Paige's Mythology and Folklore Blog

What is Myth? A lot of the myths are very old and can all be told in different ways and often has many different forms. Many myths can be understand and told in many different ways. Many of these myths do not have notable authors and no one knows who originated them. Generations and generations of people listen to these myths and take them very seriously. A myth is a story that is significant and it has staying power, they have survived centuries. Myths have many different versions, there are hero stories, stories about Gods, and religious myths. Tells the story of Kore and how she was kidnapped by her father's brother. The story uses trickery to keep Kore and it explains how Winter came into play. Theories of Myth Mythology is the study of myths. When looking back on Homer and Plato, they often said these myths were all lies and were stories to create reasoning behind situations they could not understand. Early mythologists studied myths and saw their truth to them. Many ...

The Pemmican Man and Unktomi By: Marie McLaughlin Begins with setting introduces main character describes the attire of the main character provides description of clothing and what he holds introduces protagonist fighting ensues explains why the fight is happening the spiders are getting what they want by getting the meat the man is trying to survive the man ends up tricking the spider and his family the spider ensues to find the man the man tricks the spider again hoping to live and keep his meat the spiders were tricked Unktomi was now killed and eaten himself Unktomi

The Boy and the Turtles By: Marie McLaughlin introduces character  introduces characters premise for story introduces problem for character describes setting of the hunt description of his actions problem occurs new characters are introduced description of actions with his scared emotions description of the boys exhaustion grandma is introduced the boy explains his actions and story ended with name of the lake Turtles basking by the lake.