Folklore

The article “From Folklore to Revolution: Charivaris and The Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837, by Allan Greer” recounts the marital and political events that occurred in the previously French colony commonly referred to as Quebec, or even Lower Canada, during the late 1830s, in which charivaris transformed from the playful mocking of matrimonial ceremonies that were deemed as socially unacceptable, to a form of governmental protest, as a bitter and heinous ceremony. Exasperatingly chronicling the…

Based on the evidence presented in the section Gender and Ghosts of Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore, it would seem that violence both female and male have a large impact on ghost stories among certain regions, cultures, or demographics. This section of the readion shows that there are problems that females and males deal with in real life, such as domestic violence, rape, and the need to be masculine. These issues are all outlined in our culture in many ways, way which also…

Khin Pont Pont Kyaw Professor Fernado Orejuela Folklore F101 13 June 2015 Mini-Ethnography 2: Interpreting Folklore 1) Section One: Biographical Sketch In my mini-ethnography project, I interviewed two informants from two different South East Asian countries. Htaik Khamom is a 20-year-old college student and she looks like any typical Asian woman. She is very skinny, tall, and has light color skin. She currently lives in Bloomington. She came to United States a couple of years back and still…

internationally recognized scholar. She challenges students to interrogate critically the world and human experience as mediated by folklore and belief, and she challenges them to write well and to write as folklorists. Her students respond positively to her challenge because she meets…

Animism is one of the oldest beliefs created by man from the Paleolithic age (Hefner). Animism is the belief that every object, living or not, has a soul (Hefner). There are differences amongst scientists on the original concept of animism (Hefner). Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, an anthropologist, believed that “spirits or souls caused life to humans” (Hefner). He believes that native people used animism to understand the causes of sleep, dreams, and death (Hefner). Another anthropologist, Robert…

overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart” (249). Antonio realizes that the strength that he has in him can withstand the struggles of life. While growing to become a man, Antonio deals with copious catholic allusions from Mexican folklore. Both the family religion of Catholicism and the Chicano cultural beliefs reflect itself inside him. The inner conflict over spiritual beliefs effect the man that he is growing up to be. Juxtaposed to the catholic belief of the…

prevalent in Irish folklore, as those stories focus heavily on enchanted nature. A smaller detail, but something definitely worth noting is the character’s preoccupation with names toward the beginning of the story. Jackson writes, “We’ll have to find a name for your cat” (Jackson, 2), and then later on, “’Now,’ Phyllis said softly, “now we can call your cat Grimalkin. Now we have a name, Grimalkin, and no cat, so we can give the name to your cat’” (Jackson, 9). It is common in folklore for…

Goophered Grapevine folklore characters such as Aunt Peggy the black conjure woman is one of the characters in Uncle Julius stories written by Charles Chesnutt. She takes the center stage and challenges the stigma of women being docile, but instead embodied strength and power and has control over something the white plantation owner wants. As many other folklore stories readers are able to recognize there were used a mechanism to cope with hostile environment. Levine notes that folklore “Offered…

From his introduction Heathcliff is presented as the antithesis of conventional Victorian British societal features and behavior. The initial description that is given of Heathcliff is one of a “… dirty, ragged, black-haired child…it only stared round, and repeated over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand. I was frightened, and Mrs. Earnshaw…did fly up, asking how he did fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house… (Brontë pg. 57). Heathcliff’s presentation to the…

Every community or group is shaped by at least one folklore. This folklore assist in creating what the community values and it contributes in how the community functions. For example, growing up in the Hispanic community, there were millions of folklores that existed. One that really stood out to me as a child regarded something that my parents would call the “coo cooi.” This figure was a spanish version of the boogey man and was used to scare me off when I wanted to do something that my parents…