Scottish mythology

Chaucer is no stranger to writing parodies of his own stories in The Canterbury Tales, as seen in the Reeve’s Tale working off of and following immediately after The Miller’s Tale. Similarly, The Friar’s Tale closely parallels and also follows right after The Wife of Bath’s Tale. Chaucer aligns these two tales to enforce the point that they should not be interpreted separately, but rather they should be accepted as an entire unit. And by implementing textual similarities, Chaucer blurs the lines…

My Haunted Experiences at University of Indonesia Most people just believe with the thing if they can see, feel, and hear that thing immediately. But believed or not there is another substance in this world which most people can't feel, it called supernatural substance. Some people who have never felt supernatural experiences will not believe that thing. But for the people who have supernatural experiences like ESP, Astral Projection, seeing the ghost etc, supernatural can be an interesting…

The Bird Around Your Neck (A Discussion on the Themes of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner) Everywhere you look, there’s shows, movies, and books that center on the supernatural. “Paranormal and supernatural entertainment has gained significant traction in recent years as it offers a unique opportunity for us to escape our daily lives” (Parmar). The public is transfixed by the idea of the unexplainable, the frightening, and the mysterious. Where does this fascination stem from? For…

E.B. Tylor and James Frazer both did not thoroughly dismiss the ideology of religion like many during the Enlightenment era did. At the time when the Enlightenment Era emerged, reason was the core to the new movement, with ideas such as liberty and separation of church and state was being actively pursued towards the way of human individuality as well as the development of science. Through the era of this new light, both Tylor and Frazier still believed that religion existed, although in a…

Looking at Creation Myths The creation myths of the Norse and Aztecs specifically contain large similarities. The most significant one is the idea that the world was made through the killing of a giant creature. According to Norse mythology there were three creator gods, brothers Odin, Vili, and Ve. The brothers decided to kill the evil giant Ymir and from his body create the world. Once dead, his flesh became the earth, his teeth and bones became rocks, his blood became rivers and oceans, his…

In the past there was no knowledge of what natural gas is, it was a mystery to man. Occasionally, gas would escaping from under the earth’s crust and when a lightning strike reached the gas, it would ignite the natural gas, creating a fire (Natural Gas.org). This was puzzling to early civilizations, which lead to myths and superstitions (Natural Gas.org). In ancient Greece on Mount Parnassus around 1000 B.C., a goat herdsman stumbled across a “burning spring” rising from a fissure in a rock…

Brazilian Cultural Folklore Research Brazilian folklore is filled with European,African and Native American legends.They practiced Catholicism and Protestantism.A legend is something you may believe is true. A myth is a story that can be told but it’s a false belief or idea.A fairytale is magical and imaginary story. The brazilian culture believed in lots of myths and fairytales.Brazilian culture favored myths more..They celebrated New Years every year.Some traditions included sports,parades…

When I was two years old, I informed my mother that, in my expert opinion, there was probably an Ankylosaurus in our backyard, and I needed to use one of our spare toothbrushes to excavate it. 14 years later, when a friend was unsure if I was concussed, she didn’t ask my name, but what I wanted to study when I grew up, because how quickly I answered, “avian paleobiology and the evolution of flight in theropods” was their best measure of my potential memory loss. All my life I have wanted to…

The legend I can relate to the most is "The Great Flood". I can relate to it the most because I'm religious and it comes from the Bible, and I also live in a corrupt time period. It is the story of a flood sent by God to wipe all the evil off the earth. He made the chose because he saw how evil and wicked mankind was becoming. He started to regret ever creating them. So, He decided to create a massive flood that would wipe everything off the face of the earth, just so there would be no more…

In contemporary times, the word “myth” signifies a misrepresentation of facts, rumors, or imaginary stories. According to William Bascom, “Myths are prose narratives which, in the society in which they are told, are considered to be truthful accounts of what happened in the remote past (9). In other words, a myth narrates important historical, religious, and social aspects of a period, but contains a famous cultural hero that mirrors that society. For example, the life and death of the Volscian…