 

Digital Folklore

Digital Folklore is an immersive audio adventure that takes place inside a fictional universe but explores the real-world truths behind various expressions of internet culture and how each holds up a mirror to the society from which they emerge. 

This is one of the best folklore podcasts is great for audio fiction fans who really, really want to enjoy interview-based shows, or for listeners who love expert interviews and insights but long for something unique and unexpected. 

Join Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus as they explore the wild and wonderful world of online folklore, encountering a wide range of characters – both real and fictional – who provide a wealth of folkloric insight while simultaneously creating new lore. With topics ranging from the absurd to the unsettling, the Digital Folklore podcast is an accessible and entertaining way to learn about folkloric concepts and societal truths. Oh… and be sure to listen carefully – you never know what you might find. 

Bluiríní Béaloidis Folklore Podcast

Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk traditions across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Johnny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future. 

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