Essays on Folklore

The Men in Black, a mysterious group, is often speculated to be either government-employed individuals responsible for concealing information on extra terrestrials, actual aliens, or simply a product of the imagination of mentally unstable people. Although we cannot definitively answer this question, we will provide you with relevant information to form your own opinion. The…

Folktales can help children develop strong reading skills, study other cultures, show positive character traits, and discover an interest in stories. Folktales have been passed down through oral tradition, refined over time making it easier to remember and pass onto another person. They can help children develop critical reading skills, vocabulary, and comprehension. The can…

            The essay “Universality of the Folklore” is an excerpt from Stith Thompson’s book, The Folktale, a text which tackles the subject of folk tales around the world, their importance to societies and the various types of tales that exist. Thompson is America’s foremost scholar in folklore, having devoted most of his professional life in…

The Chunhyang tale, based on a Korean love folktale in the early 18th century, similar to “Romeo and Juliet”, is portrayed in various versions, a pansori, a film, a novel, and a manga. Chunhyang, the beautiful, sharp-witted, talented daughter of a courtesan shows strong resistance to authoritarian powers and represents a female role model of…

The poem “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie is originally a seven stanza poem that is often cut short in the recorded versions known to many. The poem’s main element is imagery of America’s landmarks to exorcise an emotion out of the reader. The first four stanzas have a much more celebratory tone…

The Elves and the Shoemaker Fairy Tales: are about fanciful characters with extraordinary power such as elves gnomes, trolls, globins, monsters, dragons, fairies, elves and animal talking. Author: Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, from Germany Examples of Most famous Fairy Tales of Brother Grimm (Rumpelstiltskin”, “Snow White”, “Rapunzel”, “Cinderella”, “Hansel and Gretel”, and “The…

The first example of a negative superstition takes place at Hannibal, Missouri when Huck flicks a spider off his shoulder and it gets burned in a candle’s flame. That was a sign of bad luck, so Huck counteracts the bad luck by turning around three times and then he ties a lock of hair with…

Euhemerization is a process that human being figuratively changes into a god with time while reverse euhemerization according to Chinese scholars, is a procedure through which a mythological creature or god changes to a historical figure, believed to have existed before. Reverse euhemerization happens to people occupied with history than mythology. Euhemerization is a theory…