Podcast Ideas

• Legends
  • contemporary
  • supernatural
  • religious
  • character
  • etiological (origin stories)
  • fortunes won/lost
• Jokes (gender, numskull, coed)
• Tall tales
• Courtship stories
• Personal experience narratives
• Folksongs
• Riddles
• Proverbs
• Folk rhymes
• Chants (sport)
• Curses (faux curse words)
• Taunts
• Tongue-twisters
• Popular beliefs
• Remedies/Cures
• Ways of predicting events or outcomes (sex of baby)
• Good luck/bad luck charms
• Games
• Pranks
• Initiations
• Traditional pastimes
• Festivals
• Customary celebrations
• Rites of passage: birth, maturation, marriage, death

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