Folklore

slavery. African slaves acquainted the Spanish and Portuguese with thousands of words into their language. They incorporated their myths, brain teasers, proverbs and stories along with the Amerindians and Europeans to create the abundantly diverse folklore of South America. The labor that the African slaves provided South America helped their economy tremendously. They made other substantial impacts on the South American societies with the introduction of new crops like okra, black beans, red…

colloquially paraphrase what you were trying to say, I believe that you’re are calling Death a slave to man, and that Death serves you, not vice versa. This quote also inspired a change in my ideas, as we humans are known to be the servers of Death from old folklore, and we are known to be weak compared to that of such strong beings like Death, but by understanding this quote I believe that you’ve changed another one of my opinions on Death. You’ve changed my opinion so that I believe Death is…

Post-colonial literature deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies through literature. This term has been started using after the Second world War in terms such as the post-colonial state and has carried a chronological meaning, designating the post-independence period. However, from the late 1970s the term has been used by literary critics to discuss the various cultural effects of colonization. It was Gayatri Spivak who first used the term Post-colonial in the collection…

Eugen Weber, author of Peasants into Frenchmen, examined how rural, French peasant communities transformed between 1870-1914. Urban travelers who passed through these communities often encountered people who they considered to be backward who spoke different languages and believed in various magical powers. Weber’s thesis was that the incredible change that swept through the French countryside occurred roughly forty years or so prior to World War I. France only became a unified nation when the…

active, updated, or wealthy, had two primary large cities. These were named Athens, and Sparta, although Athens was the larger of the two. The city was named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom. The myth behind this reasoning was one told in many folklore to this day. It’s said that between Poseidon, the god of the seas, and Athena, the towns people wanted to find who would become their benefactor so-to-speak. Poseidon gave the city water, providing streams throughout the city, promising for the…

woman’s physique doesn’t make them any less capable than men, people are still continuing to make connection between strength and competency. Because of this material difference men are put on a pedestal--the strong heroes, the brave princes in folklore, the soldiers of war; they are ultimately the champions of society. However, there are different types of strength, such as emotional. Controversial to the common belief, a woman’s emotional strength is said to be greater than that of a man’s.…

Claire Crabtree also elaborates in her article “The Confluence of Folklore” on Tea Cake’s ability to make Janie happy without enforcing his beliefs on her: “Tea Cake represents something more to Janie than the presence of a single man. Tea Cake combines a sense of his own identity as a Black and a concomitant ability to…

exceeds male dominance. Conversely, Christine represents racial diversity, as she is a combination of African-American and Jewish ancestry. Her appearance is described as “the ideal beauty of legend and folklore – name the nationality, specify the ethnic group. Whatever your legends and folklore bring to mind for beauty of face and form, she would be it, honey,” (Ross 37). Her physical appearance surpasses traditional Greek standards of beauty and introduces a nuance in biracial depictions. Her…

“We know what we are, but not what we may be” (Shakespeare 207). When I was in elementary school back in 2003, I did not know that there was an unspoken rule of not involving ourselves with people who were deemed as “inferior” in the school at the time. I also did not make the connection that I was considered as an “inferior” to the eyes of my peers at the time. At the tender age of six, I liked to wear hair bows with bright colored dresses with two pigtails, a usual young girly girl style.…

predicting the King will have the hands of a healer, healing those who are near death after a war with athelas, a common weed (Tolkien, Return 112). This fulfilment shows both the mystic accuracy of such poems, as well as the general significance of such folklore to the people of Gondor; poetry is used to show the values and important messages of the race of…