... online learning folklore urban legends literature and morality What follows is a reflection on how storytelling – and the understanding of stories – is shaped by the environment in which those stories are told and heard. The impact of the reading environment on reader response and interpretation has...

...This chapter looks at ways in which Candyman (1992) offers a discourse on urban myth, and how it utilises actual urban legends such as ‘Bloody Mary’. Social scientists and folklorists have theorised that such urban legends construct and reinforce the worldview of the group within...

... Arendt Hannah Augustus Caesar World War II Norse mythology Native American legends Roman Collegium pontifex maximus Dante William Blake Caiaphas Way of the Cross Hermann Broch Virgil As long as you catch only what you throw yourself, all is mere skill and meaningless...

..., and the interpretations published by Maarten Jansen over the past three decades. This chapter explores how the narrative incorporates ancient Mexican legends known from colonial-period Aztec chronicles, especially those related to astronomical cycles. Chapter 2 also analyzes key iconographic images in the narrative...

... of the Five Elders, a Buddhist master named Jee Shin [Jisìhn Sìhmsī, 至善禪師]. There are many versions of this tale. In some, another layer of myth superscribes the legend with a Shaolin Temple in Southern China’s Fujian Province, instead of the original one in Henan Province. Despite the claims...

... Patrum, the Conferences of John Cassian, and the legends about Daniel of Scetis record many such encounters. However, holy men and women were not the only targets of pilgrimage. With the rise of the Egyptian cult of the martyrs, martyr shrines (martyria) also...

...0 09 10 2006 Fact may be stranger than fiction, but it is also harder to find. One of the most interesting things about the people connected with the life of Jesus— whether Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdalene, the disciple John, Pontius Pilate, or any- one else—is that numerous legends survive about...

...0 25 11 1993 Written evidence is scarce. It consists mostly of captions giving the names and epithets of the god. Bes seems to have featured in legends of Re, Horus, and Hathor, but these are never fully narrated; we must be content with scattered allusions to his mythical role in magical...

... surprising in that. But as soon as they get down to details, wanting to explain to people how music drama differs from lyric drama, and that from opera, why music drama must necessarily deal in symbols and legends, and such questions that initiate people into all these fine things, one no longer understands...

... numerous tales and legends featuring encounters between monks and spirit‐deities. And, while these tales are often too fantastic to be used as literal historical sources, the physical evidence provided in the next chapter reveals that they are one part of a larger historical process by which the Buddhists...

...Each of the groups who came to Britain, from the ancient Celts, Romans, to Germanic invaders such as Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, brought legends of heroes, myths of gods, rites of sacrifices, and other religious practices, belief systems particular to each culture, place, and era of origin...

...in 1891, the Czech poet Jaroslav Vrchlický published a collection of poems, Fresky a gobeliny (Frescoes and Tapestries). In the second volume, called Medieval Legends, is a poem entitled ‘Vĕčné evangelium’, or ‘Eternal Evangel’, to which...

...The cruceiro at Allariz (Ourense) The authority afforded to women in early modern Galicia was shaped and perpetuated through local folklore and legends. Over the centuries, Galicians formulated a wide variety of images of powerful women from Reina Loba, who according to legend, permitted...

...This chapter examines the ideas of weather, personal property, and identity by referencing a collection of memes and oral legends in line with the American car culture. It elaborates on the notion of weathering a storm, which triggers a striking continuity in ideas. Memes and legends draw upon...

...This chapter explores the mythical legends that are taken up in Terry Gilliam's Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and later in its stage adaptation, Spamalot (2005). The film consists of a series of comedic sketches based loosely on the Quest for the Holy...

... residing at the sanitarium, where 63,000 tuberculosis patients were said to have died. Strange stories and many other legends surrounding Waverly Hills have solidified its reputation as a mid-South epicenter for paranormal activity. In this chapter, the author recounts his experience at Waverly Hills...

...This chapter focuses on the Incunabula Papers and the legend-tripping performance that arose from their online circulation. It examines the two documents that comprise the Incunabula Papers as well as their exploration of supernatural legends and the mysticism of the mail art movement...

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...Eugene Powell, a storyteller with a large repertoire of jokes and legends is documented in his Greenville, Mississippi, home. Although Eugene's son Ernest learned many narratives from his father, he adapted them to his own more aggressive personality and the contexts of jails and bars. The tension...

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