What is folklore? What is folklore? Folklore (or lore) consists of legends‚ music‚ oral history‚ proverbs‚ jokes‚ popular beliefs‚ fairy tales‚ stories‚ tall tales‚ and customs that are the traditions of a culture‚ subculture‚ or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristic‚ and people who study folklore are sometimes referred to as "folklorists". Folklore can be
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English Folklore Required literature: Tales of the British Isles‚ English or Scottish Popular Ballads‚ Mother Goose Rhymes‚ On Fairy Tales (by J.R.R. Tolkien) Видение креста; Genesis B / Древнеанглийская поэзия. М.‚ 1982. Сс. 27-28‚ 81-90. Brodey K.‚ Malgaretti F. Focus on English and American Literature. M.‚ 2003. Pp.7-10‚ 31-32. Supplementary literature: Драйден Дж. О драматической поэзии. Мэлори Т. Смерть Артура. Скотт В. Вводные замечания о народной поэзии…(предисловие) // Собр. соч. в
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Grayson Jackson Who’s Folklore Is It Anyway? I really feel that folklore in its raw form is a history of human kind and humanity in its essence. It has the potential to explain cultures like no other individual can. The open the mind to rituals and paths of thinking that normally wouldn’t be possible unless you was actually living in their specific environment. It also exposes the some of the prejudices that exist among humankind. When people thrive in ignorance towards another set of individuals
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Folktales‚ Folk Bodies There is little true sociological work done on folklore‚ and even less done on how folklore can be used to complicate (post)colonial narratives. There is however an extensive set of literature existing in the murkily identified field of folklore studies‚ which at times has an anthropological lean‚ but can none the less be taken up in a sociological framework. It is in this fringe field that ideas around colonialism and indigenous/minority bodies are contested‚ inverted and
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10 Creatures in Scandinavian Folklore REBECCA WINTHER-SØRENSEN OCTOBER 15‚ 2012 Check out our new companion site: http://knowledgenuts.com The Scandinavian Folklore consists of a huge variety of creatures‚ good or evil‚ which have frightened people for centuries. They were often meant to scare children‚ but even today they are essential and important to the modern northern society. In the 1890s‚ something changed in the way common Scandinavians saw themselves and their culture. They looked back
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The Anatomy of Folklore Groups in Your Common Hospital Folklore is all around us‚ although many of us don’t recognize it. It is vast‚ from the traditions we participate in‚ to the superstitions we utilize. Why do we do the things we do? Is it because we were raised that way? Did we pick it up at school‚ or from a friend? People are constantly processing and employing information into their everyday actions from the environment around them. Many of the actions we display come from the groups
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Le Loupgarou” and “Ol Higue” Folklore exists in many cultures throughout the world. Folklore in the form of tales‚ myths and legends is passed from generation to generation through the oral tradition. Folklore in the Caribbean has been drawn from the rich and diverse backgrounds of our ancestors who came from various parts of the world. Our ancestors brought with them their language‚ culture‚ religious beliefs and practices‚ and their tradition of storytelling. The tales of demons‚ ghosts‚ zombies
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What is Folklore? This is the question posed in the initial chapter of the book The Study of American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand. There are many ways to define exactly what Folklore is‚ but it can be described as unrecorded traditions of people; the content and the manner of communication. Analyzing records and traditions allow anthropologists a glimpse into the common life of the human mind separate from all of the formal records of a people. This area of study wasn’t legitimate or organized
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Another frightening figure in Scandinavian folklore are the Mylingen (The Myling). In Sweden‚ infanticide was a fairly common crime amongst poor mothers. The reasoning behind it was either the family was not wealthy enough to afford feeding another child‚ or the mother had conceived the baby outside a marriage. Adultery was frowned upon and ruined many lives‚ and drove people to take extreme measures such as murdering their own infant. During this time‚ the most common places that Mylings were abandoned
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Name: K.Sriharideep Shiv Nadar University - Dadri Monsoon 2014 ENG397 - Assignment 2 Marks: 25 Submit Answers by: Oct 22‚ 2014. Instructions: 1. Adhere to the word-limits indicated. 2. Do not plagiarize. Use quotation marks to indicate language that is not your own. Copying passages from others or from the internet will result in a zero score for the entire paper. Questions: 1. Wordsworth says: “to produce or enlarge this capability is one of the best services in which‚ at
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