Folklore

Japanese culture, I was intrigued by the shift in connotations or views of Japanese yokai from the ones depicted in traditional folklore to that of modern media. In this essay I will endeavor to convey how the media has transformed the yokai image to one of popularization in order to better relate to the masses. Yokai, are strange and supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore and is sometimes translated as monster, demon, spirit, or goblin, but it can encompass all of that and more. The…

office returns for one single movie. The Cars merchandise is more valuable than the movies, which still shows how Disney’s other properties are worth more to the company for the profit made. The two most popular Disney films based largely on American folklore, not partly, based on box office revenue are Song of the South (1946) and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955), which made 65 million dollars and 2 million dollars, respectively. Very little merchandise exists for either of these…

bloody. When people are that bad and ruthless they are never forgotten and their spirit is always there to haught you. Bloody Mary is mostly known as a drink you can get in a bar. But, Bloody Mary was actually a person who is part of historical folklore and is known everywhere. But, her name isn’t really Bloody Mary. Her real name is Mary I, she was born February 18th 1516. She was the only child of Henry VIII, Then she was the queen of England and Ireland until she passed away in…

within Haitian folklore and their now worldwide influence cannot be coincidental. Therein, I will run my finger along elements of Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of Folktale to show that Robert Kirkman’s comic series The Walking Dead corresponds with Propp’s thirty-one functions of folklore, and to demonstrate the findings in correlation to the similarities found in zombie mythology and European oral fairy tale traditions. I exemplify some key functions that exist within nearly all folklore,…

The traditional folklore Lotus Lantern, which created anonymously, was passed down orally since Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) for more than 700 years. The original name of that folklore was Prince Chenxiang Splits the Mountain Hua, which developed around several main characters—Shengmu, the Goddess from heaven, later married a mundane village doctor Liu Yanchang. They have a child afterwards, whose name is Chenxiang. Shengmu’s brother Er Langshen holds the opinion that it is highly banned for a…

Heroes and monsters help to shape the identity of modern culture as well as cultures shown in ancient literature. In the ancient Anglo-Saxon folklore Beowulf, monsters and heroes were created to contradict one another and contrast the desirable and undesirable traits in a culture. A hero portrays all valuable and honored traits in a society, while monsters help to reveal the undesirable traits as well as push the hero to his boundaries. In the Anglo-Saxon culture a hero was to be a strong,…

represent stories that are false more and more as years pass. Myth storytellers both past and present, on the other hand have assumed reality is to complex to grasp, so they have begun to rely on stories to provide at least a glimpse on complexity. Folklore, Courtly, and bourgeois are all closely related in the mythic world. All three originate in ancient myths. Each one of them have changed over the years to fit certain generations. Mythic story tellers have told stories for years, like the…

Within Manuel Aguirre’s “Gothic Fiction and Folk-Narrative Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” and A. A. Markley’s “Mary Shelley's ‘New Gothic’: Character Doubling and Social Critique in the Short Fiction.” we see the reevaluation of the presence of the gothic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Gothic as both a genre and a form of literary narration and Shelley’s usage and possible manipulation of is pondered over in both article. Manuel Aguirre argues that Shelley’s Frankenstein…

The value of life is a very important part of these myths. Nobody wants to die or give their soul away. Gwyligi has been known to harm people, and the devil wanted to take a soul of a stranger, but Jack gave him a dog instead. Both of these myths are based on Christianity. Christianity is a religion based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, and an ongoing battle with the a deceiving devil, often referred to as satan. In the second story, the devil tries to deceive Jack and take a soul, but…

The Irish Renaissance was a period of time in which there was a great desire to connect and revitalize the old energies of folklore, myth, and magic with the new, creating a new cultural nation of Ireland. Lady Gregory’s 1910 folklore “Biddy Early: Healer,” is composed of multiple folklore of the aid Biddy Early gave to the poor, desperate rural people of Ireland during the Post-Famine Era in 1890. Although some people had doubted Biddy Early, the mythical and magical lore associated with her…