Folklore

people might look at it and think that it’s nasty but it’s actually good. Almost every dish in Honduras will contain some sort of rice and a fruit or vegetable. Honduras has a beautiful cultural dance called Garifuna, El Grande de Grandes and Folklore Dances. These dances are exciting and very intense. The music sounds a lot like African and many different masks are worn. Cities from all over Honduras come together to compete and have fun with the traditional dancing they do. Their costumes…

producing literature as it is currently known in modern society, specifically in the classroom. III. Statement of Purpose I intend to research origin stories, and I will be comparing and contrasting the biblical stories from Genesis to myths and folklore from cultures such as Mesopotamian, Native American, and from Greek mythology. For example, the creation story from Genesis is similar to the Native American myth of creation in that The Great Spirit of the Native people also created the Heavens…

career as a novelist picked up. In 1934, she released her first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, which became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection (Telgen 301). The next year, she gained a widespread of recognition and won a Guggenheim fellowship to study folklore in the West Indies, after publishing Mules and Men (Telgen 301). Before leaving, she had a romance with a younger man, who demanded she gave up her career; choosing her career over their love she ended the affair and translated…

wonders,” (White, 2009). The monsters to which the statement alludes to, in the artistic sense, are the owls and bats flying around the slumbering subject. Whilst owls typically represent reason and intelligence in most Western societies, in Spanish folklore- Goya himself was Spanish- owls represent mindless stupidity and evil spirits. Furthermore, bats in Spain were considered also to be creatures of ignorance, but were also associated with the devil due to their perceived parasitic behaviour…

In the year 1939, William Butler Yeats penned Purgatory (Viana, Maria Rita Drumond). The short play focuses on an Old Man, who returns to his ancestral home in the hope of eradicating the sins that he sees surrounding him, though his logic is twisted (Viana, Maria Rita Drumond). It is this deranged logic that prompts him to murder his father and son in retribution for their sins. The Old Man’s mother is described by him as an apparition stuck in limbo, forced to relive the night of her son’s…

Dissolving Normative Boundaries: Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales Fairy tales, as Jack Zipes argues in Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilisation (1983), adapted from oral folklore and initiated into the written literary tradition was a marginalized genre till the 1970s (1-3). With critics and readers becoming sensitive to the underlying politics of fairy tales, the selection and appropriation of specific tales from scores of popular…

the first two missions established in Texas by the Spanish. In 1945 she was elected an honorary life fellow of the association life fellow of the council. She was dedicated catholic and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Texas Folklore Society and many more member groups. Adina wrote the playlet, The Six National Flags That Have Floated Over Texas, for educational tool about the ethnic diversity in the state. Her occupation was Teacher Historian Preservationist. A group of…

An infamous episode in American history, the Salem witch trials of 1692 resulted in the execution, by hanging, of nineteen villagers, fourteen women and five men, accused of witch craft. Additionally, one man, Giles Corey, was punished by peine et fort, death by pressing (Linder, paragraph 22). These antics could have been the cause of teenage boredom, congregational strife, personal jealousies, and fears of the citizens. The main question is why did this travesty happen in Salem? In 1689,…

Folklore Literary Analysis: “Robin Hood” Disney’s Robin Hood has been a childhood classic that has become very popular over the years; it teaches the kids many lessons, they are taught that no matter what time period you live in, money will always be very important. Though the original Robin Hood had been changed severely due to children audience that Disney attracts, it has many of the same morals. The original Robin Hood utilizes archetypes to show the young crowd that you should take from…

the actual religion of Shinto. The important factor of this form of Shinto was the shamanic role that certain women would take known as the Miko. This role had the duty of being possessed by Kami to utter poems and songs and also in the spread of folklore. After Folk Shinto came what was known as Medieval Shinto. It was this form of Shinto in which many of the Buddhist ideals were incorporated…