Folklore Reborn
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About This Podcast
Every culture has stories it tells after dark. Not fairy tales. The other kind.
We uncover real legends from around the world: each episode traces a single legend from its origins to the fear that made people tell it, and the places where it is still told today.
The old stories were warnings.
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The Pontianak | Perak, Malaysia
There is a smell that comes before she does. Frangipani. The graveyard flower of the Malay world, white petals planted among headstones because the living thought the dead deserved something…
The Bida | Mali
You are standing at the edge of a well in the hottest city you have ever seen. The stone rim is worn smooth by four hundred years of hands. Gold dust fills the cracks. Drums are beating. A girl in…
The Kishi | Angola
A stranger walks into an Angolan village at the edge of the dry season. He is young, handsome, and speaks with the kind of warmth that makes people lean closer. He knows the right greetings. He…
El Silbon | Venezuela
The whistle starts loud. Clear, melodic, a scale ascending and descending across the grassland at night. It sounds close. That means he is far away.When the whistle grows faint, when it drops to a…
Black Shuck | Suffolk, England
On the fourth of August, fifteen seventy-seven, a violent thunderstorm struck the county of Suffolk. In the market town of Bungay, the congregation of Saint Mary's Church had gathered for Sunday…
The Adze | Ghana and Togo
There is a light in the village tonight that should not be there. Among the fireflies pulsing above the cassava fields, one does not blink. Its glow is steady, cold, and it moves with purpose toward…
The Gashadokuro | Japan
In Japanese folklore, when too many people die and no one buries them, the bones accumulate. Individual identities dissolve. What remains is a collective fury that merges into something fifteen…
The Caleuche | Chiloé, Chile
In the fog off southern Chile, fishermen hear music. Accordion, drums, voices singing in chorus. Then light: a blazing three-masted ship that should not be there. They call it the Caleuche, the ship…
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Folklore Reborn has published 8 episodes since March 2026, covering topics in Documentary, History.
Folklore Reborn is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 13m.
