Mythology and Folklore

Woman Goblin stealing a child and placing a  goblin baby in place of it. Found from Changeling Tale For my second and probably last reading post, I decided to again do it over the Celtic fairy tales. I have come to enjoy them quite a bit. In fact if I am ever in the mood for a fun read in-between studying I would 10 out of 10 look for a tale of the same genera and would recommend it to anyone else as well. The story I am posting over is "Brewery of Eggshells". Although it was a good story, I found that here were a lot of points that could be elaborated on or lengthened to make the story better. To start I would go into more detail about why the mother would not want to leave her kids alone. Was there a bad experience that had happened in the past? I would then talk about why the goblins were in town on that particular day. Had they needed to come steal some children for a particular reason? This leads me to the question of why would they trade out their children for...

The Leprechaun from the horror movie " Leprechaun " For the last week I will most likely be doing reading in this class I chose to do my first bit of reading over Celtic tales. I knew a little about them from reading short stories by myself in the past and enjoyed many aspects of them. I am going to do my part A reading post over one of my favorite stories I read from the section, "The Field of Boliauns". In this story there is a man that happens upon a Leprechaun. Now Leprechaun's are very shifty and resilient creatures so the man knew that he could not take his eyes off of him or else he would be gone, never to see the little man again. The Leprechaun tried to trick the man to making him turn around and lose sight of him so he could get away, out of his sight. These efforts surprisingly didn't work. The man then finally in a rage picked the little man up and made him tell him where his gold was stashed. Upon arriving to the place where it was hid, the ...

I love using Cheeseburger to create different memes and such. I always love seeing the different cat post that Laura has up on the class blog for the day. I have made one above as you can see that I think adds a little pun to the Cheeseburger picture. If you want to make your own nifty picture go to the website here !

I chose to do an extra credit reading assignment this week because I really wanted to read more on the Native American section in the Untextbook, so I figured I might as well write up a little blog post about my favorite story I came across. I really enjoyed the story "Coyote and Grizzly" from the Pacific Northwest region. It was about a very mean grizzly bear that was so mean and rotten that he one day went down and began eating Indians. He ate so many that he made himself ill and had to seek help from the medicine man, Coyote. Coyote ended up helping the bear but found out what made him sick and told on him. The Grizzly became so enraged that he tried to kill the Coyote. Coyote was very cunning however and and ended up tricking the bear and killing it. I really liked this story because it showed how cunning and smart the Coyote is, that he could outwit and out battle the toughest of animals. I think that this story would be a great incorporation into my storybook. I woul...

An African figure of a man using a bow and arrow. A long time ago there lived two different tribes in Africa. There located fairly close to one another but were separated by a large river. For many decades the two had been at war with each other. Each tribe hated the other more than anything in the world. This all changed one day when the prince of the Gondula tribe, known by many around to be some of the most ferocious warriors, caught a glimpse of a daughter of the rival tribe the Halla's. The Halla's were well knows throughout the continent as a kind people, always willing to trade and help, besides with the Gondula that is. One the prince had seen the young girl he new he had to have her. The king was all to happy for this arrangement hoping that it would bring peace to the two tribes. The king was right and once the two were wed there was a time of peace and tranquility between the two tribes. The king's daughter remarkably was fine with the arranged marriage and...

Inuit Family Telling Stories and Cooking For my second reading this week I chose to continue on reading in the Inuit section of the unit. I was very fond of the story "The Wife Who Lied". I think that it had a very powerful meaning behind it. While reading the story I found myself thinking that I could actually see the Inuit elders talking telling this to the young peoples of their community. This would instill in them that you should never lie, for the consequences could be dire.  Although I loved the story as a whole and the meaning behind it, I would have to change some things up myself if i retold it. For instance, I would have to give greater background detail about how the young woman found herself to be wed to a different tribe. Also, I would continue to elaborate about how great the young man or chief that took her to be his bride was to her. This would great more of a betrayal and more of a reason for the members of the trade be willing to work so hard to get r...