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Giants in Denmark
-saxo grammaticus |
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| • Giants created the mountainous landscape but were killed by the flood of Noah |
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The Frau Holle Stone
-germany |
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Definition
| • Girl cried over husband and it softened the hard stone |
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Druical Circle and Monoliths
-scotland |
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| • Farmer tool special stone from its original place and disease and weird noise started to happen and didn’t stop until the stone was put back in its rightful place |
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Definition
• Village in a hollow rejects god and turns to idol worship
• Old priest tries to help them be good Christians but they mock him
• Priest discovered that they heavy rains are causing levis to break and tries to get villagers to fix them but they wont cause they’re feasting
• Rains came on Christmas eve and washed the church away and the water flooded the village |
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The Origins of Tis Lake
-denmark |
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Definition
• A troll lived in Kund but moved to Funen because the people became more religious and rang the church bells which annoyed him
• Troll met man from kund and gives him letter to take back to the church
• Man forgot about letter until he was at tis lake and opened it
• Letter contained whole lake which was intended to destroy the church at Kund |
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Origins of Wrekin
-england |
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Definition
• Evil giant want to flood mayor of shrewbury and its people
• Giant gets lost on his way there
• Giant meets cobbler who tricks him to think that it is very far away
• Giant puts down the dirt he was carrying and goes home
• Pile of dirt creates a mountain |
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Moses and El Khudr
-palestine |
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Definition
• Moses seeks enlightenment from Allah
• Allah tell him to meet servant who would instruct him
• Moses and servant go to kind rich man’s house for the night
• Servant wakes Moses up early to continue their journey and steals a silver wash basin
• The nest Shiek they visit is unkind and makes them sleep in a cave with scraps for dinner
• They did not wake early this time for the servant said they must not sneek away like theives. Servant thanks shiek and gives him the stolen basin
• Stop at river and stay with poor widow and her nephew who makes them breakfast
• Nephew show them to bridge and then servant drowns the nephew
• Servant explains why he did what he did to Moses was because of fate |
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St. George and the Dragon
palestine |
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Definition
• Dragon wont let people use water in he gets to eat a woman or child
• When people had no more women or children to feed him the princess was sent for sacrifice
• Before the dragon could eat her St. George came and slayed the dragon
• He was reward with princess and half the kingdom |
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Definition
• Countess of Scotland scolds beggar for having twins
• Beggar curses countess to have 365 children in one day and she does and they and her all die |
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The girl who transformed herself into a hare
-Germany |
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Definition
• Girl in herited a witches thong that transformed her into a hare when worn
• Girl teases huntsman as a hare because her pelt deflected bullets
• Huntsman shot hare with coffin and turned her back into a girl
• She promised never to use the power again if he helped her wound
• Visited her fiancé as a hare and he hit her and then broke up with her
• She was lame for the rest of her life |
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Term
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Definition
• A miner makes fun of witches riding on waalpurgis night
• At 9 on Walpurgis the miner was called to work because of promblem in the mine but witches swarmed him before he couold gte there
• One witch mounted him and didn’t get off til he was half dead
• Witches and the devil threatened him until he promised never to speak about them
• They mounted him again and finally left him to go home
• He told his stove and his wife overheard
• Niehbor was discovered as a witch and she was burned |
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The Werewolve of Jarnitz
-Germany |
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Definition
• Werewolve who can transform into many shaped steals sheep from shepard night after night
• Sheperd shoots werewolve but the bullets don’t harm him
• Shepard uses silver bullets
• Werewolve turns human and asked not to be shot
• Werewolve never steals from shepard again |
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The shroud
-Russia
-Vampires and Ghosts |
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Definition
• Lazy girl has a spinning party
• Spinners discuss who of them is the boldest and the lazy girl claims to not be scared of anything
• Spinners dar her to go past the graveyard to the church and take the holy picture from the door
• She agreed if they each spun her a distaff full and she did
• It was midnight and she had to take the picture back and her way threw the graveyard she sees a corse and takes its shroud
• The corse come to her house in the night asks for his shroud back bbut will not accept it until she walks it back to where she took
• He leaves when the crows caw
• Priest says girl should go to church so she does and there is a great whirlwind that makes her disappear and leaves only her back hair |
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The coffin lid
-Russia
-Vampires and Ghosts |
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Definition
• Moujik is carrying pots when his horse gets tired by graveyard
• He lays on a grave and it opens up and a corsp come out and takes coffin lid to door to runs to village
• Moujoke took coffin lid and corsp came back for it
• They bargain until corpse would tell him how to reviv the children the corse had killed
• Moujik wnet to the village and revived the boys but the villages accused him of the corspes crime so he told them what happened and they drove stake into corsp and moujik was rewarded |
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The Two Corpses
Russia
-Vampires and Ghosts |
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Definition
• mAn leaving on a jouney is chases by a corpes so he hids in a chapel but there is another corsp in the chapel
• the tow corpses fight over who will eat the man until the corws caw and the man is able to escape |
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The dog and the corpse
-Russia
-Vampires and Ghosts |
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Definition
• Moujok is hunting with his dog when night falls and he sees a corpse by a graveyard
• Moujik and dog run away and corps catches up with them, dog fights off corpse till crow call and man ran home
• The dog was very man at moujik for deserting him so the family had to kill a year later |
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The Soldier and the Vampire
Russia
-Vampires and Ghosts |
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Definition
• Soldier stops at friends house on the way home and stayed til night fall
• Friend warn him not to go but soldier says he he is not afraid of the warlock
• Soldier meet warlock and they go to a wedding, the warlock drink too much and gets angry and puts a curse on the the bride and groom
• warlock tells soldier how to save bride and groom and how to kill him and because the soldier knew this warlock tried to kill him, but soldier fought him off till crow calls
• soldier goes save the bride and groom and then burns the warlock and kills him |
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The specter Bridegroom
-England
-Vampires and Ghosts |
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Definition
• Man want to marry an uneducated woman but his parents will not consent
• Frank and nancy met secretly and made vows to be together forever
• nancy get pregnant and her parents want them to get married but franks father refuses and sends him away to sea
• 3 years later on Halloween nancy does incantation to bring frank back to her
• nancy sees frank and a white coffin
• franks ship wrecks and he tries to get home to marry nancy before he dies but doesn’t make it
• nancy goes off with the ghost of frank and a black smith tries to save her
• nancy gives her last wishes before she dies
• sailor explained that frank was mad at nancy for drawing his soul from his body
• nancy companions that cast the spell also dies soon after |
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Give Me My Teeth
-England
-Vampires and Ghosts |
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Definition
• A woman finds teeth and take them home with her
• At night someone calls out give me my teeth back
• Woman throws teeth out the window and the yelling stops |
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Term
The girl with Whites Hands
-D.L .Ashliman
-Family |
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Definition
• A fine lady leave her baby with the a young couple and never returns so the couple adopts the baby
• The baby was perfect except it had white hands |
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The Eagle and the owl
-Aesop
-family |
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Definition
• Owl and eagle swear not to eat each others chicks but eagles mistakenly eats owl chicks because they are not beautiful as she the owl described
• Moral: every mother thinks her babies are beautiful |
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The Mother, the child and the wolf
-Aesop
-family |
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Definition
• Mother threaten to throw child to wolf if he isn’t quiet
• Wolf waits for child to cy again
• Child cries again but instead the dogs are sent on him and he is killed by men
• Moral: enemies promises were made to be broken |
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Solomon and the two women
First book of Kings, chapter 3
-family |
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Definition
• Two women both had a baby on the same night, one dies and the other lived
• One women sold the others baby because her had died
• The king had no way to tell who was the true mother of the living son so he proposed to cut the baby in half and give each mother a piece
• The true mother offer her child to other women to save its live and the king knew she was the real mother |
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The Future Buddha as Judge
-The jataka Tales
-Family |
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Definition
• Woman and child go to future Buddha’s tank to wash
• A yaksha transformed into a woman and stole the child
• Mother chases yaksha into future Buddha’s judgment hall
• Buddha puts child on line and says women who can drag him over gets to keep him
• But the mother couldn’t do it because she didn’t want to hurt her child and began to cry
• Buddah knew the real mother would be tender and gave the woman her child back |
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The kings son
-Georgia
-family |
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Definition
• King had son that he sent to be nursed by smith’s wife
• Smiths wife switched her son with the kings
• King asked each son what they would do with the majestic forest and the true son said he would protect it and the pretender would make it into charcoal |
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Term
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Definition
• Husband and wife want a child so badly they would care if if was the size of thumb
• Wife gets sick and gives birth to a childe the size of a thumb
• One day thumbstick is helping his father by guiding the wagaon through the woods
• Two stangers pass by and think a wagon is being guided by only a voice so they follow thumbstick
• When the strangers see thumbstick they want to buy him to make money off of him
• Thumbstick tells his father to let him be sold so they can get money and he will come right back
• Thumbstick goes with the strangers and then escapes into a mousehole, but it was dark and did not want to walk alone so he offers to steal a rich preist gold and silver for the strangers if they will take him along
• Thumbstick shouts so the strangers will be caught and runs to sleep in the barn in the hay
• But in the morning when the cows wake up he is still sleeping and is eaten by a cow
• Thumbsticks shouts in the bell of the cow and the priest orders the cow to be killed because he thinks its evil
• As thumbstick was trying to escape from the cows stomach a wolf ate him
• Thumbstick tells the wolf to go his fathers house and eat all the food in the store room, the wolf gets so fat that he cant leave. Thumbstick starts screaming and his parents come down and cut him out of the wolf |
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The Old man who had a large family
-Denmark
-family |
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• Old man had 427 sons and when they were all grown went off to search for a man who had 427 daughter to marry his sons
• The father of the sons and the father of the daughter came to an agreement and the father of the sons left for his journey home
• On his way home his horse got very thirsty and drank a whole lake and many birds came to eat the fish at the bottom and the man got something in eye
• When the old man got home his sons sailed their boats around his eye for 7 days until they found a fish bone and took it out
• The men hired a carpenter to make them beds and the fish bone was so big he used it to posts for all the beds
• Old man took nap in one the bed and fox came and nawed at the bone, man threw his night cap at the fox which scared it and made it just into the old mans beard
• The sons cut up the old mans beard for 7 days until they found the fox which had given birth to 7 pups
• They finally had the wedding which lasted 427 days |
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The tortoise that refused to leave home
-the Jataka Cells
-Home and Nation |
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Definition
• There was a lake and a river that when the waters were high were one and when the water were low were 2
• All the animal knew to leave when the water dried up but one tortoise did want to leave his home so he buried himself in the mud
• Bodhistta came one day to gather clay and broke the tortoise’s shell with his spade and the tortoise died
• Bodhistta told all the villages of the totoise’s story and taught them not to hold on to material things |
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The dog that went abroad
-the Panchatantra
-home and Nation |
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| • A dog left his home due to famine, he found another house where they was much to eat, but visous dogs bit him and he decided it was better to be at home even during a famine |
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The town Mouse and the Country Mouse
-Aesop
-Home and Nation |
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Definition
• Town mouse visited country mouse
• Town mouse tells country mouse to come back with him town because theres better food
• Country mouse mouse decides it better to eat bean and bacon in peace then cakes and ale in fear |
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The Town Mouse and the Field Mouse
-Romania
-Home and Nation |
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Definition
• Town mouse meets field mouse
• Field mouse has a nice store of food but town mouse say her food is better so they go to the towns mouses house
• Town mouse allows field mouse to be eaten by a cat to that she can steal all the town mouses food |
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The dog and the Wolf
-aesop
-Home and Nation |
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Definition
• Dog is fed but chained up
• Wolf is free but hungry
• Moral: better to starve free than be a fat slave |
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The Bat, the Birds, and the Beast
-Aesop
-Home and Nation |
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Definition
• Bat didn’t know if he was a bird or a beast
• Moral: he that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends |
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Man who became rich through a dream
-1001 nights
-Home and Nation |
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Definition
• Man from Baghdad was told in a dream to go to Cairo to find his fortune, while there he was beaten and thrown in jail
• Chief of police said he also had a dream which told of fortune buried under house in Baghdad but that he didn’t believe in dream
• Man from Baghdad find the fortune buried in his own garden |
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Man who became rich through a dream
1001 nights
-Home and Nation |
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Definition
• Man from Baghdad was told in a dream to go to Cairo to find his fortune, while there he was beaten and thrown in jail
• Chief of police said he also had a dream which told of fortune buried under house in Baghdad but that he didn’t believe in dream
• Man from Baghdad find the fortune buried in his own garden |
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The peddler of Swaffham
-England
Home and Nation |
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Definition
• Peddler dream 3 times that if he went to London bridge he would be told great news so he went and stood on the bridge for 3 days until a shopkeeper asked why he was there and the peddler told the shopkeeper about the dream
• Shopkeeper said he had a dream about fortune behind peddlers house but was silly enough to look for it
• Peddler went home and found the his treasure there |
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The two travelers and the farmer
-North America
-Home and Nation |
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• Famer told traveler that people from town were bad like the people from his own town
• But farmer told 2nd travel that people from town are nice like the people from his own town |
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The Greedy Monkey
-India
-Rules for Living |
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| • Monkey wanted wheat but couldn’t have it all so he took none |
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The dog and the reflection
-Aesop
-Rules for Living
-fable |
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| • Dog was greedy and wanted the meat he saw in his reflection so he dropped the meat he already had into the water |
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The fox and the Crow
-Aesop
-Rules for Living
-fable |
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Definition
• Crow dropped cheese because the fox flattered him
• Moral: do not trust flatters |
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The Fox and the Grapes
-Aesop
-Rules for Living
Fable |
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| • Fox could not reach grapes so he decided that they were sour anyway |
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The Jackal and the fleas
-India
-Rules for Living |
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| • Jackal covered in fleas goes into the water with a piece of wood and makes the fleas crawl on the wood instead of him |
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The Fox and the Fleas
-Scotland
-Rules for Living |
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| • Fox covered in fleas goes into the water with a piece of wool and makes the fleas crawl on the wool instead of him |
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The Lion and the Mouse
-Aesop
-Rules for Living
-Fable |
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Definition
• Lion decided not to kill mouse because mouse told him he might be of use one day
• Lion is caught in trap and mouse gnaws away the rope |
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The Three Little Pigs
England
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
• Wolf blew down Straw house, stick house but could blow down brick house
• 3rd pig gets turnips and before the wolf can, but as he is getting the apple the wolf comes so he throws one very far away and runs home
• pig goes to the fairy before the wolf and buys and butter churn and rolls it down the hill at him and scares the wolf
• wolf is mad and tries to climb down the chiney to eat the pig, but the pig puts pot of water and fire and boils the wolf for dinner and eats him |
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Androcles and the Lion
Joeseph Jacobs
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
• Androcles the slaves ecapes and hide in the forest where he meets a wounded lion.
• He takes the thorn out of the lions paw and the lion brings him food in return
• Soldier found the slaves and sentenced hi to death for fleeing
• Slaves in thrown in the lion pit but is not harmed because it is the nice lion from the forest
• Empeor was surpised by the events and asked slave to explain and the slave and lion were both freed |
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Of the remembrance of benefits
-Gesta Romanorum
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
• Knight takes thorn from lions paw
• King capture lion for many year
• Knight flees from king into the forest and is captured and fed the lion
• Lion wont eat knight because they are friends, so king decide to spare him also |
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The King the Falcon and the drinking cup
-bidpai
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
• King had pet falcon which he loved dearly
• King chased deer while hunting and got lost
• Was thirsty, found stream and filled his cup but his falcon flew by and spilled it twice, so the king killed it
• King later found that the water was poisoned |
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The Talkative Tortoise
-The Jataka Tales
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
-future buddah was born and grew up to become to king's advisor
-buddah tryed to make king less talkative
-two ducks tell talkitive tourtouise to keep his mouth shut so they take him to their house ducks put stick in his mouth and each take end
-but tortoise talked and fell in the kings court and split in two
-buddah explained to the king that the tortoise died because he was to talkative |
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The Tortoise and the Hare
-Aesop
-Rules for Living
-Fable |
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Definition
-Hare boasted of his speed and challenged the other animal to a race of which the tortoise accepted
-hare took a nap in the middle of race
tortoise got ahead and won
-Moral:Plodding wins the race |
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The Shepherd who called Wolf
Aesop
-Rules for Living
-fable |
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Definition
| - Moral: A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth |
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The Frogs Desiring A King
Aesop
-Rules for Living
-fable |
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Definition
-happy frogs wanted a king
-frogs asked Jove for king, Jove came them Log for a King
-Frogs told Jove they wanted a real king, so he gave them a stork as king
-Stork ate the frogs
-Moral: better no rule than cruel rule |
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The Frog and the Farrier
-Aesop
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
| -Farrier was shoeing arab horse, frog came and asked to be shoed also |
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The Frog and the Ox
Aesop
-Rules for Living |
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frog son asked frog father what the horned creature was
father told son the creature was ox and that he could make himself as big as the ox
frog blew up trying to make himself as big as the ox
Moral: Self conceit can lead to self detruction |
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The Gold Giving Snake
-The Panchatantra
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
-man is farming but has no harvest, so pays homage to the snake goddess of the field
-farmer gave the snake milk and received gold in return day after day
-one day farmer asked his son to give the milk to the snake, son decided to kill snake and take all the gold at once, but instead the snake killed the son
-snake no longer gave gold to the farmer |
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Term
of good advice
-Gesta Romanorum
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
-knight marries beautiful but unwise woman
-knight becomes poor and doesn't know what to do
-snake tells his that if he bring him milk everyday he will make him rich
-knight had beautiful son and become rich
-wife told knight to kill snake to get all the riches at once
-instead their son dies and they lose all their riches
-knight tries to apologize to snake but snake refuses |
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The miserly moslem Priest and his wife
-India
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
Moslem Priest charged high fees for his services but told the faithful to give as much as they can
Priest's wife prepared many expensive meals for the poor and one day the preist found out and was very angry that his wife spent his money of the poor
-presit dyed because he was sicken by how much money his wife was giving to the poor
-presit wakes up at his funeral becuase his wife was giving away his posesions and lived for some time after
wife still gave to the poor |
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Hans Dumb
-Grimms
-Rules for Living |
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Definition
-King had daughter who had a baby and the father was unknown
-in church child was given lemon and who ever he handed it to would be his father but he handed it to Hans Dumb
King sent the 3 of them off to sea and Hans revealed that all his wishes come true and that he had wished for her to have a baby
Hans wished them in great ship and for a castle and to be a smart prince. then he married the princess
-daughter later found her father and they lived happily ever after |
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Term
Jephthah and his daughter
-Book of Judges, chapter 11
-Children at Risk (sacrifice)
-unquestioned patriarchal obedience |
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Definition
| One of the judges in ancient Israel. According to the Book of Judges, he was the son of a Gileadite and a prostitute. After being cast out by his father's legitimate sons, he joined a band of brigands. When the Gileadites were oppressed by an Ammonite army, they asked Jephtha to aid them. He led them to victory, having first promised God a sacrifice of whatever he first saw when he left his house; his first sight happened to be his daughter. His significance in the Book of Judges is as an exemplar of Israel's fidelity to God. |
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The Children of Hamelm
-Germany
-Children at Risk (sacrifice) |
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Definition
-Mysterious man appeared in hameln called the pied piper and promised to kill all the rats in the city.
-he played his pipe and all the rats followed him into the river and drowned, but then the townspeople refused to pay him for his work
-so he played his pipe again and this time all the children followed him to the mountains.
-the street the pied piper walked down is now called the quiet street |
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Term
King Aistulf
-Grimms
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide) |
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Definition
| the kings mother had 5 babies at once and his father only allowed the one that grapped his spear to live and aistulf is the one that grabbed the spear |
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the abandoned child
-Iceland
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide |
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Definition
woman abandones her baby and later wants to go to a celebration but has no nice clothes
-while milking the cows she hears her child's vioce and goes insane |
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the snow child
-Europe
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide |
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Definition
seaman came home from year long voyage to find his wife was preganat
-wife said she fell into snowbank and gave birth to snow child who had no color
-later the seaman took his son to the market in the sumer and he melted |
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Hansel and Gretel
-Grimms
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide)
-cautionary tale for mothers who abandon children
-consequences of father abdication of power |
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Definition
hansel heard his parents plan to abandon him and gretel in the woods because they had no food and so he filled his pockets with pebels so that he could leave a trail back to their house that would shine in the moon and so they made it home the next day
- again his mother plannned to abandon them, but this time the door was locked and he could not gather pebles, so made a trail of breadcrumbs instead but the bird ate it up and they got lost
-they walked for 3 days until they found a house made of bread and began to eat it.
a witch lived in the house and lured hansel and gretel in so she could eat them
- the witch locked hansel in a cage and made gretel feed him to fatten him up
-gretel had to make the bread and put the fire on for the witch eat hansel
gretel prayed for god to save them and so god told her the witches plan to lock gretel in the oven and so gretel was able to trick the witch and lock her in the oven
hansel and gretel stole the witches riches and found there way home
-their father was rich and their mother had died |
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Little Thumb
-CHarles Perrault
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide |
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Definition
woodcutter and his wife had 7 boys all between the ages of 7 and 10. the youngest was the size of a thumb and was quiet and sickly
-little thumb was blamed for everything though he was the smartest of all his brothers
-great famine came and woodcutter planned to abandon his children in the woods, but little thumb overheard him and gathered pebbles
-little thumb led his brothers home by following the trail of pebble he had made
meanwhile the lord of the mannor sent the parents 10 crowns for a debt he owed them. mother went to buy meat and was very sad that she didnt have her sons
-sons arrive home and she feeds and cleans them and loved peter her oldest son the best because he had red hair like her
-they became poor again and took their sons deeper into the woods but little thumb could not gather pebble because the door was locked
-he made a trail of bread crumbs but the birds ate it and they got lost
little thumb climbed a tree and followed a light in the distance to a house
-woman told them an ogre who eat children lives at that house
-ogre's wife let them in and tried to hide them from ogre
-orge found the children and told wife to fatten them up for tomorow's meal
-wife put them to bed with her seven ogre daughters. little thumb switched the daughter crowns with his brothers sleeping caps to treat the ogre
-ogre get up and killed all of daughter think they are the boys
orge put in his seven league boots and chased after the boys
-boys hide in rock, ogre got tired and took nap on that rock, boys run home while ogre is asleep except for little thumb who steal the ogre's magic boots
little thumb goes back to orgres and tell his wife the he has been captured and the thieves want everything they have in exchange for the ogre's life
-little thumb used the boots to make money by bringing news from far distances
little thumb made his whole family very rich by either robbing the ogre or being a messenger, no one can agree |
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The 12 Brothers
-Grimms
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide |
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Definition
king had 12 sons and was expected another, if baby was girl he would kill his sons if baby was boy he would let them live
queen warned her sons to hide in the forest, white flag meant they could come home, red flag meant they had to flee
there mother raised a reg flag and vowed to they vowed to kill every girl they met
-young daughter discovered she had brohters and went to the cave where they lived and agreed to serve them if they did not kill her
-then they found out that she was thier sister and they were happy theta they didnt kill her
-one day sister picked 12 white lilies and a woman appeared and said the flowers were her 12 brothers who had now been transformed into raven and are lost forever
woman said only way to bring them back was to not speak for 12 years so she planned to sit in a tree and spun for 12 years
king found her and asked to marry her which she did
-but the kings mother tricked the king into sentencing his new wife to death
she was standing in the fire when the last minute of the 12 year passed and he brothers came back ans saved her and was able to explain everything to the king
the evil "stepmother" was killed in a barrel of hot oil and poisonous snakes
everyone else lived happily ever after |
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little snow white
-Grimms
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide)
-sexual competition between daughter and mother figure |
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in mid winter a beautiful queen pricked her finger with a spinning needle and 3 drops of blood fell
-queen thought the blood, ebony and snow was pretty together and wanted a daughter that looked like that, so she did and called her little snow white
-queen had mirror that told her she was the fairest in the land, but when snow white was 7 the mirror said that she was prettiest and then the queen hated her
-queen sent huntsman into the woods to kill snow white and bring back her lungs and liver, but snow white begged for her life so the huntsman killed a boar instead
snow white came to the house of the 7 dwarfs she took a nap on thier bed and the dwarf found her when they came home from work
-snow white told the dwarf what had happened to her and they let her stay
-meanwhile the mirror told the queen that she was not the fairest in the land
-queen dressed as peddleer and snow white let her in so she could buy a bodice, but the queen laced her bodice so tight that she could not breath
-when the dwarves came home they cut her bodice and saved her
-again the mirror told the queen that she was not the fairest in the land, so she went back and combed snow whites hair with poisoned comb, but again the dwarfs saved her
-the queen then poisoned her with an apple this time and the mirror said the queen was the fairest in the land
-the dwarves could not bring her back to life so they layed her a glass coffin and kept watch over her
one day prince came and asked to have snow white so they gave her to him
-he took her to his castle and watch over her all day, he was sad when he had to leave her so he made his servant carry her coffin around with him. one servant got mad and hit her in the back and the piece of poisoned apple came out of her throat and she came back to life
at the princes and snow whites wedding the evil mother had to put on hot iron shoes and dance until she dies |
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The magic fiddle
-INdia
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide
-same sex competition |
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seven brothers were married but their wive did not cook for them and instead the sister did, but the wives were jealous and wanted to cook for their husband.
-they asked the bonga to dry up the sister water to delay her. the sister drowned and the bonga made her into a bonga too and carried her off
she reappeared as bamboo which a jogi cut down to make into a fiddle.
the fiddle had a nice sound and made the jogi lots of money as a beggar
when the brothers heard the sound of the fiddle they began to cry and offered to buy it but the jogi refused
jogi went to the village chief who got him drunk and stole his fiddle
bonga girl came out of the fiddle to make the family dinner when they weren;t home.
-cheif wanted to see who it was so he waited and caught her and they became friends
-her brothers come over one day and she yells at them for not saving her |
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The Singing Bone
-Grimms
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide
-same sex competition |
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wild boar was reeking havoc so he promised his daughter to anyone who could kill it
-3 brothers went out to win the princess
-2 older brothers went together and the youngest by himself
old man gave the young one a lance with which he was able to kill the boar
other brother killed the younest and teh oldest married the princess.
one day a sheperd saw a bone beneath the bridge where the brother was burried
-the sheperd made the bone into a mouth piece and it told him how he was murdered and the sheperd told the king
the two wicked brothers were thrown to the water and the other brother was given proper burial |
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Binnorie
-England
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide
-Same sex competition |
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king had 2 daughets, sir willaim came and wooed the oldest and the wooed the younger. then the older one hated the younger one and planned to kill her
-older sister pushed younger sister in the stream, the miller and his daughter pulled her out but she was dead
later the miller made a harp from her breast bone and went to the castle of the king and the harp sang of she had been killed by her sister and then the harp broke |
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The King and his Daughter
-India
-Children at Risk (abandonment and infanticide)
-same sex competition |
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kings youngest daughter was sent into the forest because she said she loved her father as salt and not as sugar
-in the wood she met a prince who she married
king came to meet with the prince and had something salty for dinner for dinner and understood what the princess met |
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Brewery of Eggshells
-Wales
-Changeling |
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woman left her twins to visit a niehbor and after she came back her children no longer grew so she went to see a wiseman to advise her
wise man told her to clear out engs egg and boil pottage in it and take it to the door to give to the reapers for dinner
-her children spoke of things beyond thier understanding so she threw them in the river and the goblin left them and they were normal |
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The Woman who had no shadow
-Scandinavia
-Miracle |
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-pastors wife was afriad to have kids so she went to a witch who gave her 7 stones to throw in the well
-pastor noticed wife had no shadow and made her confess her sins and then send her away
wife came back to house as old begger and died during the night
-flowers growing on the roof in the morning |
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the flourishing staff
-Jewsih
Miracle |
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- man seeks forgiveness for leaving the faith but is refused by rabo
-rabi's staff grows leaves as a sign that he should be forgiven
man said said he stopped jewish persecution and rabi said his good deeds caused a miracle |
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Testimony of the dead
- Jewish
-Miracles |
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enemies of jews kidnapped and killed the governors sons and blamed it on the jews so the governor would hate them
-governor finds his sons body in synogue and blames jews
-gold answers rabbi prayers and revielves the true killer to him
-boy woke and told his father who the murders were and then died again |
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Story of the grateful dead
-Jewish
-MIracles |
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old mans wants son to learn divine law so he locks him in apartment with teacher
-master and pupil studied alone for 10 years and were given everything they wanted
-old man didnt want his riches to go to waste so he taught his son the ways of commerce
Father dies and son used riches to travel the world, stops in turkey
Son is told story of iron coffin:
-coffin contained financial advisor to the sultan
-enemies told sultan that advisor had betrayed him
-sultan put advisor in iron coffin and wouldnt allow him a proper burial until his debts had been paid
-rich son offered to pay advisor debts and asked all the people of the town to attend the funeral
-son left on boat and was shipwrecked
-son rode eagle home to Jerusalem
-ghost of banker assure son reward in next life |
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The Golem
-European Jewsih
-Miracle
-referances homunculus, man like creature created by man |
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Definition
Pious has son on first day of passover
-Christians accuse jews of ritual murders
-son became great scholar and was determined to clear the accusations
-son had vision that told him to sculpt human from clay
-each man circles clay figures 7 time riciting differant formulas and figure comes to life
-clay man could do everything but talk and was indestructible
-golem perfomred many good deeds to clear accusation of the jews |
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-woman spinner didn't pay reverence to mother friday
-she fell asleep and mother friday stuffed dust in her eyes
-spinner asked for forgiven and mother friday took the dust out |
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frau Holle and the Distaff
-Germany
-MIracle |
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2 orphan girls spin to provide for themsleves, one was industrious and one was lazy
-frau halle gave indurtious girl a wheel that spun gold and gave industrious girl chopped straw in her chest |
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Frau Holle and the Peasant
-Germany
-MIracles |
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peasant fixes frau holle's carrage
-frau tells him to take shaving as reward but he only takes a few
shaving turn to gold |
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Frau Holle
-Grimms
-Didactic Function
-Miracles |
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Definition
widow has pretty industrious daughter and ugly lazy daughter but likes pretty one better
-pretty girl fall into well, walk thru meadow, takes bread out of oven, shakes apples from tree, does house work for Frau Holle, gets homesick and Frau takes her home
-Frau covers her in gold and she is well recived by her family
-widow makes ugly daughter jump into well, but she didn't perform well so Frau covered her in pitch for the rest of her life |
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Prilling and Prualing are Dead
Germany
-Fairies |
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Servant is hauling manure when he hears his name called
-goes home and says prilling and prauling are dead and hears groaining in the cellar
finds pewter mug in the celler |
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Mally Dixon
England
-fairies |
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Definition
| man meets talking cat that tells him to tell his wife that Mally dixon is dead. he does and she says "is she?" and disappears forever |
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The Demon and the Tree
Jewsih
-Demons |
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Definition
demons lives under farmers tree, farmer wanted to cut down tree
-demon gave farmer 3 golden dinars a day not to cut down the tree
-farmers 2 sons died and he lost all his slaves
-decided tree caused all his sins and went to cut it down but demon threaten him
-farmer went to surpreme court and they told him to sell all his possession and cut down the tree
farmer resisted temptation and cut down the tree
farmer had goo harvest and found treasure where tree used to be |
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water Demon
-Scotland
-demons |
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demons live in water and it is dangerous to bath there
-servants throw chest plate in deep pool
-diver goes to retrieve plates and is threaten by demon but he disobeys him and demon tears out his heart and lungs |
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Wod the wild huntsman
-Germany
-DEmons |
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huntsman makes travelrs stay in the middle of the apth through the woods
wod challengers drunk man to pulling contest and drunk man wins by tieing his end to a tree
-wod rewards traveler with meat he must put in his boot
-when he gets home the meat has turned to gold |
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The Night huntsman
-Germany
-Demons |
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Definition
mill worker in curious about huntsman so he goes outside to see him
-worker gets leg thrown at hi and burried it under the mill platform |
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Two Eyes too many
Germany
-Demons |
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Definition
widow cook deleious meal every sunday while her servants are at church
-one servant hid to see how she did it and discovered that the devil was helping her and told everyone at dinner
-devil came back and strangled the widow and flew away with her |
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The witch of treva
-England |
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the witches husband didnt beleif she was a witch a witch
-husband came home and there was no dinner and threatened to kill her if she didnt make him food
-witch made him dinner and he believed and feared her
-witch dies and men carry her coffin but drop it when rabbit , other men carry it but drop it again when they see puss on the coffin, men picked it back and made it to the church
-have turned into black figure and disappeared |
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Changeling is beaten with a Switch
-Grimms
-Legend |
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Definition
-nobleman has large crop of hay every summer which his servants harvest for him
-new mother was forced to work a week after giving birth, left child alone in field
-when she returned to her baby, it was not her baby
-woman told noble men about problem and he tell her to beat the changeling with switch
-devil came back and replaced the childern |
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| man like create created my man, no soul, no language |
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| desend from local/minor gods |
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| appear as other animals mostly cats |
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-undead being who takes the blood of humans for sustenance
-derived from eastern european folklore (transylvania and bulgaria)
-Alexander afanasyev wrote down many vampire stories
-between fairytale and legend |
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| wrote now many vampire stories |
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| Socio-Historic Reasons for Vampire Lore |
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Bubominc plague causes peopl to be buried before they were dead
people did understand dicomposition
-christian took longer to spread in the east were vampire stories orginated |
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preserve german culture
stories were said to be the same as the original tellers
broken down myth/shattered jewel theory
monogenisis |
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-Straparola
-Basile
-Perrault
-Percy
-MacPherson
-Herder |
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-From France
-Orginated puss-in-boots and cinderellas fairy godmother
-wrote tales to amuse daughter of aristocrats |
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-England
-published ancient english poetry to immediate acclaim |
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-England
-published "Poems of Ossian" which he made up himself
-enormous cultural force |
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published "Fragments on the new German Literature
idea of Volkspoisie |
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-connection between lower class and orginal, organic vitality
missing from the middle class and other, non-folkloric literature
-cultural identity |
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-used animal character to tell people how to live in peace
-choice of animals was political and allowed him to speak criticaly about the king |
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used animal character to tell people how to live in peace
choice of animal was political, allowed him critized king louis xiv |
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| basis of competition is scant resources |
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Term
| Profile of Changeling Child |
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Definition
-unusual size
-unusual cries
-small head
-these characteristics are now associated with down syndrome and related conditions
-greedy consumption of food
-unusual slanting or bulging eyes |
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Definition
-teach explicit lesson
-nonhuman characters with human characteristics
-short
-many written by aesop
-situations from daily life |
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-joke
-often address social taboos |
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-has hero and villian
addres universal foundational issues, such as why does the sun shine |
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removes listener from everyday reality through certian structures such as once upon a time and hapily ever after
-largest group of indo-european folktales |
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-a story which is believed by the teller
-very specific details |
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| a legend which is still believed |
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| stories that moves with its people |
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-supernatural beings
-overlapping beleif systems
explanation of landscape features and forces of nature
-the oldest tales are creation myths
-greek and christian traditions |
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based on religious systems
function to promote the faith of that system
teach moral principles |
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| all folktales come from a common source or each individual folktale has its own original source |
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| a folktale can have many sources |
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| beleived all tales come from india except for fable |
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| oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital |
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wilhem and Jalcob
published "children's and household tales in 1812 to 1815, 9 editions |
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-has author
-is written
-stable
-author to reader realtionship |
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-transmitted through informal means by end users
-arises and changes and no one knows why
-oral
-teller to listener relationship |
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| adapts some of the characteristic of literature into the folktale |
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-Entertainment
-Maintain order
education/explain
-address fears/taboos
provide fantasy escape/solution |
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martyr in Palestine, 300AD
-ideals of chivalry |
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-usually irrevocable
-victim must appeal to higher power
-curses are found in spinning tales |
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-traditional female task
-tedious and time consuming
-spinning associated with good character
-good spinner gets good husbands
-show importance of female work in the household |
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| smallest narrative element within a tradition |
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| classified 2500 tales into 5 types |
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