Folklore

carried pitchers of water to soldiers and helped with cannon duty during the American Revolution’s Battle of Monmouth. Some historians believe her story is composited of several women who carried water to troops in the war or that her story is pure folklore. Although there are many legends surrounding Molly Pitcher and who she was I will only be writing about one of them, the theory that Molly Pitcher was actually a woman by the name of Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley. Born October 13, 1754, near…

Do you know that there is no true “good” or “bad” in this world? I expect that most people have heard of yin and yang. It is often one of the first things to come to my mind when I think of “good” and “bad.” It is a fairly popular piece of folklore. Now, when people think of it, they often think of good and evil circling forever against each other, even though both spirits have a little of the other in them. In reality, yin and yang are not against each other, they are in harmony together.…

Another, lesser-known personification was Ankou, known in Breton mythology as well as in Cornish, Welsh and Norman folklore. Ankou appears in many tales gathered from oral tradition. As such his description does not always correspond from one tale to another. He is always described as a tall and thin figure clad in black Breton garments, sometimes with glowing eyes, wearing a large felt hat concealing his face, standing up in a creaking cart similar to the ones used during the Middle-Age to…

Romanticism in literature originated in Germany, with famous writers Johann Wolfgang and Samuel Taylor, and quickly spread to America around the 1800 's, after English poetry was revolutionized. Romantics often explore faraway places of medieval folklore and legends in their writings. Mary Shelley learned from the experts, using some concepts from her background and tied it into romanticism in the legendary Modern Prometheus or Frankenstein. In Frankenstein, some of the main concepts of behind…

In the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, there are many of Motifs in the story in the community, the different races and racism, and lastly in folklore and religion. In this prompt I will be going over the motifs in the communities. For example, in the beginning of the story, it starts as Janie in her childhood living with her grandmother (nanny) and living with her cousins. One day Janie realizes she is a colored person and she is treated differently, even in her childhood because all the…

but the person is trying to determine exactly who or where they got their information from. Bartlett’s “War of the Ghosts” experiment provided a source of monitoring errors because after the people learned of the story which is from a Canadian folklore, the people started to associate the story from their own culture background, instead of where the story originally came from. 4) What is the evidence from clinical case studies that “super memory” may have some disadvantages? What are some…

Chapter One: Production From time immemorial when God purportedly tossed Adam and Eve out of Paradise, then cursed Adam to scrabble in the dust for his sustenance to the post-modern era where public outcry against the inhumane factory farming of animals and the rise of the mega-farm with all of the associated horrors of its overuse of chemicals and monoculturalism has become the norm, acquiring enough satisfactory food to feed ourselves and those whom we love has been the most basic, and yet the…

(“BYU Harold B. Lee Library.” Skin-Walkers (Navajo Legend) | World History & Culture | L. Tom Perry Special Collections | HBLL, Brigham Young University , 3 Sept. 2014, sites.lib.byu.edu/worldhistory/folklore-william-a-wilson-folklore-archives/popular-search-topics/skin-walkers-navajo-legend/) I first heard this myth from a friend who is a Shoshone descendent here in Wyoming. He had me so intrigued when the story came to an end I wanted to know more. I later researched…

As such, aspects of heritage including language and folklore are commonly adopted as articles of faith. These practices in many cases lead to a strong correlation between Paganism and nationalism; conversely many other Pagans emphasise progressive thoughts of equality and fraternity at a global scale, focusing…

While events in these three books echo the history of their respective countries, events are not the only occurrence from which inspiration is drawn. The main characters in stories also represent their countries in post-colonial and civil war ages. The Buendia family in 100 Years of Solitude represents different parts of Columbia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendia family are solitary in some way, which is a representation of the solitude of Latin America.…